Sergei Gonchar, Dmitri Khristich, Ulf Dahlen and Adam Oates also scored for Washington, which had surrendered 15 goals in its last three games.
Most of the Teutonic Order's territory, however, including towns which had surrendered, remained intact.
Brothers had also been captured: the corvette Sylphe had separated during the chase and rapidly overhauled the lumbering merchant ship, which had surrendered without a fight.
It was the third straight game in which Sabathia has surrendered a lead, and the Yankees have lost all three.
This was the seventh game in which he has surrendered two or fewer earned runs and come away with a loss or a no-decision.
After a long, self-imposed exile, during which he has surrendered his Hungarian citizenship, a man returns to face a childhood friend, a retired general whose wife he tried to steal forty years earlier.
Pettitte, who threw 38 pitches in the inning, is 0-3 over his last four starts, in which he has surrendered 43 hits and 23 earned runs in 24 innings.
KURT VONNEGUT wrote that: "In every big transaction, there is a magic moment during which a man has surrendered a treasure, and during which the man who is due to receive it has not yet done so.
During a year in which Mr. Clinton has surrendered the political stage to his vice president and to his wife -- only grudgingly, his friends and advisers say -- the event tonight was a prime-time reminder of how the president dominates his party as a political and oratorical force.
Vazquez has surrendered 26 homers, which is tied for fourth worst in the American League.
