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 (68-60) at TAMPA BAY RAYS (73-53) Current Standing in AL East: . 4th, -6 .0 LHP CC Sabathia (11-10, 4.83) vs. LHP David Price (7-5, 3.29) Games Behind for 2nd Wild Card . -3 .5 Current Streak: . .. Lost 1 Saturday, August 24 • Tropicana Field • 7:10 p.m. Current Road Trip: . .0-1 Recent Homestand: . 4-0 Game #129 • Road Game #64 • TV: YES • Radio: WCBS-AM 880 Last Five Games: . 4-1 Last 10 Games: . 7-3 AT A GLANCE: Tonight the Yankees play the second game of a three-game series at Tampa Bay… marks the second game of a Home Record: . 38-27 (51-30) six-game road trip which also includes three games from Mon .-Wed . at Toronto before an off day on Thursday… completed a Road Record: . .30-33 (44-37) brief homestand, sweeping four games from the Blue Jays… following this road trip, begin a 10-game homestand with games Day Record: . .. 26-20 (32-20) vs . Baltimore (8/30-9/1), Chicago-AL (9/2-4) and Boston (9/5-8) . Night Record: . 42-40 (63-47) Pre-All-Star . 51-44 Had their five-game winning streak snapped with Friday’s loss at Tampa Bay… are 10-3 in their last 13 games since 8/11 . Post-All-Star . 17-16 Are 17-16 since the All-Star break after starting out 7-13 . vs . AL East: . 28-23 (41-31) Are just 3 .5G behind in the race for the second Wild Card spot and 6 .0G behind Tampa Bay and Boston in the AL East vs . AL Central: . 19-11 (21-16) (the Rays are percentage points ahead of Boston)… trailed Boston by a season-high 11 .5G in the division entering vs . AL West: . 14-16 (20-15) play on 8/8 (just over two weeks ago), having made up 5 .5G in that time . vs . National League: . 7-10 (13-5) Have won 22 one-run games this season, matching their total from all of 2012 . vs . RH starters: . 44-43 (58-43) Are 42-40 in night games and 26-20 in day games this season . vs . LH starters: .. .. 24-17 (37-24) Since last reaching their season-high-water mark of 12G over .500 (30-18 at the close of play on 5/25), have gone 38-42, Yankees Score First: . 44-14 (59-27) Opp . Score First: . .24-46 (36-40) including 15-24 on the road and 23-18 at home . Leading After 6: . 49-4 (73-8) In 1978 after 128G, were 74-54 (2nd behind Boston, -7 .5G)… after 128G, were 75-54 (2nd behind Boston, -7 .5G) . Trailing After 6: . 9-48 (13-54) Tied After 6: . .. 10-8 (9-5) YESTERDAY’S NEWS: On Friday the Yankees lost at Tampa Bay, 7-2 … Yankees batters were outhit, 9-5, having tallied just Leading After 7: . 54-3 (79-5) nine hits over their last two games… RHP Hiroki Kuroda allowed a season-high 7ER in 6 .0IP, recording the loss and falling Trailing After 7: . 6-50 (9-58) to 11-9 on the season (9H, 1BB, 3K, 4HR)… tied a single-game career high in home runs allowed (also 4HR on 9/5/11 w/ Los Tied After 7: . 8-6 (7-4) Angeles-NL at Washington) and had his career-long 57 .1IP homerless streak snapped in the second inning… allowed three Leading After 8: . 56-3 (88-5) runs in the second inning, two in the third, one in the fourth and one in the fifth… LF Alfonso Soriano (1-for-4) singled in a Trailing After 8: . 4-52 (1-58) Tied After 8: . 8-4 (5-4) run in the first… CF Brett Gardner (2-for-2) reached base safely three times (single, triple, walk) and scored both Yankees Extra-Inning Games: . 4-5 (6-3) runs… 2B Robinson Cano (0-for-4) drove in a run in the sixth on a groundout… SS Eduardo Nunez (2-for-3) recorded the One-run Games: . 22-14 (22-25) remaining Yankees hits with a pair of singles… RHP Joba Chamberlain tossed 2 .0 perfect innings (1K) in relief of Kuroda . Two (or fewer)-run Games: . 38-25 (41-33) NYY Scores 5 or more: . 40-4 (68-19) 4,000 ARRIVES: With a first-inning single in Wednesday’s win vs . Toronto, RF Ichiro Suzuki notched his 4,000th career hit NYY Scores 4 or more: . 53-12 (83-27) when combining his totals from the Majors (2,722) and the Pacific League (1,278)… the plateau of hits from the highest NYY Scores 3 or less: . 15-48 (12-40) levels of baseball in the U .S . and Japan has been reached only twice before: by Pete Rose (4,256) and Ty Cobb (4,191) . NYY Scores 2 or less: . 4-39 (6-27) Over his last 80G since 5/25, is batting .289 (82-for-284) with 33R, 9 doubles, 2 triples, 4HR, 21RBI, 13SB and a .322 OBP . Opp . Scores 5 or more: . 8-35 (14-46) Opp . Scores 4 or less: . 59-25 (81-19) Has more hits over the 13 years of his Major League career (2,723) than any other Major Leaguer has had over any Opp . Scores 3 or less: . 44-20 (66-8) 13-year span all time . Opp . Scores 2 or less: . 30-8 (46-4) Donated a game-used jersey from his 4,000th-hit game to the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, N .Y . Yankees No Errors: . 47-39 (66-40) Yankees Make Error(s): . 21-21 (29-27) SERIESOUSLY SPEAKING: With their series victory vs . Toronto this week, the Yankees have won four consecutive series since NYY Starter Goes 6: . 51-35 (71-35) 8/9 (2-1 vs . Detroit, 3-1 vs . Los Angeles-AL, 2-1 at Boston, and 3-0 in the current four-game set vs . Toronto), marking their Opp . Starter Goes 6: . 36-45 (54-48) longest such streak since winning four consecutive series from 4/8-21 (at Cleveland, vs . Baltimore, vs . Arizona and at Toronto, Yankees Outhit Opp .: . 41-8 (66-12) respectively)… last won five straight series from 9/11-26/12 (also five straight series wins)… their 8/9-11 series win vs . Detroit, Opp . Outhits Yankees: . 16-46 (20-50) Hit Totals Are Even: . .11-6 (9-5) marked their first series win going 2-1 from 7/5-7 vs . Baltimore… snapped a streak of going 0-5-3 in series from 7/8-8/7, their Come-From-Behind Wins: . 31 (46) longest non-winning single-season streak since going 0-8-3 over an 11-series span in 1991 according to the Elias Sports Bureau . C-F-B Wins (trailing by 3+): . 8 (9) C-F-B Wins (trailing by 4+): . 1 (4) HIT MEN: Over their last 11G (since 8/13), Yankees batters are hitting .314 (120-for-382) with 71 runs scored, 18 doubles, 13HR, C-F-B Wins (trailing by 5+): . 0 (1) 37BB and a .384 on-base percentage . Yankees hit 0HR: . 20-39 (7-24) Have raised their team season batting average from .240 to .246 over the stretch (last 11G since 8/13) . Yankees hit at least 1HR: . 48-21 (88-43) With runners in scoring position over their last 11G, are batting .315 (35-for-111) with 3 doubles, 1 triple, 5HR, 59RBI, 16BB Yankees hit 2+ HRs: . 24-7 (55-17) and a .402 on-base percentage . Walk-off Wins: . 6 (5) Walk-off Losses: . 6 (6) Series Record: . 19-18-6 (30-15-7) COMEBACK TRAIL: SS Derek Jeter went 0-for-3 with 1R and 1BB on Friday with Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre vs . Series Record, home: . 11-8-3 (17-7-2) Pawtucket… in 2G with SWB, is 2-for-6 with 2R, 1 double, 1RBI and 1BB . Series Record, road: . .. 8-10-3 (13-8-5) Series Openers: . 22-21 (32-20) BIRD BATH: The Yankees visit Toronto for three games beginning Monday… were undefeated at home vs . Toronto this Series Finales: . 21-21 (34-18) season, going 10-0… according to the Elias Sports Bureau, it marked the fifth time in franchise history the Yankees swept Sweeps by Yankees: . 7 (10) a home season series vs . a single team they hosted at least 10 times (also 10-0 vs . the 2004 Devil Rays, 11-0 vs . 1957 K .C . Sweeps by Opponent: . 5 (4) Athletics, 11-0 vs . the 1945 Philadelphia Athletics and 10-0 vs . the 1940 Senators)…have won 13 straight home games vs . TODAY IN YANKEES HISTORY Toronto, marking an all-time best franchise home winning streak vs . the Jays… marks the Yankees’ second-longest home August 24, 1927: The Yankees defeat Detroit, 9-5, at Navin Field as Wilcy Moore winning streak vs . any team since 1961, trailing only a 14-game streak in the Bronx vs . Kansas City from 8/7/02-4/13/06 . wins his 15th game of the season . The win marks the start of an eight-game GRAND PLANS: In Thursday’s win vs . Toronto, CF Curtis Granderson (1-for-3) hit his first home run off left-handed team winning streak, the second of two pitching this season and his Major League-leading 31st homer off a lefty since the start of 2011 .