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River Ave. Blues ยป Game 139: Sweep the Leg

Game 139: Sweep the Leg

September 4, 2013 by Mike 307 Comments

Mark Your Calendar: MLB announced 2013 postseason schedule
Austin backs up trash talk in Trenton's walk-off win in Game One of the playoffs
(Rich Schultz/Getty)
(Rich Schultz/Getty)

Despite yesterday’s dramatic come-from-behind win against Chris Sale and the White Sox, the Yankees saw their playoff chances decrease from 11.0% to 10.5% according to Baseball Prospectus. The Rays pounded the Angels late last night, so all New York’s win did was maintain their three-game deficit in the wildcard race loss column. Each day that ticks off the calendar without progress being made in the standings chips away at the team’s postseason odds. There are only 23 games left after tonight. Here’s the lineup Joe Girardi is running out there against rookie right-hander Erik Johnson, who is making his MLB debut:

  1. CF Brett Gardner
  2. SS Derek Jeter
  3. 2B Robinson Cano
  4. DH Alfonso Soriano
  5. LF Curtis Granderson
  6. 3B Alex Rodriguez
  7. RF Ichiro Suzuki
  8. 1B Lyle Overbay
  9. C Austin Romine

And on the mound is left-hander CC Sabathia. The ChiSox are the very worst hitting team against lefties in all of baseball (78 wRC+), so if CC can’t contain them tonight, I don’t want to think about what will happen the rest of the season. He needs to come up big tonight.

It’s been a damn near perfect weather day in New York. Great night for baseball. First pitch is scheduled for 7:05pm ET and can be seen on YES. Enjoy.

Mark Your Calendar: MLB announced 2013 postseason schedule
Austin backs up trash talk in Trenton's walk-off win in Game One of the playoffs

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