Official Game Information Yankee Stadium • One East 161st Street • Bronx, NY 10451 Phone: (718) 579-4460 • [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 2013 (2012) NEW YORK YANKEES (82-75) vs. TAMPA BAY RAYS (88-69) Current Standing in AL East: . 3rd, -12 .5 RHP Phil Hughes (4-13 3.17) vs. LHP David Price (8-8, 3.43) Games Behind for 2nd Wild Card . -5 .0 Current Streak: . .. Lost 2 Wednesday, September 25 • Yankee Stadium • 7:05 p.m. Current Homestand: . 2-2 Recent Road Trip: . 4-6 Game #158 • Home Game #80 • TV: YES/ESPN • Radio: WCBS-AM 880 Last Five Games: . 2-3 Last 10 Games: . 3-7 AT A GLANCE: Tonight the Yankees continue their final regular season homestand of the season with the second of three Home Record: . 46-33 (51-30) games vs . Tampa Bay… are 2-2 on the homestand after losing on Tuesday vs . Tampa Bay and going 2-1 vs . San Francisco from Road Record: . .36-42 (44-37) Friday-Sunday… completed a 4-6 road trip on 9/19 going 3-1 at Baltimore (9/9-12), 0-3 at Boston (9/13-15) and 1-2 at Toronto Day Record: . .. 31-24 (32-20) (9/17-19)… following this homestand, play their final three games of the regular season at Houston (9/27-29) . Night Record: . 51-51 (63-47) Are 12-6 in their last 18 home games (since 8/20) and 18-8 in their last 26 home games (since 7/28) . Pre-All-Star . 51-44 Post-All-Star . 31-31 Are 31-31 since the All-Star break despite going 7-13 in their first 20G following the break… own a 24-18 record since 8/11 . vs . AL East: . 37-37 (41-31) Are 7G over .500, leaving them five games shy of matching their season-high-water mark of 12 .0G over .500 (previously vs . AL Central: . 22-11 (21-16) reached twice before: 30-18 on 5/25 and 28-16 on 5/20)… since last reaching their season-high-water mark on 5/25, vs . AL West: . 14-16 (20-15) have gone 52-57, including 21-33 on the road and 31-24 at home . vs . National League: . 9-11 (13-5) Are 5 .0G behind the second Wild Card spot and will be eliminated from postseason contention with a loss or a Cleveland win . vs . RH starters: . 52-53 (58-43) vs . LH starters: .. .. 30-22 (37-24) YESTERDAY’S NEWS: The Yankees lost to Tampa Bay, 7-0, at Yankee Stadium… Yankees batters were outhit by the Rays, Yankees Score First: . 52-21 (59-27) 9-4… RHP Hiroki Kuroda started and took the loss, allowing 5ER in 5 .2IP (5H, 2BB, 5K, 1HR) to fall to 11-13 on the season… marked Opp . Score First: . .30-54 (36-40) Leading After 6: . 57-6 (73-8) his most ER allowed in a home game since 7/13/12 vs . Los Angeles-AL (also 5ER)… LF Alfonso Soriano (1-for-2) reached base Trailing After 6: . 12-60 (13-54) three times (1 single, 2BB)…2B Robinson Cano (1-for-4) recorded the Yankees’ only extra-base hit with a seventh-inning Tied After 6: . .. 13-9 (9-5) double… LHP Boone Logan struck out his only batter faced in making his first appearance since 9/6 vs . Boston . Leading After 7: . 63-4 (79-5) Trailing After 7: . 9-62 (9-58) FROM ZEROES TO HEROES: The Yankees are 8-2 this season in games immediately following a shutout loss, and have gone Tied After 7: . .. 10-8 (7-4) 34-11 ( .756) in such games since 2008 when Joe Girardi took over as manager… have been shut out 11 times in 2013, marking Leading After 8: . 67-4 (88-5) their most in a single season since being shut out 15 times 1990 . Trailing After 8: . 4-66 (1-58) Tied After 8: . .. 11-4 (5-4) Extra-Inning Games: . 5-6 (6-3) PITCH MEN: Yankees pitchers held San Francisco to just three runs in their three- LOWEST ERA - ALL TIME One-run Games: . 28-16 (22-25) game series from Friday to Sunday, marking just the second time in the last 10 seasons (min. 1,000.0IP)* Two (or fewer)-run Games: . 46-29 (41-33) (2004-13) that the Yankees had allowed three-or-fewer runs in a series of three-or- 1 . Eddie Cicotte . 2 .20 NYY Scores 5 or more: . 50-7 (68-19) more games (also allowed 3R over a three-game sweep of the Mets at Citi Field from 2. MARIANO RIVERA. .2.21 NYY Scores 4 or more: . 65-16 (83-27) 6/26-28/09)… marked just the second time in the last 20 seasons (1994-2013) that the 3 . Jim Scott . 2 .26 NYY Scores 3 or less: . 17-59 (12-40) Yankees had allowed three-or-fewer runs in a home series of three-or-more games 4 . Babe Ruth . 2 .28 NYY Scores 2 or less: . 5-49 (6-27) *Since earned runs became an ( allowed 2R in sweeping a three-game series vs . Tampa Bay from 4/5-7/02) . Opp . Scores 5 or more: . 12-46 (14-46) official statistic (1912-NL, 1913-AL) Opp . Scores 4 or less: . 69-29 (81-19) Opp . Scores 3 or less: . 52-22 (66-8) WINNING PROPOSITIONS: With Saturday’s win taking the Yankees to 82-73, the team MOST APPEARANCES Opp . Scores 2 or less: . 36-10 (46-4) has clinched their 21st straight winning season (1993-2013), marking the second- ALL-TIME Yankees No Errors: . 57-46 (66-40) longest such stretch in Major League history behind only the franchise’s streak of 39 1 . Jesse Orosco . 1,252 Yankees Make Error(s): . 25-29 (29-27) consecutive winning seasons from 1926-64 . 2 . Mike Stanton . .. 1,178 NYY Starter Goes 6: . 62-43 (71-35) 3 . John Franco . 1,119 4. MARIANO RIVERA ....1,114 Opp . Starter Goes 6: . 45-55 (54-48) MIDDLEMEN: The Yankees are 25-27 in series openers and 25-26 in finales, but own a 32-22 5 . Dennis Eckersley . 1,071 Yankees Outhit Opp .: . 51-9 (66-12) mark in the middle games of a series . Opp . Outhits Yankees: . 19-59 (20-50) Rivera is the only pitcher all time to Hit Totals Are Even: . .12-7 (9-5) make more than 1,000 appearances with one club. Come-From-Behind Wins: . 39 (46) START AND STOP: In his last start on Friday vs . San Francisco, LHP CC Sabathia suffered C-F-B Wins (trailing by 3+): . 11 (9) a Grade 2 left hamstring strain, which requires a recovery time of approx . eight weeks… as MOST SAVES - ALL-TIME* C-F-B Wins (trailing by 4+): . 1 (4) a result, was placed on the 60-day disabled list on Wednesday (retro . to 9/21)… finished 1. MARIANO RIVERA ..... 652 C-F-B Wins (trailing by 5+): . 0 (1) the season 14-13 with a 4 .78 ERA (211 .0IP, 112ER) in 32GS… is the only pitcher in history 2 . Trevor Hoffman . 601 Yankees hit 0HR: . 24-48 (7-24) to win more than 10G while posting a winning record in each of his first 13 MLB seasons . 3 . Lee Smith . 478 Yankees hit at least 1HR: . 58-27 (88-43) 4 . John Franco . 424 Yankees hit 2+ HRs: . 31-8 (55-17) CENTURY CITY: LF Alfonso Soriano (51RBI w/Cubs and 50RBI w/Yankees in 2013) has 5 . Billy Wagner . 422 Walk-off Wins: . 6 (5) notched his fourth career 100RBI season this season (2003, 2005, 2012-13)…according to Walk-off Losses: . 6 (6) the Elias Sports Bureau, he (at age 37) is the oldest player to register back-to-back 100RBI Series Record: . 23-23-6 (30-15-7) MOST SAVES Series Record, home: . 14-9-3 (17-7-2) seasons for the first time in his career, surpassing Andre Dawson (1990-91 when he was IN FINAL CAREER SEASON Series Record, road: . .. 9-14-3 (13-8-5) six months younger than Soriano)… Elias also notes that has become the fifth player List excludes active players. Mariano Series Openers: . 25-27 (32-20) in MLB history to drive in 50-or-more runs for each of two different teams in one season, Rivera has 44 saves this season. Series Finales: . 25-26 (34-18) joining Matt Holliday (2009-OAK/STL), Manny Ramirez (2008-BOS/LAD), Carlos Beltran T1 . Robb Nen (SFG) . 43 (2002) Sweeps by Yankees: . 8 (10) (2004-KC/HOU), and David Justice (2000-CLE/NYY) . Jeff Shaw (LAD) . 43 (2001) Sweeps by Opponent: . 6 (4) 3 . Billy Wagner (ATL) . 37 (2010) TODAY IN YANKEESMARIANO RIVERAHISTORY RETIREMENT LOGO ARM STRENGTH: The YankeesOption 1 areMarch 8, 2013 30-22 vs . LH starters in 2013 (12-12 road & 18-10 home) . 4 . Tom Henke (STL) . 36 (1995) Sept. 25, 1998: The Yankees establish 5 . Todd Worrell (LAD) . 35 (1997) an AL record with their 112th win of the season (a 6-1 win vs . Tampa Bay at Yankee RIVERA TRIBUTE: On Sunday, the Yankees honored RHP Mariano Stadium), breaking the mark of 111 by Rivera with a 50-minute pregame ceremony prior to their game vs . San the 1954 Indians (they complete the SINCE ACQUISITION OF Francisco… with Rachel and Sharon Robinson in attendance, a new season with an AL record 114th victory on ALFONSO SORIANO (7/26) September 27 vs .