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 (59-54) vs. DETROIT TIGERS (62-49) Standing in AL East: ..............3rd, -5.0 Current Streak: .....................Won 1 RHP Shane Greene (2-1, 3.68) vs. RHP Rick Porcello (13-5, 3.18) Home Record: .............27-27 (46-35) Road Record:. 32-27 (44-37) Thursday, August 7, 2014 • Yankee Stadium • 1:05 P.M. ET Day Record: ................22-14 (32-24) Night Record: ..............37-40 (53-53) Game #114 • Home Game #55 • TV: YES/MLBN • Radio: WFAN 660AM/101.9FM Pre-All-Star .................47-47 (51-44) Post-All-Star ..................12-7 (34-33) AT A GLANCE: Today the Yankees play the final game of a four- JETER METER: SS Derek Jeter has 3,429 career hits and needs vs. AL East: ................. 21-23 (37-39) vs. AL Central: .............. 11-10 (22-11) game series vs. Detroit… is also the fourth game of a seven- just 1H to tie Hall of Famer Honus Wagner (3,430) for sixth place vs. AL West: ................ 14-14 (17-16) game homestand (are 2-1 thus far) that includes three games on MLB’s all-time list. vs. National League: ..........13-7 (9-11) vs. Cleveland from Friday-Sunday… on Sunday, the Yankees Over his last 48G since 6/10, is hitting .301 (59-for-196) with vs. RH starters: ............. 44-37 (53-54) 20R, 7 doubles, 2HR and 18RBI. vs. LH starters: .............. 15-17 (32-23) completed a six-game road trip at Texas (1-2) and Boston (2- Yankees Score First: ........36-17 (53-21) 1)… after this homestand, will embark on a six-game road trip to Has 31 multi-hit games this season, tied with Brett Gardner Opp. Score First:. 23-37 (32-56) Baltimore (8/11-13) and Tampa Bay (8/15-17). for second-most on the team (Ellsbury-34). Leading After 6: ...............47-7 (59-6) The Yankees have won four of their last five games. Trailing After 6: ...............4-37 (13-62) CLOTHES HORSES: SS Derek Jeter has played 2,703 games Tied After 6: ....................7-9 (13-9) Each of the four best records in Major League Baseball Leading After 7: ...............47-4 (65-4) since the All-Star break belong to AL East teams (Tampa with the Yankees, ranking 10th on the all-time list of players who Trailing After 7: .............. 3-40 (10-64) Bay is 11-6, .647; and the Yankees, Baltimore and Toronto have played all of their games with one team… the players on the Tied After 7: ....................8-9 (10-8) list within reach for Jeter this season are the Royals’ George Brett Leading After 8: ...............49-2 (69-4) are all 12-7, .632). Trailing After 8: ............... 3-42 (4-68) (ninth-2,707G) and the Giants’ Mel Ott (eighth-2,730G). Tied After 8: ....................6-9 (12-4) YESTERDAY’S NEWS: On Wednesday, the Yankees defeated Extra-Inning Games: .............6-6 (6-6) Detroit, 5-1… the Tigers scored their lone run in the first TAKING IT FROM THE TOP: On Monday, LF Brett Gardner One-run Games: ...........18-16 (30-16) was named the AL “Player of the Week” for 7/28-8/3…batted Two (or fewer)-run Games: 37-26 (50-30) inning…LHP Chris Capuano started and allowed one NYY Scores 5 or more: .......32-10 (51-7) unearned run in 6.2IP in a no-decision (5H, 1BB, 8K, 1WP)… 3B .478 (11-for-23) with 8R, 3 doubles, 5HR, 7RBI and 5BB in 6G to NYY Scores 4 or more: .....45-16 (66-16) Chase Headley (2-for-4) put the Yankees on the board with capture his second career weekly honor (also 6/3-9/13). NYY Scores 3 or less: ....... 14-38 (19-61) Has an MLB-best 15HR while batting in the leadoff spot NYY Scores 2 or less: ..........6-29 (6-50) a solo-HR in the fifth…C Brian McCann (1-for-4, 2RBI) had a Opp. Scores 5 or more:. 5-36 (12-47) solo-HR in the seventh… the Yankees added 3R in the eighth, this season…has 44RBI while batting in the leadoff spot, Opp. Scores 4 or less: ...... 54-18 (73-30) scoring on an RBI-single by 1B Mark Teixeira (1-for-3) and trailing only Colorado’s Charlie Blackmon (53). Opp. Scores 3 or less: ....... 45-9 (55-22) an RBI-groundout by McCann, with Teixeira also scoring on Has 8HR over his last 30 games since 7/2… coming into Opp. Scores 2 or less: ....... 31-4 (40-10) this season, his single-season career high in HR (at any the play after a Detroit throwing error… RHP Adam Warren Yankees No Errors: ......... 39-27 (61-47) level of professional baseball) was 8HR. (1.1IP, 1BB, 1K) recorded the win… LHP David Huff tossed a Yankees Make Error(s):. 20-27 (24-30) NYY Starter Goes 6: ........ 41-28 (62-45) perfect ninth (1.0IP). Since 6/15, is batting .286 (46-for-161) with 10 doubles, 2 Come-From-Behind Wins: ........27 (41) triples, 11HR, 26RBI, 26BB and a .383 OBP in 45G… is tied Yankees hit 0HR: ...........21-23 (26-49) for seventh in the Majors in HR over the stretch. Yankees hit at least 1HR:. 38-31 (59-28) CLOSE CALLS: With a 5-1 victory over Detroit on Wednesday, Yankees hit 2+ HRs: ..........11-15 (31-8) the Yankees had their streak of 16 consecutive games Walk-off Wins: ........................3 (7) decided by two-or-fewer runs snapped (went 9-7 over that BEL-WEATHER: Since returning from the 7-day concussion Walk-off Losses: ......................5 (6) D.L. on 7/18, DH Carlos Beltran leads the Yankees with a .357 stretch)… according to the Elias Sports Bureau, it was tied for Series Record: .......... 15-18-4 (23-24-6) the third-longest streak of its kind in Major League history batting average (25-for-70) in 19G over the stretch… is batting Series Record, home: ... 7-11-0 (13-10-3) .327 (33-for-101) with 6HR and 17RBI in his last 27G (since Series Record, road: ...... 8-7-4 (10-14-3) behind an 18-game stretch by the 1968 Twins and a 17- Sweeps by NYY/ by Opp.:. 5 (9) / 4 (7) game span by the 1960 Phillies (the 1975 Orioles and 1916 6/29)… the Yankees are 33-23 with Beltran as the DH. Braves also had 16G streaks). Had his season-high 10G hitting streak snapped in The Yankees and Pirates are tied for the Majors’ best record in Monday’s win vs. Detroit… over the stretch from 7/24-8/3, games decided by two-or-fewer runs (both are 37-26, .587). batted .447 (17-for-38) with 3HR and 9RBI. Recorded multiple hits in six straight games from 7/28- TODAY IN YANKEES HISTORY 8/3, matching his career high (also 6G from 7/26-8/2/06). YOUNGSTOWN: The Yankees just completed a stretch of August 7, 1962: In his first game back after serving in the military, Tony facing three former Cy Young Award winners (Scherzer-Mon., ROLL CALL: The Yankees have used 51 players this season Kubek hits a three-run home run in his Price-Tues., and Verlander-Wed.)… according to the Elias Sports (P-29, C-4, INF-11, OF-7), tying 2008 and 2005 for the second- first at-bat, leading the Yankees to a Bureau, marks third time in franchise history the Yankees have 14-1 win vs. Minnesota. faced former Cy Young-winning starting pitchers in three highest total in franchise history, trailing only the all-time high TOMORROW IN YANKEES HISTORY of 56 set in 2013… 26 players in 2014 have made their debut consecutive games… most recently went 1-2 from 6/8-10/01 with the team… seven of those players made their MLB debuts August 8, 1972: The Yankees sign a vs. Atlanta (Tom Glavine, John Smoltz and Greg Maddux)… also 30-year lease to play in the remodeled went 1-2 spanning the All-Star break in 1999, losing on 7/11/99 (Anna, Greene, Ramirez, Solarte, Tanaka, Wheeler and Whitley). Yankee Stadium, with completion scheduled in 1976. at Shea Stadium to the Mets’ Orel Hershiser, then going 1-1 from 7/15-16/99 vs. Atlanta at Yankee Stadium (Glavine & Maddux). SPREAD THE WEALTH: 19 pitchers have earned at least one August 8, 1958: A Jehovah’s Witnesses victory for the Yankees this season, tying Oakland for most in convention draws a single-day Yankee the Majors in 2014… is tied for the third-highest total in Yankees Stadium-record 123,707 people. COMEBACK KIDS: The Yankees have come from behind in nine of their last 10 victories (since 7/20). franchise history (2007-22, 1989-20 and 2008-19). In the Yankees’ 2-1 win on Monday vs. Detroit, they scored two runs in the third before allowing one run in TOP NOTCH: With RHP Esmil Rogers’ win on Sunday at Boston, he joins RHP Masahiro Tanaka (4/4 at Toronto) and the fifth… snapped a stretch of eight straight wins (7/20- LHP Jeff Francis (7/22 vs. Texas) as the third Yankees pitcher MILESTONE WATCH 8/3) in which the Yankees came from behind… overcame a deficit of exactly 3R in four straight wins from 7/25-8/3 this season to record a win in his first career appearance MLB All-time Lists with the club, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.