POSTGAME NOTES

New York 8, Kansas City 1 4 Monday, August 25, 2014 R H E LOB New York (68-61) 8 13 0 6 Starting Pitcher : Michael Pineda (96/70) Kansas City (72-58) 1 7 1 5 Starting Pitcher : James Shields (110/68)

WP: Michael Pineda (3-2) LP: James Shields (12-7) SV: None Time: 3:02 Temp: 94 Attendance: 31,758 Recap (Season Total • Inning • Runners on Base • Count • Distance • Pitcher) KANSAS CITY NEW YORK (15 • 3 • 0 • 1-1 • 401 ft. • Pineda) (6 • 4 • 0 • 3-2 • 346 ft. • Shields) Martin Prado (4 • 7 • 0 • 1-1 • 397 ft. • Shields) Jacoby Ellsbury (11 • 9 • 1 • 0-0 • 341 ft. • Bueno)

Attendance Comparison Dates Total Average 2014 62 1,463,061 23,598 2013 62 1,362,878 21,982 Difference - 100,183 1,616

Kansas City Royals Notes 4Kansas City allowed at least three home runs for the ninth time this season and first since surrendering three onAugust 17 at Minnesota. 4James Shields (6.2 IP, 10 H, 6 R, 6 ER, 3 BB, 3 SO, 2 HR) surrendered two home runs in a game for the seventh time this season, tied for the second most such games in the Majors with John Danks of the White Sox and Mike Minor of the Braves and trailing only Marco Estrada (9) of the Brewers...allowed at least 10 hits for the third time this season and first since yielding 10 on June 15 at Chicago-AL...gave up six runs for the first time since allowing seven on June 3 at St. Louis. 4Jarrod Dyson recorded his 20th infield of the season in the first inning...he entered Monday tied for ninth in theAmerican League in infield hits. 4Alex Gordon played in his 1,000th game in a Royals uniform tonight, the 10th player in franchise history to reach that milestone. 4Mike Moustakas has now hit in a season-high six games, batting 7-for-19 with a walk and three runs scored over that stretch.

New York Yankees Notes 4New York homered at least three times in a game for the seventh time this season and first since also homering three times on July 9 at Cleveland. 4Michael Pineda (6.1 IP, 5 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 5 SO, 1 HR) allowed one or no runs for the fifth time this season and second since coming off the disabled list and starting at Baltimore on August 13 (5.0 IP, 1 R) 4Stephen Drew homered for the second time since joining the Yankees (also August 20 vs. Houston off Scott Feldman)...his last nine home runs have come against righties, dating back to September 1, 2013...is now batting .500 (7-for-14) with a homer and two doubles off of James Shields in his career. 4Jacob Ellsbury tallied his 1,000th career hit with his RBI in the seventh inning...registered his 40th multi-hit game of the season and 13th game with three or more hits. 4Ichiro Suzuki recorded his 124th infield single since the start of 2011, tops in the Major. 4With one out, Brian McCann up and runners on first and third base, managerJoe Girardi challenged the play at the plate in which Jacoby Ellsbury was called out. The call was overturned, and Ellsbury was ruled safe. The replay review took 2 minutes.