The rivalry wasn’t renewed as often as we all expected it to
be due to Mother Nature postponing the game on Tuesday but tonight the New York
Yankees and the Boston Red Sox will finish their series regardless. In the
finale of this rain-shortened two-game series the New York Yankees will send
Masahiro Tanaka to the mound to square off with Chris Sale for the Boston Red
Sox. Tonight’s scheduled starter CC Sabathia will start tomorrow night in the
Bronx when the team welcomes the Baltimore Orioles to town. Before we get too
ahead of ourselves and start thinking about tomorrow too much let’s focus on
getting a win tonight first.
Tanaka pitched an absolute gem in his last start against the
Chicago White Sox so changing the Sox color should make little difference to
the Japanese-born right-hander. Tanaka allowed just one run on six hits in
seven innings of work last time out in a victory for the Yankees. Tanaka
attributed his best splitter of the season for his success in his last start.
Sale has been absolutely dominant for the Boston Red Sox
since coming over from the Chicago White Sox and his sub-1.00 ERA makes the
decision to trade top prospect Yoan Moncada for him a good one thus far. Sale
has struck out at least ten in three of his first four starts this season and
has gone at least seven innings in all four of those aforementioned starts. It
could be a long, long night for the Baby Bombers tonight inside Fenway if Sale
is on.
The game will be played at 7:10 pm ET inside Fenway Park and
can be seen in New York on the YES Network, in Boston on NESN, MLB Network
nationally and anywhere you and your device are on MLB TV. You can also follow
along on the radio in your cars by tuning into WFAN with John Sterling and
Suzyn Waldman.
It doesn’t matter if the series is two games long or eight
games long it is still “Go Yankees” regardless!
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Sorry for the Capatcha... Blame the Russians :)