(AP Photo/Elaine Thompson & REUTERS/Robert Sorbo )
WP - CC Sabathia (13-7)
LP - Ian Snell (2-9)
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | ||
| NYY | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 15 | 0 | |
| SEA | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
WP - CC Sabathia (13-7)
LP - Ian Snell (2-9)
This one wasn't much of a contest. CC Sabathia was sharp from the start and completely dominated the Mariners over 8 strong innings. He allowed just one run on his only mistake of the game, a solo homer by John Wilson in the bottom of the fifth. On the night he allowed just that 1 run on 3 hits, walked 2, and struck out a season-high 10 Mariners. Of his 105 pitches, 74 found the strike zone.
In CC's last two starts he's thrown 15.2 innings, and allowed 1 earned run on 5 hits, walked 4, and struck out 19. He's also posted his two highest strikeout totals in each of the games - 9 against the Red Sox, and 10 tonight. CC looks like he's getting hotter with the weather, which really shouldn't come as a surprise. Coming into tonight CC was 30-9, with a 3.21 ERA in 48 August starts. Now you can make that 31-9.
On the other side Ian Snell wasn't fooling anyone and the Yankees got on the board early. They scored two runs in the second on a Jerry Hairston Jr. RBI double, and a wild pitch that allowed a run to come in. They then added three more in the third, one coming on a Derek Jeter solo homer to leadoff the inning, and the other two scored on another long ball, a two-run blast by Hideki Matsui. Mark Teixeira doubled in the Yankees sixth run in the fourth and by this point the game was pretty much over. Especially with the way CC was throwing the ball.
Matsui's homer was just the beginning of his big night. He drove in his third run of the game with an RBI single in the Yankees three-run seventh. One inning later he's come up to the plate with one on and two out and launched his second two-run homer of the game. He finished the night going 4-for-5 with 2 HR, 5 RBI, and 4 runs scored.
Six Yankees - Jeter, Matsui, Damon, Hairston, Teixeira and Cano - had multi-hit games. As a team they pounded out 11 runs on 15 hits. And they did it all without A-Rod and Jorge Posada.
It was a very nice and easy win for the Yanks to open their ten-game road trip.
Justin Verlander and the Tigers shutout the Red Sox at Fenway earlier in the day, so the Yanks lead in the division is back up to 6.5 games. They are also now a season-high 29 games over .500.
| AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO | LOB | AVG | |
| Jeter, SS | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .319 |
| a-Pena, R, PH-SS | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .267 |
| Damon, LF | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .289 |
| b-Hinske, PH-RF | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .250 |
| Teixeira, 1B | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .288 |
| Matsui, H, DH | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .269 |
| Swisher, RF-LF | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | .242 |
| Cano, 2B | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | .318 |
| Cabrera, Me, CF | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | .272 |
| Hairston, J, 3B | 5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .262 |
| Molina, J, C | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | .239 |
| Totals | 42 | 11 | 15 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 21 | |
a-Grounded out for Jeter in the 8th. b-Struck out for Damon in the 8th. | ||||||||
BATTING 2B: Hairston, J (19, Snell), Damon 2 (28, Snell, Snell), Teixeira (32, Snell). HR: Jeter (14, 3rd inning off Snell, 0 on, 0 out), Matsui, H 2 (19, 3rd inning off Snell, 1 on, 1 out; 8th inning off Olson, 1 on, 2 out). TB: Jeter 5; Damon 4; Teixeira 3; Matsui, H 10; Cano 2; Hairston, J 3; Molina, J. RBI: Hairston, J 2 (32), Jeter (49), Matsui, H 5 (58), Teixeira (85), Cabrera, Me (46). 2-out RBI: Hairston, J 2; Teixeira; Matsui, H 2. Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: Molina, J 2; Hairston, J; Matsui, H; Pena, R. Team RISP: 4-for-14. Team LOB: 8. FIELDING DP: (Jeter-Cano-Teixeira). | ||||||||
| IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR | ERA | |
| Sabathia (W, 13-7) | 8.0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 3.64 |
| Bruney | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5.11 |
Pitches-strikes: Sabathia 105-74, Bruney 8-6.
MARINERS STATS
PLAYER OF THE GAME (A): CC Sabathia (W, 8 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 10 K)
PLAYER OF THE GAME (B): Hideki Matsui (4-for-5, 2 HR, 5 RBI, 4 R)
Tomorrow's Game
Yankees @ Mariners
Game Time: 10:10 p.m. | TV/Radio: YES, WCBS
LHP Andy Pettitte (9-6, 4.14) vs. LHP Ryan Rowland-Smith (2-1, 3.86)
Yankees @ Mariners
Game Time: 10:10 p.m. | TV/Radio: YES, WCBS
LHP Andy Pettitte (9-6, 4.14) vs. LHP Ryan Rowland-Smith (2-1, 3.86)
9 Comments:
Sabathia was dominant. He looks like he is about to go on a nice little run.
The yankees have a great offense. LOL I thought Safeco was a pitchers park?
Bruney looks like he is back to his early season form. He’s locating his fastball very well and it has a nice downwards plane to it again. His last 3 appearances he has pitched 4 scoreless innings. This bullpen is looking really good.
Melky is struggling a little bit the platoon with Gardner was very good. You had a nice rotation with the 4 outfielders. Good news Gardy is back in a couple of weeks.
This team is looking a lot like the 1998 yankees.
Good game. Yanks needed a blow-out and winning the first game after a long flight out there is tough to do. Matsui really stepped up to fill in for A-Rod. If Matsui stay hot, he and Cano could carry the team if A-Rod needs a week off.
Matsui's second homer would have been caught by Ichiro but an idiot Mariners fan caught it. The fans around him started yelling at him and Ichiro even shot him a glare.
It's amazing how friggin' stupid some fans are. You do that to the opposing team, not to your own player.
Moron!
But I'm sure Matsui thanks him for his idiocy!
Nice easy win for the yanks on a night where they needed to rest some players.
crossfire - watch the replay again. the fan is wearing a yankees hat and cheers when he catches it. besides, the ball was going to be a homerun anyway. the fan made a nice catch like the guy did with posada's homerun to right field a couple days ago.
CC was effin great last night, man.
TJay & Miller, CC was really good last night. It great to see him getting into his true form. When he's on he's one of the better pitchers in the game.
Bruney, also looked good, but I gotta see that in a close game before I start to have faith in him.
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CF, I think that was a Yankee fan.
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JoeV, They needed a blowout very badly. They could use a few more.
Anon... I looked at that hat several times and it is hard to tell if it is a Yankee hat. I know the Seattle announcer says that he is probably a Yankee fan.
It is definitely not an NY logo like the ones on the authentic hats. It is a white square patch and I can not see what it says when I blow it up on my 20 inch computer screen in my office.
Maybe you saw the patch on the hat clearer on a bigger screen. I just can't tell for certain.
But if he was a Yankee fan, why would he throw the ball back? No Yankee fan would ever throw back a homer from a Yankee hitter, especially in Seattle.
I still say he was an idiot Seattle fan. And I also think that Ichiro would almost have certainly caught that. I watched it over and over and even froze the screen several times and it looked like he had it all the way. It would have been a great catch but I still think he had it.
Greg, were you able to see a better shot of the hat? I'm at work and I can only freeze it on a 20" screen. It's definitely not the traditional NY logo. It is a square patch.
I'm not saying I'm definitely right, I really can't tell what it is other than the fact that I know it's not the traditional logo.
I just don't see any way that a Yankee fan would throw the ball back if he caught it. That makes no sense whatsoever.
Well, it was either a Mariners fan and he caught it before Ichiro could or a Yankee fan that who threw a home run ball from his team back on the field.
Either way, the guy is a moron.
Not that it mattered much regarding the outcome of the game.
Upon further review I cannot tell what hat the guy is wearing. I know he was with an M's fan and did throw the ball back so you never know. But yes, moron seems to be the more applicable classification.
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