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 (83-77) at BOSTON RED SOX (70-90) Standing in AL East: ............2nd, -12.0 Current Streak: .....................Won 2 RHP Masahiro Tanaka (13-4, 2.47) vs. RHP Joe Kelly (3-2, 4.00) Home Record: .............43-38 (46-35) Road Record:. 40-39 (44-37) Saturday, September 27, 2014 • Fenway Park • 1:05 p.m. ET Day Record: ................31-23 (32-24) Night Record: ..............52-54 (53-53) Game #161 • Road Game #80 • TV: FOX • Radio: WFAN 660AM/101.9FM Pre-All-Star .................47-47 (51-44) Post-All-Star ................36-30 (34-33) vs. AL East: ................. 36-38 (37-39) AT A GLANCE: Today at Boston, the Yankees play their second-to- MORE THAN HALF-FULL: With 83 wins this season, the vs. AL Central: .............. 19-16 (22-11) vs. AL West: ................ 15-16 (17-16) last game of the season… completed an eight-game homestand Yankees have clinched a winning record for the 22nd vs. National League: ..........13-7 (9-11) on Thursday, going 5-3 (3-1 vs. Toronto and 2-2 vs. Baltimore). consecutive year (1993-2014)… the current streak is the vs. RH starters: ............. 60-56 (53-54) vs. LH starters: .............. 24-20 (32-23) With Wednesday’s loss vs. Baltimore, the Yankees were second-longest such stretch in MLB history, trailing only Yankees Score First: ........46-25 (53-21) officially eliminated from postseason contention. their streak of 39 consecutive winning records from 1926-64. Opp. Score First:. 37-52 (32-56) Will finish the regular season with 21 games in 20 days Leading After 6: ..............66-10 (59-6) Trailing After 6: ...............7-52 (13-62) from 9/9-28 (are 10-9 thus far) HOME SWEET HOME: The Yankees have had 23 consecutive Tied After 6: ...................9-14 (13-9) Are 7-3 in their last 10 games. winning seasons at home from 1992-2014 (went 43-38 at Leading After 7: ...............67-5 (65-4) home in 2014)… according Elias, their current streak is the Trailing After 7: .............. 5-57 (10-64) Tied After 7: ..................10-14 (10-8) YESTERDAY’S NEWS: On Friday, the Yankees defeated Boston, third-longest such streak in Major League history, trailing Leading After 8: ...............68-2 (69-4) 3-2, at Fenway Park… entering the game, batters in the Yankees only the Yankees’ 47-year home winning streak from 1918- Trailing After 8: ............... 5-60 (4-68) starting lineup had just 2,370 total career games played and just 64 and the Pirates’ 24-year streak from 1892-1915. Tied After 8: ...................9-14 (12-4) Extra-Inning Games: .............7-7 (6-6) 493 combined career games as Yankees…LHP Chris Capuano Went 25-15 at home after the All-Star break, after going 18- One-run Games: ...........28-24 (30-16) allowed just one unearned run in 6.2IP (4H, 0BB, 5K), earning 23 at home prior to the All-Star break. Two (or fewer)-run Games: 49-37 (50-30) the win… 1B Francisco Cervelli (2-for-3, 2 singles, 1BB) batted NYY Scores 5 or more: .......47-11 (51-7) NYY Scores 4 or more: .....62-20 (66-16) third in the starting lineup for the first time in his career, reached YOUTH MOVEMENT: The Yankees have started a rookie pitcher NYY Scores 3 or less: ....... 21-57 (19-61) base safely three times, was the only Yankee with a multi-hit in 60G this season, the highest total in the Majors… are 37-23 in NYY Scores 2 or less: ..........7-43 (6-50) game and drove in the Yankees’ first run with a third-inning 2014 in games started by rookie pitchers, incl. 23-8 on the road. Opp. Scores 5 or more:. 8-48 (12-47) Opp. Scores 4 or less: ...... 75-29 (73-30) single… C John Ryan Murphy (1-for-4) had an RBI-groundout Yankees rookies are a combined 23-17 with a 3.67 ERA Opp. Scores 3 or less: ...... 62-17 (55-22) in the third and had the Yankees’ only extra-base hit (a double (350.1IP, 143ER) as starters this season. Opp. Scores 2 or less: ....... 44-9 (40-10) to lead off the sixth)… 3B Zelous Wheeler (0-for-3) drove in Yankees No Errors: ......... 55-43 (61-47) Yankees Make Error(s):. 28-34 (24-30) Murphy with a sac fly in the sixth… RHP Adam Warren tossed ROLL CALL: With OF Eury Perez making his Yankees debut NYY Starter Goes 6: ........ 59-40 (62-45) a perfect eighth (1.0IP, 2K)… RHP David Robertson tossed a on Wednesday vs. Baltimore, the club extended its franchise Come-From-Behind Wins: ........41 (41) scoreless ninth to record his 39th save in 44 save opportunities record with 58 players used in 2014 (P-32, C-4, INF-12, OF-10), Yankees hit 0HR: ...........28-34 (26-49) Yankees hit at least 1HR:. 55-43 (59-28) this season (1.0IP, 1H, 2K). surpassing their previous mark set in 2013 (56)… 33 players Yankees hit 2+ HRs: ..........17-19 (31-8) According to the Elias Sports Bureau, Friday marked the first have made their debut with the Yankees in 2014… nine of Walk-off Wins: ........................9 (7) game played between the Yankees and Red Sox in which those made their MLB debuts (Anna, Greene, Mitchell, Pirela, Walk-off Losses: ......................9 (6) Series Record: .......... 22-26-5 (23-24-6) both were already eliminated from playoff contention since Ramirez, Solarte, Tanaka, Wheeler and Whitley). Series Record, home: ..12-14-1 (13-10-3) the 1992 regular season finale (8-2 Boston win at Fenway). Series Record, road: .... 10-12-4 (10-14-3) CATCH-UP: C Brian McCann has hit 19 of his 23 home runs at Sweeps by NYY/ by Opp.:. 7 (9) / 5 (7) HOLLYWOOD ENDING: On Thursday, the Yankees won the Yankee Stadium and four on the road… has 8HR in September, final career home game ofSS Derek Jeter (2-for-5, 2R, 3RBI), his most in a calendar month since July 2012 (9HR)… his 23HR defeating the Orioles, 6-5, on his one-out, ninth-inning, “walk-off” are the most by a Yankees player whose primary position is TODAY IN YANKEES HISTORY single in front of a season-high, sellout crowd of 48,613… walso catcher since Jorge Posada hit 23HR in 2006… is 1HR shy of Sept. 27, 1998: The Yankees defeat had an RBI-double in the first and an RBI-groundout in the matching his single-season career high (24HR in 2011 and ‘06). Tampa Bay, 8-3, on the season’s final seventh… marked the seventh and final regular season “walk- day to improve to 114-48 (.704). They become the first team since the 1954 off” hit of his career (first since 6/8/07 vs. Pittsburgh)… according STARTING BLOCKS: Yankees starters have a 2.57 ERA (98.0IP, Indians (111-43, .721) to finish a season to Elias, was his first “walk-off” RBI since a ninth-inning fielder’s 28ER) in their last 16G (since 9/12)…recorded at least 5.0IP and with a winning pct. higher than .700. choice on 8/13/07 vs. Baltimore… all of the Yankees batters’ allowed 2ER or fewer in nine consecutive games from 9/12-19. TOMORROW IN YANKEES HISTORY walk-up songs were songs used by Jeter over the course of his Sept. 28, 2008: On the season’s last day career… RHP Hiroki Kuroda allowed solo HRs to the first two IN CONTROL: Entering today’s game, Yankees pitchers own in Game 1 of a doubleheader at Fenway batters of the game (Markakis and De Aza), but left the game the second-highest K-to-BB ratio in modern MLB history (since Park, Mike Mussina records his 20th win, with a 5-2 lead after 8.0IP (3H, 0BB, 9K)… RHP David Robertson 1900), according to the Elias Sports Bureau… have a 3.42K/ becoming the oldest pitcher in MLB was credited with the win despite blowing the save and allowing BB ratio (1,346K, 393BB), trailing only the 2014 Nationals’ 3.64 history to win 20 games for the first time. 3ER in the ninth on a two-run-HR by Adam Jones and a solo-HR (1,269K, 349BB)… their 1,346K this season are a single-season Sept. 28, 1968: Mickey Mantle plays his final career game, starting for the by Steve Pearce (1.0IP, 2H, 1BB, 2K, 2HR)… DH Jose Pirela (2-for- franchise high (surpassing 1,318K in 2012K). Yankees at Boston’s Fenway Park. 4) led off the ninth with a single… was then substituted by PR Hitting third, he bats in the top of the Antoan Richardson, who moved to second base on a sac bunt THE BRONX BOMBERS: According to research performed first and pops out to Red Sox shortstop by OF Brett Gardner (1-for-4) and scored on Jeter’s hit. by the Elias Sports Bureau, the Yankees have hit 15,006 HRs Rico Petrocelli before being replaced in the field at 1B by Andy Kosco. Was the most-viewed game telecast to this point in the in franchise history (since 1903)…on 9/21 vs.