The Yankees were thoroughly manhandled in their own stadium by the Orioles last night, who managed to climb to within two games of the top spot in the AL East. Baltimore simply did everything better and frankly the game didn’t feel as close as the 6-1 final score indicates. The Bombers juggled their rotation to avoid having Freddy Garcia start this afternoon, so now the stop-the-bleeding onus falls on David Phelps. He can’t do it alone though, the offense has to do a better job than it’s been doing since the start of the road trip in Chicago. Here’s the starting nine…
SS Derek Jeter
1B Nick Swisher
2B Robinson Cano
RF Andruw Jones
CF Curtis Granderson
C Russell Martin
3B Jayson Nix
DH Eduardo Nunez
LF Ichiro Suzuki
RHP David Phelps
This afternoon’s game is scheduled to start a little after 1pm ET and can be seen on YES. Enjoy.