Yankees at Braves(Rubber Game)

The New York Yankees offense awokened last night and they will try to keep it going tonight against a old foe in Derek Lowe. The Yankees will try and take the 3 game series with a victory tonight. Here are the pregame notes and lineup from Peter Abraham of the Journal News. The Yankees pitchers have a 3.83 era in their last 14 games. Mariano Rivera needs 2 more saves for 500 in his career and 29 strikeouts for 1,000 in his career. Mo has converted 32 of his last 33 save chances in interleague play. Derek Lowe is 8-10 with a 6.07 career era in 39 career regular season games against the Yankees. The last time he faced them was in the 2004 ALCS allowing one run over 6 innings. Derek Jeter, Jorge Posada, A-rod and Hideki Matsui all have good numbers off of Lowe in their careers. Derek Jeter has 16 stolen bases which is the most since 2006 when he had 34. The Yankees are 12-1 in games Bruney appears in. Nick Swisher has 17 hits this month with 11 of them being extra base hits. Yankees pitchers haven't fared that bad in their last 13 plate appearances going 2 for 11 with 2 sacrifices and only 2 strikeouts. 3 of the outs were lineouts. Yankees Lineup: Jeter(SS) Damon(LF) Tex(1B) A-rod(3B) Posada(C) Swisher(RF) Gardner(CF) Ransom(2B) Pettitte(P)