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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 (70-66) vs. BOSTON RED SOX (61-77) Standing in AL East: .............2nd, -9.5 RHP Hiroki Kuroda (9-8, 3.88) vs. RHP Anthony Ranaudo (3-0, 4.50) Games Behind for Second WC ....... -5.0 Current Streak: .....................Lost 3 Wednesday, September 3, 2014 • Yankee Stadium • 7:05 P.M. ET Home Record: .............33-32 (46-35) Road Record:. 37-34 (44-37) Game #137 • Home Game #66 • TV: YES/ESPN • Radio: WFAN 660AM/101.9FM Day Record: ................28-19 (32-24) Night Record: ..............42-47 (53-53) AT A GLANCE: Tonight the Yankees play the second game of O CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN: The Yankees will hold a special pregame Pre-All-Star .................47-47 (51-44) a three-game series vs. Boston…is also the second game of a Post-All-Star ................23-19 (34-33) ceremony for Derek Jeter on Sunday…all fans are encouraged vs. AL East: ................. 24-29 (37-39) nine-game homestand, which also features games vs. Kansas to be in their seats by noon… those in attendance will receive a vs. AL Central: .............. 18-14 (22-11) City (9/5-7) and Tampa Bay (9/9-11)… went 3-4 on their last limited-edition commemorative coin recognizing the occasion. vs. AL West: ................ 15-16 (17-16) road trip from 8/25-31 (1-0 at Kansas City, 1-2 at Detroit and 1-2 As part of the day’s celebration, the Yankees will vs. National League: ..........13-7 (9-11) at Toronto) … following this homestand, will embark on a six- wear a patch depicting Jeter’s final season logo on vs. RH starters: ............. 49-46 (53-54) game road trip at Baltimore (9/12-14) and Tampa Bay (9/15-17). the left sleeve of their uniform and cap. The patch will vs. LH starters: .............. 21-20 (32-23) Have lost their last three games and four of their last be worn by the team from September 7 through the Yankees Score First: ........41-21 (53-21) five… however they are 7-5 since 8/21 and 9-7 since 8/16. Opp. Score First:. 29-45 (32-56) end of the 2014 season. Are 4G above .500, which is 3G shy of their season-high Leading After 6: ..............56-10 (59-6) Trailing After 6: ...............5-44 (13-62) watermark of 7G over (last reached at close of play on 8/29). ROLL CALL: The Yankees have used 55 players this season (P-32, Tied After 6: ...................8-11 (13-9) Are 23-19 (.548) since the All-Star break, tied for fourth- C-4, INF-11, OF-8), the second-highest total in franchise history Leading After 7: ...............56-5 (65-4) best in the AL and tied for seventh-best in the Majors. (56 in 2013) and the second-highest total in the Majors this Trailing After 7: .............. 3-49 (10-64) season (Texas-61)… 30 players made their debut with the team Tied After 7: ..................10-11 (10-8) YESTERDAY’S NEWS: On Tuesday, the Yankees dropped their in 2014… eight of those made their MLB debuts (Anna, Greene, Leading After 8: ...............58-2 (69-4) series opener to Boston, 9-4, at Yankee Stadium… trailed 7-1 Mitchell, Ramirez, Solarte, Tanaka, Wheeler and Whitley). Trailing After 8: ............... 3-52 (4-68) after four innings… Yankees batters were outhit, 12-7… RHP Tied After 8: ...................8-11 (12-4) Shane Greene started and took the loss, allowing 6ER in 2.2IP Extra-Inning Games: .............7-6 (6-6) JUST TOSSING IT OUT THERE: The Yankees have had 33 (6H, 3BB, 3K, 2HR, 1HP)… 2B Martin Prado (2-for-3) hit a One-run Games: ...........21-18 (30-16) players pitch this season (including INF Dean Anna on 4/19 at Two (or fewer)-run Games: 42-30 (50-30) solo-HR in the third… C Francisco Cervelli (0-for-2) drove in Tampa Bay), setting the single-season franchise high (had 28 a run on a bases loaded walk in the fifth… SS Derek Jeter (1- NYY Scores 5 or more: .......38-10 (51-7) pitchers in 2011, 2007 and 2005)… it is the second-highest NYY Scores 4 or more: .....53-18 (66-16) for-4) had an RBI-single in the fifth… LF Brett Gardner (0-for-3) total in the Majors this season, trailing only Texas (38). NYY Scores 3 or less: ....... 17-48 (19-61) was ejected by HP umpire Tim Timmons in the fifth for arguing NYY Scores 2 or less: ..........7-36 (6-50) a called strike three, marking Gardner’s third career ejection… C HOMER HAPPY: The Yankees have 44HR since the All-Star break, Opp. Scores 5 or more:. 6-43 (12-47) Brian McCann (2-for-4) hit a solo-HR in the ninth… b2B Stephen third in the AL and tied for sixth in the Majors over the stretch. Opp. Scores 4 or less: ...... 64-23 (73-30) Drew (0-for-1) played in his 1,000th career game… PH Chris Opp. Scores 3 or less: ...... 53-12 (55-22) Young (0-for-1) and RHP Chaz Roe (1.0IP, 2H, 2R/1ER, 2BB, 2K) DOUBLE TROUBLE: SS Derek Jeter recorded his 539th career Opp. Scores 2 or less: ....... 36-5 (40-10) made their Yankees debuts in the ninth inning. Yankees No Errors: ......... 47-37 (61-47) double in Wednesday’s win vs. Detroit, tying Al Simmons for 34th Yankees Make Error(s):. 23-29 (24-30) place on Baseball’s all-time list … needs 1 double to tie boyhood NYY Starter Goes 6: ........ 50-36 (62-45) YEAR IN REVIEW: Of the 25 calls Manager Joe Girardi has idol Dave Winfield (540) and Joe Medwick for 32nd place. Come-From-Behind Wins: ........33 (41) challenged this season, 20 have been overturned in the Yankees’ Yankees hit 0HR: ...........24-28 (26-49) favor, marking the best success rate in MLB (80%)…the Yankees GIVING THEM ELL: In his last 13G (since 8/19), CF Jacoby Yankees hit at least 1HR:. 46-38 (59-28) have had calls successfully overturned in each of their last seven Ellsbury is batting .420 (21-for-50) with 8R, 2 doubles, 1 triple, Yankees hit 2+ HRs: ..........13-17 (31-8) challenges (since 7/29) and in 11 of their last 12 (since 6/6). 4HR, 11RBI and 6SB. Walk-off Wins: ........................5 (7) Walk-off Losses: ......................6 (6) On Tuesday was named AL Player of the Week for the period Series Record: .......... 19-23-4 (23-24-6) CLOTHES HORSES: SS Derek Jeter has played in 2,724G with ending 8/31… batted .522 (12-for-23) with 6R, 1 double, 1 Series Record, home: ... 9-13-0 (13-10-3) the Yankees for ninth place on the all-time list of players who triple, 4HR, 9RBI and 2SB over six games… marks his second Series Record, road: .... 10-10-4 (10-14-3) have played all of their games with one team… with 6G played, career POW award (also 6/12/11 w/ Boston)…marks the Sweeps by NYY/ by Opp.:. 7 (9) / 5 (7) will tie the Giants’ Mel Ott (2,730G) for eighth-place all time. Yankees’ third POW Award this season (also Carlos Beltran, week ending 4/13; and Brett Gardner, week ending 8/3). ONLY ON YES: Immediately following tonight’s Yankees-Red Had at least 1RBI in five straight games from 8/25-29, TODAY IN YANKEES HISTORY Sox post-game show, the YES Network will premiere Aaron marking the longest RBI streak of his career and the longest Sept. 3, 1995: Tony Fernandez Boone Yankeeography: Moments of Glory which focuses by a Yankee this season according to the Elias Sports Bureau. becomes the 10th Yankee to hit for on Boone’s 11th-inning, 2003 ALCS Game 7 game-winning the cycle in a 10-9, 10-inning loss vs. HR which sent the Yankees to the World Series… the special IN CONTROL: Entering today’s game, Yankees pitchers Oakland. Fernandez completes the own the second-highest strikeout-to-walk ratio in modern cycle with a leadoff double in the features footage from the game along with interviews with bottom of the ninth and comes around Boone, Willie Randolph, Joe Torre, Mike Mussina, Tim Wakefield, MLB history (since 1900), according to the Elias Sports to score the tying run. Kevin Millar, David Wells and Jorge Posada. Bureau… have a 3.39 K/BB ratio (1,149K, 339BB), trailing only TOMORROW IN YANKEES HISTORY the 2014 Nationals’ 3.50 (1,091K, 312BB). Sept. 4, 1993: Jim Abbott becomes OFF BASE: RHP Dellin Betances has struck out 120 batters and just the third Yankees left-hander to allowed just 40H in 80.0IP this season, averaging 4.50H/9.0IP PRADO OF THE YANKEES: Over his last 16 games since 8/16, throw a no-hitter, beating the Indians and 13.50K/9.0IP… both ratios are the best in the Majors INF/OF Martin Prado is batting .381 (24-for-63) with 12R, 4-0 at Yankee Stadium. It marked only among pitchers with at least 75.0IP. 4HR, 11RBI and one “walk-off” hit (on 8/22 vs.