Thursday, July 30, 2009

Yankees at White Sox

The New York Yankees start a 4 game series with the Chicago White Sox tonight. Andy Pettitte will be taking on Gavin Floyd. Here are the pregame notes and lineups via Peter Abraham. The Yankees enter play today tied for best record in baseball with the LA Dodgers. The White Sox come back home from a terrible 1-6 roadtrip, they are in 3rd place in the AL Central. They trail the Detroit Tigers by 3 games. Andy Pettitte is 11-9 with a 4.48 era in 22 career starts against the White Sox. The Yankees haven't played the White Sox since last Sept and haven't been to US Cellular Field since last April 22-24th. The Yankees were 5-2 against them last year. The Yankees are 11-2 in their last 13 although they have only outscored their opposition by 24 runs. MO in his last 17 games has gone 16 2/3 innings giving up 0 runs on 4 hits with 5 walks and 27 strikeouts. The Yankees have a 3.03 era in the 13 games since the break. Melky Cabrera is 6 of 15 with 5 runs scored since Brett Gardner went on the DL. He is now batting 290. Jorge Posada in his last 12 games has 7 rbi's, 7 xbh and 6 runs scored. Big Tex has a 8 game hitting streak. He is batting 346 since the break with 5 homeruns, 11 rbi's and 7 runs scored. Nick Swisher is 6 of 18 with 3 runs scored, 3 rbi's, 4 xbh and 2 walks. Yankees Lineup: Jeter(SS) Damon(LF) Tex(1B) A-rod(3B) Matsui(DH) Swisher(RF) Cano(2B) Cabrera(CF) Molina(C) White Sox Lineup: Kotsay(CF) Beckham(3B) Dye(RF) Thome(DH) Konerko(1B) Pierzynski(C) Quentin(LF) Getz(2B) Nix(SS)

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