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 (4-4) vs. BALTIMORE ORIOLES (3-5) Standing in AL East: ............ T2nd, -0.5 Current Streak: .................... Lost 1 RHP Masahiro Tanaka (1-0, 2.57) vs. RHP Miguel Gonzalez (0-1, 18.90) Home Record: ................1-1 (46-35) Road Record:. 3-3 (44-37) Wednesday, April 9 • Yankee Stadium • 7:05 P.M. ET Day Record: ...................2-2 (32-24) Night Record: .................2-2 (53-53) Game #9 • Home Game #3 • TV: YES • Radio: WFAN 660AM/101.9FM Pre-All-Star ....................4-4 (51-44) Post-All-Star ...................0-0 (34-33) vs. AL East: ................... 3-2 (37-39) AT A GLANCE: Tonight the Yankees will play the third game of HAPPY BIRTHDAY: RHP David Robertson turns 29 today vs. AL Central: ................ 0-0 (22-11) vs. AL West: .................. 1-2 (17-16) a 10-day, nine-game homestand vs. Baltimore… will continue (DOB: April 9, 1985). vs. National League: ...........0-0 (9-11) their homestand with games vs. Boston (Thurs.-Sun.) and vs. RH starters: ............... 3-3 (53-54) Chicago-NL (4/15-16)… have split the first two games of this YARD WORK: With LF Brett Gardner’s two-run HR in vs. LH starters: ................ 1-1 (32-23) Yankees Score First: ...........3-0 (53-21) series with the Orioles, winning, 4-2, on Mon. and losing, 14-5, Sunday’s win at Toronto, the Yankees snapped a five-game Opp. Score First:. 1-4 (32-56) on Tues.… completed a six-game, season-opening road trip on homerless streak to start the season… was just the fifth Leading After 6: ................4-0 (59-6) Sunday with a 3-3 record (1-2 at Houston and 2-1 at Toronto). time since 1923 they had such a streak to begin a season Trailing After 6: ................0-4 (13-62) Tied After 6: ....................0-0 (13-9) Are 4-0 this season when leading after six innings and 0-4 (also 1990-7G, 1975-6G, 1964-5G, 1938-5G)… the HR also Leading After 7: ................4-0 (65-4) when trailing after six innings. snapped the team’s 183AB homerless stretch to start the Trailing After 7: ............... 0-4 (10-64) season… the Elias Sports Bureau notes that the Yankees had Tied After 7: ....................0-0 (10-8) Will play 18 of their first 31 games at home. Leading After 8: ................4-0 (69-4) Are starting the season with games on 13 consecutive days. only two longer droughts since the advent of the DH in 1973 Trailing After 8: ................. 0-4 (4-68) (234AB to start 1975 and 229AB to start 1990). Tied After 8: ....................0-0 (12-4) Yankees pitchers allowed 20H on Tuesday after allowing Yankees batters had their first multi-HR game in Tuesday’s Extra-Inning Games: .............0-0 (6-6) just 50H over the first seven games of the season… have One-run Games: ..............0-0 (30-16) averaged 7.63 K/game and 2.25 BB/game this season. loss vs. Baltimore (2HR - Soriano and Johnson). Two (or fewer)-run Games: ........3-1 (50-30) NYY Scores 5 or more: .........2-1 (51-7) For the first time in franchise history, the Yankees did not NYY Scores 4 or more: ........4-1 (66-16) have a player start the first six games of the season according CHOOSING SIDES: This season Yankees LH hitters are NYY Scores 3 or less: ......... 0-3 (19-61) batting .285 (53-for-186) with 11 doubles, 1 triple, 2HR, to the Elias Sports Bureau… became the first Major League NYY Scores 2 or less: ...........0-3 (6-50) 22RBI, 22BB and a .364 OBP… Yankees RH hitters are batting Opp. Scores 5 or more:. .1-1 (12-47) team to do so since the 1980 Detroit Tigers. Opp. Scores 4 or less: ........ 4-2 (73-30) .227 (20-for-88) with 6 doubles, 5RBI, 6BB and a .310 OBP. Opp. Scores 3 or less: ........ 3-1 (55-22) YESTERDAY’S NEWS: On Tuesday the Yankees were defeated Opp. Scores 2 or less: ........ 2-0 (40-10) MADE IN JAPAN: The Yankees have three Japan-born by Baltimore, 14-5… Yankees pitchers allowed 14R, their most Yankees No Errors: ........... 3-2 (61-47) players on their active roster: OF Ichiro Suzuki, RHP Hiroki Yankees Make Error(s):. 1-2 (24-30) since a 14-7 loss on 6/29/12 vs. Chicago-AL… also surrendered NYY Starter Goes 6: .......... 3-3 (62-45) 20H, their most since 7/14/11 at Toronto (also 20H) and their Kuroda and RHP Masahiro Tanaka… with Tanaka’s start on Opp. Starter Goes 6: ......... 0-2 (46-57) second-most ever at the current Yankee Stadium (4/18/09 vs. Friday at Toronto, the Yankees have now had seven Japan- Come-From-Behind Wins: ......... 2 (41) born players in their history: Hideki Irabu (1997-99), Hideki C-F-B Wins (trailing by 3+):. 0 (11) Cleveland-25H)… Yankees batters had a season-high 13H and C-F-B Wins (trailing by 4+):. 0 (1) Matsui (2003-09), Kei Igawa (2007-08), Hiroki Kuroda (2012- recorded their first multi-HR game of the year… RHP Ivan Nova C-F-B Wins (trailing by 5+):. 0 (0) 14), Ryota Igarashi (2012), Ichiro Suzuki (2012-14) and Tanaka Yankees hit 0HR: ..............3-3 (26-49) started and allowed 7ER in 3.2IP (10H, 0BB, 3K, 1HR), taking the Yankees hit at least 1HR:. 1-1 (59-28) (2014)… with Tanaka and Kuroda, the Yankees will have two loss and falling to 1-1 this season… had his streak of 24 straight Yankees hit 2+ HRs: ............0-1 (31-8) Japan-born pitchers in their starting rotation, becoming Walk-off Wins: ........................0 (7) starts of 4ER-or-fewer snapped… RF Carlos Beltran (1-for-5) the first team to do so since the Dodgers had starters Hideo Walk-off Losses: ......................0 (6) had an RBI-double in the first… DH Alfonso Soriano (2-for-4, 1R, Series Record: ............ 1-1-0 (23-24-6) Nomo and Kazuhisa Ishii in 2004. Series Record, home: .....0-0-0 (13-10-3) 1 double, solo-HR, 1HP) reached base safely three times and hit Series Record, road: ...... 1-1-0 (10-14-3) his first HR of the season in the fourth… 3B Yangervis Solarte BOTTOMS UP: Yankees 7-9 batters have combined to bat .329 Sweeps by Yankees: ..................0 (8) (2-for-4, 2 doubles, 1RBI) had an RBI-double in the fourth… CF (28-for-85) with 14R, 9 doubles, 1HR, 9RBI and 11BB in 2014. Jacoby Ellsbury (3-for-4, 1R, 1 double, 1SB) reached base safely three times… 2B Kelly Johnson (1-for-1, solo-HR in eighth CURTAIN CALL: SS Derek Jeter has begun his inning) hit his first HR as a Yankee after entering the game as TODAY IN YANKEES HISTORY 20th and final season as a Yankee, breaking a tie an eighth-inning defensive replacement… snapped a 99AB April 9, 1996: With the snow coming with Mariano Rivera (19 seasons), to become down even before Joe DiMaggio’s homerless streak, marking his first HR since 8/7/13 w/Tampa the longest tenured player in franchise history Bay at Arizona… 1B Francisco Cervelli (1-for-4, 1R) started at ceremonial first pitch, the Yankees (see chart below)… leads all active MLBers defeat the Kansas City Royals, 7-3, in 1B, marking his first career appearance at the position… LHP the Bronx home opener. Newcomers and is the Yankees franchise leader with 3,322 Joe Girardi (replacing Mike Stanley) Vidal Nuno allowed 7ER in 3.1IP of relief, marking the most career hits… on Sunday at Toronto, surpassed and Tino Martinez (replacing Don ER allowed by a Yankees reliever since Anthony Claggett on Paul Molitor (3,319) for sole possession of eighth place on Mattingly) get booed during pregame 4/18/09 vs. Cleveland (1.2IP, 8ER). MLB’s all-time hits list and fourth place on the all-time AL introductions. hits list (see charts below)… the Elias Sports Bureau notes that April 9, 1989: Rickey Henderson PEN PALS: Prior to allowing 7ER in 5.1IP in Tuesday’s loss records his 800th career stolen base in Jeter now has more hits than anyone he ever played with or a 4-3 loss to the Cleveland Indians. vs. Baltimore (10H, 3BB, 5K, 2HR), Yankees relievers held against… announced on 2/12 that he would retire following TOMORROW IN YANKEES HISTORY opponents to a Major League-best .121 (7-for-58) batting the 2014 season… is a 13-time All-Star (1998-2002, ‘04, ‘06- average from 4/1-7 over the first seven games of the season April 10, 1998: The Yankees draw 12), five-time Gold Glove winner (2004-06, ‘09-10) and five- the largest regular season crowd in with a 2.12 ERA (17.0IP, 4ER, 8BB, 18K, 3HR). time Silver Slugger winner (2006-09, ‘12)… was the 1996 AL remodeled original Yankee Stadium Rookie of the Year… was MVP of the 2000 All-Star Game and history (56,717), defeating Oakland in NOTHING FOR FREE: Yankees starting pitchers (Tanaka, 2000 World Series, becoming the only player to win both the home opener, 17–13.