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 NEW YORK (AP) - Back at Yankee Stadium and playing under the glowering eye of their impatient owner, Mike Mussina and the New York Yankees looked every bit the dominant team they are expected to be.
Mussina pitched a five-hitter, Hideki Matsui homered, and the Yankees beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 9-0 in the teams' first meeting since the memorable 1960 World Series.
With George Steinbrenner watching from his private box, the Yankees put on a performance worthy of their $205 million payroll — nearly $168 million more than the Pirates — and one much crisper than their just-completed 3-9 road trip that manager Joe Torre called "terrible."
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