The Yankees won the first game of this season-ending series with the Red Sox last night, and with a win today and tomorrow, New York will match last season’s 85-77 record. That’s a bad thing after spending all that money on free agents this winter. Unless they manage to score 30 runs the next two games, they’ll score fewer runs than last year. On the other hand, they’ll also allow fewer runs than last year unless they somehow give up 22 runs in the final two games. That’s … good? Here is the Red Sox lineup and here is the Yankees lineup:
- RF Ichiro Suzuki
- DH Derek Jeter
- C Brian McCann
- 1B Chase Headley
- LF Chris Young
- SS Stephen Drew
- 2B Jose Pirela
- 3B Brendan Ryan
- CF Eury Perez
RHP Masahiro Tanaka
It’s a perfect fall day for baseball in Boston. Blue skies, a few clouds, cool and breezy. This afternoon’s game will begin at 1:05pm ET and you can watch on FOX. Regular old FOX, not FOX Sports 1. Enjoy the game.
Update: Neither Jacoby Ellsbury (hamstring) nor Dellin Betances will play again this year. Betances isn’t hurt, they’re just shutting him down due to his workload … David Robertson will pitch again if he has a chance to get his 40th save of the season (he’s at 39) … both Brett Gardner and Mark Teixeira will play tomorrow … the Red Sox were planning to use the Bob Sheppard recording to introduce Jeter before his at-bats (the Yankees and Sheppard’s family signed off), but Jeter shot it down, saying Sheppard’s voice belongs in Yankee Stadium. Yep.
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