For the second straight game, the Yankees handled the Tigers fairly easily in Saturday’s 10-6 win. Like CC Sabathia before him, A.J. Burnett wasn’t at his sharpest but still very effective. The 3rd-year Yankee collected six strikeouts in five innings and allowed three earned runs and five hits. The story of this game, however, was the offense. Mark Teixeira and Russell Martin each had a three-run HR, and Alex Rodriguez added a solo shot of his own. Teixeira’s home run was his second in as many games, and it looks as though he may finally be figuring out his early-season slumps. Derek Jeter added two hits of his own as he continues to push for 3,000 career hits.
Today it will be Phil Hughes taking the bump for the Yankees as he will look to build upon an All-Star campaign and establish himself among the game’s elite pitchers. He will be opposed by one of the Tigers’ young studs, Max Scherzer, who will try to put Detroit in the win column for the first time in 2011.
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A.L. EAST STANDINGS
NEW YORK……..2-0
Baltimore……….2-0
Toronto………….2-0
Boston……………0-2 (2.0 GB)
Tampa Bay………0-2 (2.0 GB)
DATE: Sunday, April 3rd
TIME: 1:05pm
TV/RADIO: YES, WCBS 880, WADO 1280 (Spanish)
PITCHING PROBABLES
DET: Max Scherzer (0-0, -.– ERA)
NYY: Phil Hughes (0-0, -.– ERA)
PITCHING PREVIEW (from MLB.com)
Max Scherzer (DET): Few pitchers in baseball were more dominant after Memorial Day last year than Scherzer, 11-7 with a 2.46 ERA in that stretch. Now he hopes to start out that way. Commanding his offspeed pitches will be key to whether he can.
Scherzer vs. Yankees
Phil Hughes (NYY): Coming off an 18-win season, Hughes makes his first start of 2011 with a chance to push the Yankees to a sweep of the Tigers and a 3-0 record. Hughes allowed 10 runs on 24 hits in 22 Grapefruit League innings, striking out 14.
Hughes vs. Tigers
LINEUPS
Tigers (0-2)
Jackson CF
Santiago 2B
Boesch DH
Cabrera 1B
Martinez C
Raburn LF
Kelly RF
Peralta SS
Inge 3B
Yankees (2-0)
Gardner LF
Jeter SS
Teixeira 1B
Rodriguez 3B
Cano 2B
Swisher RF
Posada DH
Granderson CF
Martin C
MILESTONE TRACKER
Derek Jeter: 2-4, 2 R — 72 hits from 3,000
Mariano Rivera: 1/3 IP, 0 H, 0 ER, SV — 39 saves from 600, 41 from all-time saves record
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