New York Yankees at Seattle Mariners

The New York Yankees begin a 4 game set in Seattle tonight at 10:05 on the Yes network. This is also the start of a long 3 city 10 game roadtrip that concludes in Boston. Here are the notes and lineup from the Lohud Yankees Blog by Peter Abraham of the Journal News. The Yankees are 30-25 on the road this season, only the Angels are better at 32-22. Everyone else in the league is under 500. CC Sabathia is 4-1 with a 2.83 era in 7 career starts at Safeco Field. CC faced them at Yankee stadium this season and was bad giving up 10 hits and 6 runs in 5 2/3 innings. CC is 30-9 with a 3.21 era in 48 career starts in August. Johnny Damon has 9 xbh with 5 being homeruns in his last 9 games. Melky Cabrera is batting 139 in 9 games since hitting for the cycle in Chicago. Phil Coke has made 55 appearances this year, only 11 guys have more, 2 in the AL which are Craig Breslow and Matt Guerrier. Robinson Cano is really hot going 18 of his last 39 with 8 xbh and 4 rbi's. He has 8 multihit games in his last 9 games. Yankees Lineup: Jeter(SS) Damon(LF) Tex(1B) Matsui(DH) Swisher(RF) Cano(2B) Cabrera(CF) Hairston(3B) Molina(C)