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 (19-19) at NEW YORK METS (19-19) Standing in AL East: ............T2nd, -1.5 Current Streak: ..................... Lost 4 RHP Masahiro Tanaka (5-0, 2.57) vs. RHP Rafael Montero (MLB debut) Home Record: ...............9-10 (46-35) Road Record:. .10-9 (44-37) Wednesday, May 14 • Citi Field • 7:10 P.M. ET Day Record: ...................7-4 (32-24) Night Record: ..............12-15 (53-53) Game #39 • Road Game #20 • TV: My9/ESPN • Radio: WFAN 660AM/101.9FM Pre-All-Star .................19-19 (51-44) Post-All-Star ...................0-0 (34-33) AT A GLANCE: Tonight the Yankees play the third of four games CATCHING ON: C John Ryan Murphy celebrated his 23rd vs. AL East: .................. 11-9 (37-39) vs. AL Central: ................ 0-0 (22-11) against the Mets this season, beginning a two-game set at Citi birthday on Tuesday (DOB: 5/13/91) and is the youngest vs. AL West: .................. 5-6 (17-16) Field after being swept by the Mets at Yankee Stadium on catcher in the Majors according to the Elias Sports vs. National League: ...........3-4 (9-11) Monday and Tuesday… completed a 3-3 road trip on Sunday, Bureau… has hit safely in each of his last six games with an vs. RH starters: .............. 9-12 (53-54) vs. LH starters: ............... 10-7 (32-23) going 2-1 at Los Angeles-AL (5/5-7) and 1-2 at Milwaukee (5/9- at-bat since 4/25, batting .526 (10-for-19) with 2R, 1 double, Yankees Score First: ..........13-4 (53-21) 11)… will follow this set of games with the Mets with a home 1HR and 5RBI over the stretch. Opp. Score First:. .6-15 (32-56) weekend series vs. Pittsburgh (Friday-Sunday). Leading After 6: ...............17-2 (59-6) Have dropped their last four games after a three- CLOSE CALLS: The Yankees have dropped each of their last Trailing After 6: ...............1-16 (13-62) Tied After 6: ....................1-1 (13-9) game winning streak… all of the losses have come in three games decided by two-or-fewer runs (Sat. and Sun. at Leading After 7: ...............16-1 (65-4) Interleague play, matching the Yankees’ longest all-time Milwaukee and Monday vs. the Mets), falling to 9-7 (.562) in Trailing After 7: .............. 0-16 (10-64) Interleague losing streak, which has now happened four such games this season. Tied After 7: ....................3-2 (10-8) Leading After 8: ...............17-0 (69-4) times, most recently from 5/27-30/13 when the Mets Trailing After 8: ............... 0-17 (4-68) swept all four games from the Yankees in last year’s SUBWAY SLAM: In Monday’s loss vs. the Mets, LF Brett Tied After 8: ....................2-2 (12-4) Subway Series. Gardner hit the seventh grand slam in the history of the Extra-Inning Games: .............1-1 (6-6) Have gone 4-9 in their last 13 overall games (4/29 -pres.) after Subway Series (fifth by a Yankee, also Matsui-2, A. Rodriguez-1, One-run Games: ..............4-3 (30-16) Two (or fewer)-run Games: ........9-7 (50-30) going 10-4 in the 14 games before that (4/12-27). Teixeira-1)… was the first Subway Series slam since Mark NYY Scores 5 or more: ........10-6 (51-7) Are 6-4 in their last 10 road games (since 4/20). Teixeira off Johan Santana on 6/20/10 at Yankee Stadium, NYY Scores 4 or more: .......15-8 (66-16) Are 1-6 in their last seven home games (since 4/29). providing the margin of victory in a 4-0 Yankees win. NYY Scores 3 or less: ........ 4-11 (19-61) NYY Scores 2 or less: ..........1-10 (6-50) The Yankees are 1-4 thus far in a stretch of 12 straight Opp. Scores 5 or more:. 2-13 (12-47) Interleague games at Milwaukee (Friday-Sunday), vs. Mets GOOD STARTS LEAD TO GOOD FINISHES: With Sunday’s loss Opp. Scores 4 or less: ....... 18-5 (73-30) (5/12-13), at Mets (5/14-15), vs. Pittsburgh (5/16-18) and at at Milwaukee (led 3-0 after the first, and lost 6-5), the Yankees Opp. Scores 3 or less: ....... 16-1 (55-22) Cubs (5/20-21)… have had a winning Interleague record are now 8-1 in 2014 when leading after the first inning and 11-18 Opp. Scores 2 or less: ....... 10-0 (40-10) Yankees No Errors: .......... 12-8 (61-47) in all but two seasons since its introduction—the first year in all other games… after three innings, are 17-7 when leading Yankees Make Error(s):. 7-11 (24-30) of Interleague play in 1997 (5-10) and last season (9-11). (11-6) or tied (6-1) and just 2-12 when trailing at that point. NYY Starter Goes 6: ......... 16-7 (62-45) Come-From-Behind Wins: ......... 7 (41) Yankees hit 0HR: ..............5-8 (26-49) YESTERDAY’S NEWS: On Tuesday, the Yankees lost their GRAND THEFT: Of the 18 active players who have 250-or- Yankees hit at least 1HR:. 14-10 (59-28) second straight to the Mets, falling, 12-7, at Yankee Stadium more steals, seven of them are in the Yankees organization, Yankees hit 2+ HRs: ............3-4 (31-8) in a 3-hour, 58-minute game… were down 4-0 after the top including Ichiro Suzuki, who leads all active players with Walk-off Wins: ........................0 (7) of the first and 11-4 after four and a half innings… Yankees 474 career SB (also Jeter-348, Rodriguez-322, Beltran-309, Walk-off Losses: ......................1 (6) Series Record: ............ 6-6-1 (23-24-6) batters tallied 10 walks… LHP Vidal Nuno started and Soriano-288, Roberts-282 and Ellsbury-251)… the Yankees Series Record, home: .....3-4-0 (13-10-3) allowed 7R/5ER in 3.1IP (4H, 4BB, 1K, 1HR, 1HP), taking the are 26-for-31 (83.9%) in steal attempts this season, which Series Record, road: ...... 3-2-1 (10-14-3) loss to fall to 1-1 this season… is just the second Yankees is the third-best pct. in the Majors, trailing only Oakland Sweeps by NYY/ by Opp.:. .1 (8)/2 (7) pitcher since 1992 to allow seven-or-more runs on four-or- (88.9%) and Los Angeles-AL (84.8%). fewer hits (also Jose Contreras on 5/4/04 vs. Oakland in a TODAY IN YANKEES HISTORY 10-8 Yankees win: 2.0IP, 7R, 6ER, 4H)… 1B Mark Teixeira (1- FRONT LINES: Yankees starters have allowed just 49BB all May 14, 2009: The Yankees begin an for-5, 1R) drove in the Yankees’ first run with an RBI-single season, lowest among MLB starting staffs (the next-closest MLB 18-game streak without committing in the first… C Brian McCann (3-for-4, 1BB) reached base team is Washington-59BB)… have also struck out 189 batters, an error, during which they will compile a 14-4 record. safely four times, including a two-run homer in the first and giving them a Major League-best 3.86K/BB ratio among starters. May 14, 1996: Dwight Gooden throws an RBI-single in the ninth… LF Brett Gardner (2-for-5, 1R) the eighth no-hitter in franchise had an RBI-single in the fourth and RF Alfonso Soriano (1- A LEAGUE OF HIS OWN: In Monday’s loss vs. the Mets, OF history, defeating the Seattle Mariners, for-5) had an RBI-single in the fifth… 3B Yangervis Solarte Alfonso Soriano became the seventh player all time with 2-0, at Yankee Stadium. He tosses 134 pitches in the contest (74 for strikes), (2-for-4, 2R, 1BB) reached base safely three times and hit at least 1,000H in each league… according to the Elias Sports walking six and striking out five. a solo-HR in the eighth… RHP Alfredo Aceves allowed Bureau, Soriano has 22HR and 65RBI in 94G since rejoining the May 14, 1967: Mickey Mantle hits his 4ER in 1.2IP (1BB, 2K, 1HR)… RHP Matt Daley tossed 3.0 Yankees on 7/26/13, marking the second-most HR (Stanton-24) 500th career home run in the seventh inning off Baltimore’s Stu Miller, scoreless IP (1BB, 3K)… Manager Joe Girardi was ejected and seventh-most RBI in the Majors over the stretch. providing the margin of victory in a 6-5 for arguing balls and strikes after the bottom of the fifth win at Yankee Stadium. inning by HP umpire Jerry Layne. NOTEWORTHY: Thursday marks the 100th anniversary of TOMORROW IN YANKEES HISTORY the birth of former Yankees PR Director Bob Fishel, who May 15, 1941: Joe DiMaggio’s 56- SOLAR POWER: INF Yangervis Solarte leads the American led the department from 1954-73… his tenure spanned three game hitting streak begins with a League with a .336 batting average (fifth in the Majors, trailing different ownership groups (Topping/Webb, CBS and George single off Eddie Smith in a 13-1 loss vs. Colorado’s Troy Tulowitzki-.394 and Charlie Blackmon-.342, Steinbrenner) and he worked with managers Casey Stengel, the White Sox at Yankee Stadium.