The New York Yankees and the Baltimore Orioles will finish
off their four game set this afternoon in the Bronx with one more intense
pitching matchup. Buck Showalter has done all he could do this series to mess
with the Yankees and to tweak his team to optimize efficiency against the
Yankees and it simply hasn’t worked out as well as he could have expected to
date. CC Sabathia, who the Yankees will send out today for the finale, will
look to add a bit of salt to that wound while Showalter saved the best for last
in Chris Tillman for the Orioles.
Sabathia was one of the Yankees best starting pitchers for
much of this season but for the last five starts the Yankees veteran lefty has
been anything but rejuvenated. CC allowed five runs and nine hits in 5.1
innings in his last start against the Boston Red Sox which ballooned his ERA to
7.94 since June 22. Ouch. Over/under two weeks before he is on the DL for a
knee problem? I’m going under.
Tillman heads into this start fresh off his 13th
win and will look to keep his career year going this afternoon against the
Yankees. Tillman has not lost to the American League East this season posting a
6-0 record and the Orioles are even better in those games he started posting a
9-0 record.
The game will be played at 1:05 pm ET inside Yankee Stadium
and can be seen on the YES Network and MLB TV. As much as I like beating up on
the Orioles I hate losing to the Orioles twice as much. No game is ever easy
against these guys so take your losses on the chin and get the heck out of
town. Win one for Buck! Go Yankees!
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