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Bombers bits

• Jeter has 3,308 career hits, placing him five hits shy of tying Eddie Collins (3,313) for ninth place on baseball's all-time list. Jeter is also 11 hits away from tying Paul Molitor (3,319) for eighth place all time.

• On this date in 1959, Yogi Berra connected for his first and only All-Star Game home run, taking the Dodgers' Don Drysdale deep in a 5-3 American League win at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

Bryan Hoch is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @bryanhoch and read his MLBlog, Bombers Beat.
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