Regular Season Game 30: Yankees @ Red Sox

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Here are the lineups:

YANKEES (21-8)
Derek Jeter SS
Nick Swisher RF
Mark Teixeira 1B
Alex Rodriguez 3B
Robinson Cano 2B
Jorge Posada DH
Marcus Thames LF
Francisco Cervelli C
Brett Gardner CF

Pitching: RHP A.J. Burnett (4-0, 1.99 ERA)

RED SOX (15-16)
Marco Scutaro SS
Dustin Pedroia 2B
Victor Martinez C
Kevin Youkilis 1B
J. D. Drew RF
David Ortiz DH
Adrian Beltre 3B
Jeremy Hermida LF
Darnell McDonald CF

Pitching: LHP Jon Lester (2-2. 3.93 ERA)

Yankees vs. Lester

ABH2B3BHRRBIBBSOBAOBPSLGOPSD. Jeter2710000228.370.414.370.784R. Cano236200214.261.280.348.628A. Rodriguez195202513.263.300.684.984M. Teixeira174001205.235.235.412.647N. Swisher163201346.188.364.500.864J. Posada153000025.200.294.200.494M. Thames31001211.333.5001.3331.833Totals12032605161132.267.328.442.770Red Sox vs. Burnett

ABH2B3BHRRBIBBSOBAOBPSLGOPSD. Ortiz3694038112.250.270.611.881K. Youkilis297001647.241.343.345.688A. Beltre288401524.286.333.536.869J.D. Drew287300457.250.364.357.721D. Pedroia288002492.286.459.500.959J. Varitek245201629.208.296.417.713M. Scutaro216100021.286.348.333.681M. Lowell204100034.200.304.250.554V. Martinez196201361.316.500.5791.079B. Hall112200125.182.308.364.671J. Hermida20000011.000.333.000.333Totals246621909373753.252.355.439.794Data provided by Elias Sports Bureau via ESPN

News & Notes

- Not Yankee related, but I guess A-Rod was wrong about Dallas Braden's 15 minutes being up. Today, Braden threw a perfect game against the Rays. Now, he's clearly a douchebag, but let's be happy for him on this day. Braden lost his mother to cancer when he was a senior in high school, and throwing a perfect game on Mother's Day has to be very special for him.

- Coming into tonight the Yankees have won six in a row and nine of their last ten.

- Yesterday's three home run game for Mark Teixeira was only the second in Yankees history against the Red Sox. The first was Lou Gehrig all the way back on June 23, 1927.

- A.J. Burnett has made 13 starts against the Red Sox in his career, and is 5-2, with a 4.30 ERA. Those numbers were a lot more impressive prior to becoming a Yankee, when he was 5-0, with a 2.56 ERA against Boston. Since then, he's 0-2, with an ERA of 8.17. In his only start against the Red Sox this year, he went 5 innings, and allowed 4 runs (3 earned) on 7 hits, walked 1, and struck out 5 in a no decision. He's 3-2, with a 5.36 ERA in Fenway.

- In 9 starts against the Yankees, Jon Lester is 3-1, with a 4.19 ERA. He faced them on April 6th of this year, and allowed 4 runs on 5 hits in 5 innings, and got a no decision. The Yankees eventually won the game 6-4.

- The Yankees have won 4 of the 5 games (all in Fenway) against the Red Sox this year.

- Click on the team name for the Yankees or Red Sox 2010 batting stats.

- Like always, the chat room in the forums is open. If you can spare a few minutes don't forget to come sign up for the forums.

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Fenway Continues To Be House Of Horrors For A.J.

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It wasn't always this way. Prior to coming to the Yankees, A.J. Burnett was 3-0, with a 0.40 ERA in Fenway. But since the beginning of 2009 he's 0-3, with an ERA of 12.68. His latest Fenway meltdown came yesterday afternoon when he gave up 9 runs (8 earned) on 9 hits over 4.1 innings in a 9-3 Yankees loss. As he would later admit, he didn't have a good feel of his fastball and it cost him.

“I had a good hook tonight, but I didn’t have a good heater,” Burnett said after the game. “I had a good fastball early but after that, everything was up. .... They all went where they weren’t supposed to go.”

By the end of the third, the poor command of that fastball had led to a 6-0 Red Sox lead.

The Yankees would get two back in the top of the fourth on solo homers by Nick Swisher and Alex Rodriguez. A-Rod's homer was the 586th of his career, tying him for 7th all-time with Frank Robinson.

With the Yankees now down by only four, Burnett had a chance to redeem himself a little if he could just keep the Sox off the board and give the Yanks a chance to come back. But that didn't happen. Burnett gave a run right back in the bottom half of the fourth when he gave up a two-out RBI double to Kevin Youkilis. Boston would add two more in the fifth on a two-run homer by Jeremy Hermida. Hermida was the last batter Burnett faced.

Jon Lester was much better for Boston. The two solo homers would be all the Yanks would score off the Boston lefty, who allowed just 4 hits and 2 walks, while striking out 7 in 7 innings pitched.

The Yankees scored a third run on a Robinson Cano RBI single off Manny Delcarmen in the 8th, but they never got any major rallies going.



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The Yankees picked up their six straight win last night, getting five RBI from Francisco Cervelli and three home runs from Mark Teixeira. Filling in for one of several injured Yankees, the backup Cervelli has been outstanding with nine hits in his past four starts behind the plate.

As Sam wrote, though, much of the win centered on Teixeira’s on-going return to form after a rough first month.

Much of the past week has centered on the Yankees sudden string of injuries, including Nick Johnson who was put on the disabled list yesterday. The notebook also has items on Jorge Posada, Kevin Russo, Phil Hughes and Alfredo Aceves.

For the Sunday baseball page, I wrote that Brian Cashman’s December trades are so far working out to a definite disadvantage for the Yankees.

Tags: Francisco Cervelli, Jorge Posada, Mark Teixeira, Nick Johnson

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Game #30: Yankees at Red Sox. With a win, Bombers can take sole possession of first place

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Game 29: Yankees at Red Sox

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YANKEES (20-8)
Derek Jeter SS
Brett Gardner CF
Mark Teixeira 1B
Alex Rodriguez 3B
Robinson Cano DH
Nick Swisher RF
Randy Winn LF
Francisco Cervelli C
Ramiro Pena 2B

LHP CC Sabathia (4-1, 2.74))
Career vs. Red Sox

RED SOX (15-15)
Marco Scutaro SS
Dustin Pedroia 2B
Victor Martinez C
Kevin Youkilis 1B
Mike Lowell DH
J.D. Drew RF
Adrian Beltre 3B
Bill Hall LF
Darnell McDonald CF

RHP Clay Buchholz (3-2, 2.97)
Career vs. Yankees

TIME/TV: 3:10 p.m./FOX

UMPIRES: HP Adrian Johnson, 1B Tim McClelland, 2B Mike Everitt, 3B Andy Fletcher

WEATHER: Rainy and a little bit chilly, though the temperature is supposed to rise a little bit during the game and the rain seems to have pretty much stopped. It’s a pretty hit or miss kind of day.

A GOOD CATCH: Jorge Posada and Francisco Cervelli have combined for a .337 average while playing the catcher position. That’s the best average of any catching-combo in the American League and it’s fractionally behind the Cubs — also a .337 average — for the best in the majors.

THE NUMBERS GAME: Joe Girardi got rid of the number 27 this spring, but it’s been passed on to a pair of call-ups. First Greg Golson had the number, now Kevin Russo is wearing it.

GOOD COMPANY: At 23-years-old, Phil Hughes is the youngest Yankees starter to win his first four decision since 21-year-old Whitey Ford began the 1950 season with a 9-0 record.

UPDATE, 3:24 p.m.: Sorry about my mistake in the previous post. Sam was there for the Cashman interview about Johnson. He called up to the press box to tell me what was said, and I wrote the wrong thing when I typed it into the blog. Johnson has an inflamed tendon, not torn. That’s my bad.

UPDATE, 3:53 p.m.: Look at Ramiro Pena hitting like Robinson Cano. Lead-off double to the monster.

UPDATE, 4:01 p.m.: Isn’t it nice when the Nos. 3 and 4 hitters drive in runs? RBI singles from Teixeira and Rodriguez have given the Yankees a 2-0 lead.

UPDATE, 4:10 p.m.: I’ve watched Darnell McDonald play a whole lot of baseball in Triple-A. He’s not a star player, but he’s not a bad player either. His home run pulled the Red Sox within 2-1.

UPDATE, 4:12 p.m.: Francisco Cervelli was setup inside, but that still looked like a purpose pitch to Pedroia.

UPDATE, 4:16 p.m.: I can’t say for certain that Sabathia meant to hit Pedroia, but I know it just came back to hurt him. Martinez’s two-run home run has put the Red Sox in front 3-2.

UPDATE, 4:32 p.m.: Another big hit by Cervelli, who just tied the game with a single to center. He would have given the Yankees a lead, but McDonald made a good throw and Martinez did a great job blocking the plate to keep Randy Winn from scoring. It’s now a 3-3 game.

UPDATE, 4:51 p.m.: First pitch swinging, Mark Teixeira just went deep to give the Yankees a 4-3 lead.

UPDATE, 5:03 p.m.: Gazoo! Two-run single by Francisco Cervelli has put the Yankees in front 6-3. Randy Winn was thrown out between second and third, but that’s still a potentially huge swing in the game.

UPDATE, 5:17 p.m.: One strike from an official game and we’re officially in a rain delay. The sky just opened up like you wouldn’t believe. Nothing falling one moment. Absolute downpour the next. The Yankees are up 6-3 with two outs in the top of the fifth. Marco Scutaro is at first and Victor Martinez is at the plate with a 2-2 count. When the umps called for a delay, Sabathia stood on the mound and Cervelli stayed in his crouch for an extra second or two in obvious shock. Don’t get me wrong, it’s pouring, but that did seem like an odd time to make the call.

UPDATE, 5:41 p.m.: The rain has died down. It looks like they’ll be able to keep playing. No word yet on whether Sabathia will stay in the game.

UPDATE, 6:02 p.m.: Here comes the grounds crew. Looks like we could be close to getting started. Unless they’re just dumping the tarp.

UPDATE, 6:04 p.m.: Scheduled to re-start at 6:20.

UPDATE, 6:19 p.m.: Alfredo Aceves is getting loose in the bullpen. Looks like he’ll be the guy on the mound for the Yankees.

UPDATE, 6:25 p.m.: Little later than promised, we’re playing again. One hour and 14 minutes on the delay.

UPDATE, 6:37 p.m.: Have to give him credit. That was quite the turn by Pedroia.

UPDATE, 6:51 p.m.: Alfredo Aceves is the latest Yankee to go down with an injury. This has gotten absurd.

UPDATE, 7:16 p.m.: Teixeira hits his second home run of the season, then Swisher singles in Rodriguez. It’s now 8-3 Yankees. We could see Romulo Sanchez tonight.

UPDATE, 7:27 p.m.: Aceves has a stiff lower back. That’s a lingering problem for him. Doesn’t sound good.

UPDATE, 7:32 p.m.: For a while Dave Robertson was having a solid season with numbers exaggerated by a few really bad outings. At this point, though, he’s clearly struggling. Joba Chamberlain is in to face the middle of the order with one out and runners at first and second.

UPDATE, 8:00 p.m.: The Red Sox have outfielder Jonathan Van Every getting loose in their bullpen. It’s reached that point.

UPDATE, 8:03 p.m.: Kevin Russo in for his major league debut. He’s at second and Ramiro Pena has moved to third.

Tags: CC Sabathia, Clay Buchholz, Francisco Cervelli, Greg Golson, Jorge Posada, Kevin Russo, Phil Hughes

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Yankees win their sixth straight

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The Yankees rolled to their sixth straight win tonight, beating the Red Sox 14-3 behind three home runs from Mark Teixeira and five RBI from Francisco Cervelli. Teixeira’s final home run came off Red Sox outfielder Jonathan Van Every, but his second was a solo blast that gave the Yankees the lead for good. The bad news was Alfredo Aceves, who left the game because of a stiff lower back, continuing the trend of recent Yankees injuries. Aceves was credited with the win.

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