Official Game Information Yankee Stadium • One East 161st Street • Bronx, NY 10451 Phone: (718) 579-4460 • E-mail: [email protected] • Twitter: @yankeespr & @losyankeespr World Series Champions: 1923, ’27-28, ’32, ’36-39, ’41, ’43, ’47, ’49-53, ’56, ’58, ’61-62, ’77-78, ’96, ’98-2000, ’09 YANKEES BY THE NUMBERS NOTE 2014 (2013) NEW YORK YANKEES (9-6) at TAMPA BAY RAYS (7-8) Standing in AL East: ..............1st, +0.5 Current Streak: .................... Won 4 LHP CC Sabathia (1-2, 6.63) vs. LHP David Price (2-0, 2.91) Home Record: ................6-3 (46-35) Road Record:. 3-3 (44-37) Thursday, April 17 • Tropicana Field • 7:10 P.M. ET Day Record: ...................4-2 (32-24) Night Record: .................5-4 (53-53) Game #16 • Road Game #7 • TV: YES • Radio: WFAN 660AM/101.9FM Pre-All-Star ....................9-6 (51-44) Post-All-Star ...................0-0 (34-33) vs. AL East: ................... 6-4 (37-39) AT A GLANCE: Tonight the Yankees begin a seven-game, eight- YARD WORK: Yankees batters homered in seven straight vs. AL Central: ................ 0-0 (22-11) day road trip at Tampa Bay (Thurs.-Sun.) and Boston (4/22- games from 4/8-4/16G1 (13HR total), marking their longest vs. AL West: .................. 1-2 (17-16) vs. National League: ...........2-0 (9-11) 24)… completed a 6-3 homestand on Wednesday by sweeping such streak since 4/13-22/13 (9G). vs. RH starters: ............... 6-4 (53-54) a doubleheader from the Cubs (also went 1-2 vs. Baltimore and Tallied just 1HR in their first 7G of the season (4/1-7). vs. LH starters: ................ 3-2 (32-23) 3-1 vs. Boston)… after this road trip, return home for a nine- Yankees Score First: ...........7-1 (53-21) Opp. Score First:. 2-5 (32-56) game, 10-day homestand vs. Los Angeles-AL (4/25-27), vs. FIRST IMPRESSIONS: On Wednesday, the Cubs became Leading After 6: ................9-0 (59-6) Seattle (4/29-5/1) and vs. Tampa Bay (5/2-4). the 25th different opponent to play in the current Yankee Trailing After 6: ................0-5 (13-62) Are 9-4 in their last 13 games after dropping their first two Tied After 6: ....................0-1 (13-9) Stadium…the Yankees are 20-5 in an opponent’s first-ever Leading After 7: ................9-0 (65-4) games of the season at Houston. game at the current Yankee Stadium since 2009, winning all Trailing After 7: ............... 0-5 (10-64) Are 9-0 this season when leading after six innings and 0-6 three such contests in 2013—4/16 vs. Arizona (4-2), 6/19 Game Tied After 7: ....................0-1 (10-8) Leading After 8: ................9-0 (69-4) when tied or trailing after six innings. 1 vs. Los Angeles-NL (6-4) and 9/20 vs. San Francisco (5-1). Trailing After 8: ................. 0-5 (4-68) Have started each of the last four years (2011-14) w/ a 9-6 Tied After 8: ....................0-1 (12-4) record… also began each year from 2011-13 w/ a 10-6 mark. STARTING BLOCKS: With 7SB this season, CF Jacoby Ellsbury Extra-Inning Games: .............0-0 (6-6) One-run Games: ..............1-1 (30-16) Will play 18 of their first 31 games at home. leads the AL and is tied for third in the Majors (Dee Gordon-10, Two (or fewer)-run Games: ........5-3 (50-30) Eric Young-9, Emilio Bonifacio-7)… is fourth in the AL and tops Yankees pitchers have averaged 8.86 K/9.0IP (third-best in NYY Scores 5 or more: .........3-1 (51-7) among Yankees qualifiers in batting average (.353, 18-for-51). NYY Scores 4 or more: ........6-2 (66-16) AL, fifth-best in Majors) and 2.25 BB/9.0IP (tops in AL, third- NYY Scores 3 or less: ......... 3-4 (19-61) best in Majors) this season. NYY Scores 2 or less: ...........1-4 (6-50) Over the last six games, Yankees relievers have tossed BOTTOMS UP: Yankees 7-9 batters have combined to bat .296 Opp. Scores 5 or more:. .1-2 (12-47) (44-for-155) with 19R, 10 doubles, 4HR, 17RBI and 14BB in 2014. Opp. Scores 4 or less: ........ 9-3 (73-30) 13.1 scoreless IP (6H, 4BB, 19K, 2HP), holding batters to a Opp. Scores 3 or less: ........ 7-1 (55-22) .133 (6-for-45, 5 singles, 1 double) batting average. Opp. Scores 2 or less: ........ 6-0 (40-10) SECOND TIME’S A CHARM: According to the Elias Sports Yankees No Errors: ........... 7-3 (61-47) Bureau, OF Alfonso Soriano has 20HR and 54RBI in 72G since Yankees Make Error(s):. 2-3 (24-30) YESTERDAY’S NEWS: On Wednesday, the Yankees swept rejoining the Yankees on 7/26/13, marking the most HR in NYY Starter Goes 6: .......... 8-5 (62-45) Chicago-NL in a doubleheader at Yankee Stadium, 3-0 and Come-From-Behind Wins: ......... 3 (41) the Majors over the stretch and tying for the third-most RBI C-F-B Wins (trailing by 3+):. 0 (11) 2-0… marked the first time that a Major League team had (Trumbo-58, Moss-55, Freeman and Holliday-54). C-F-B Wins (trailing by 4+):. 0 (1) recorded shutout wins in both games of a doubleheader since C-F-B Wins (trailing by 5+):. 0 (0) Minnesota won, 11-0 and 5-0, on 6/26/88 at Oakland… was the Yankees hit 0HR: ..............4-3 (26-49) NOTHING FOR FREE: Yankees starters have tallied just 10BB Yankees hit at least 1HR:. 5-3 (59-28) first time the Yankees had done so since 5-0 and 1-0 wins on over their last 12 starts since 4/4 at Toronto, having recorded Yankees hit 2+ HRs: ............1-2 (31-8) 4/19/87 vs. K.C.… are 16-1-18 in doubleheaders since 2000. 74K over the stretch. Walk-off Wins: ........................0 (7) IN GAME 1: The Yankees won despite tallying a season- Walk-off Losses: ......................0 (6) Series Record: ............ 3-2-0 (23-24-6) low 5H… RHP Masahiro Tanaka tossed 8.0 scoreless CHOOSING SIDES: This season Yankees LH hitters are batting Series Record, home: .....2-1-0 (13-10-3) innings to improve to 2-0 (2H, 1BB, 10K) in three starts… his Series Record, road: ...... 1-1-0 (10-14-3) .284 (94-for-331) with 19 doubles, 1 triple, 10HR, 39RBI, 32BB 2H surrendered were bunt singles… has struck out 28 Sweeps by Yankees: ..................1 (8) and a .347 OBP… Yankees RH hitters are batting .249 (42-for- batters in his first three career starts, surpassing Al Leiter 169) with 10 doubles, 4HR, 12RBI, 9BB and a .304 OBP. (25 in 1987) for the most by a Yankees pitcher through his first three MLB starts (credit:Elias )… became the first MADE IN JAPAN: The Yankees have three Japan-born TODAY IN YANKEES HISTORY Yankee to toss at least 8.0 scoreless innings, with at least players on their active roster: OF Ichiro Suzuki, RHP Hiroki 10K while allowing 2H-or-fewer since Randy Johnson on April 17, 1953: Mickey Mantle clears Kuroda and RHP Masahiro Tanaka… with Tanaka’s start the left-field wall at Washington’s 7/26/05 vs. Boston (8.0IP, 2H, 11K)… retired 14 straight on 4/4 at Toronto, the Yankees have now had seven Japan- Griffith Stadium with a 565-foot HR batters faced between singles by Lake in the second off Chuck Stobbs in the fifth inning born players in their history: Hideki Irabu (1997-99), Hideki inning and Rizzo in the seventh… RF Carlos Beltran (1- of a 7-3 Yankees win. Yankees PR rep Matsui (2003-09), Kei Igawa (2007-08), Hiroki Kuroda (2012- Red Patterson retrieves the ball and for-3) hit a solo-HR in the first, marking his third straight 14), Ryota Igarashi (2012), Ichiro Suzuki (2012-14) and Tanaka measures off the distance, giving birth game with a homer… SS Dean Anna (0-for-2) had a sac fly (2014)… with Tanaka and Kuroda, the Yankees have two to the phrase “tape-measure home run.” in the fourth…CF Jacoby Ellsbury (1-for-3, double, BB) had Japan-born pitchers in their starting rotation, becoming April 17, 1951: PA announcer Bob an RBI-groundout in the fifth… 3B Scott Sizemore (0-for- Sheppard and Mickey Mantle each the first team to do so since the Dodgers had starters Hideo 3) made his Yankees debut… RHP Shawn Kelley tossed a make their Major League debut during Nomo and Kazuhisa Ishii in 2004. a 5-0 win over the Red Sox. Mantle scoreless ninth for his fourth save (1.0IP, 1H, 1K). goes 1-for-4 with a sixth-inning single IN GAME 2: In pregame ceremonies, Nelson Mandela THE VOICE THAT LAUNCHED A THOUSAND HITS: Today off Boston’s Bill Wight. was honored with a plaque in Monument Park, marks the 63rd anniversary of the very first Major League game April 17, 1913: The Yankees play their commemorating his 6/21/90 visit to the original Yankee first home game at the Polo Grounds, worked by public address announcer Bob Sheppard at Yankee Stadium… the Yankees outhit the Cubs, 12-6… RHP losing 9-3 to Washington. It marks the Stadium in 1951 (4/17/51)… was also Mickey Mantle’s first Major Michael Pineda started and tossed 6.0 scoreless innings beginning of 10 consecutive seasons League game… Sheppard worked 121 consecutive postseason in which the Yankees call the Polo (4H, 1BB, 3K), earning the win to improve to 2-1 this contests, including 62 games in 22 World Series from 1951- Grounds their home.