MLB Live Streaming: Tampa Bay Rays vs New York Yankees Online Broadcast Radio Commentary Major League Baseball Feed 8/12. CC Sabathia seems to have brought out the best in David Price in the past.
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These left-handers meet for the first time in 2011 on Friday night when the Tampa Bay Rays look to win their fifth straight in the opener of a three-game road set against the New York Yankees.
Both starters will have something to prove. Sabathia lost for the fourth time to Boston on Saturday, allowing a season-high seven runs over six innings in a 10-4 defeat.
He's 0-4 with a 7.20 ERA against the Red Sox and 16-2 with a 2.11 ERA versus everyone else. Sabathia failed to last at least seven innings for the first time in 11 starts.
"I've faced all of those guys a lot," Sabathia said. "When I'm right, I can beat anybody."
Price hasn't been able to beat anyone of late, going 0-3 with a 4.74 ERA in his last four outings. He's posted that same ERA in his last eight starts while winning one of five decisions.
"It's been frustrating the last month and a half," Price said. "It's going to change. It stinks."
Sabathia is 1-1 with a 1.06 ERA in two starts against the Rays (63-54) this year. Evan Longoria is 8 for 24 with three career homers against him.
Price is 0-1 with a 5.71 ERA in three outings against New York (71-45) in 2011. This is his first start at Yankee Stadium since giving up Derek Jeter's 3,000th hit while not receiving a decision in a 5-4 loss July 9.
Sabathia has posted a 1.40 ERA in winning his last five home starts, striking out 51 and yielding 26 hits over 38 2/3 innings.
New York is 5-4 against Tampa Bay this year, with Brett Gardner hitting .370 in the series and Robinson Cano going 10 for 33 with two homers and six RBIs.
Cano hit a grand slam in the seventh inning to key the Yankees' 6-5 win over Los Angeles on Thursday. Curtis Granderson's two-run shot in the sixth tied the game.
Granderson -- 5 for 24 with nine strikeouts against Price -- homered four times and drove in seven in the three-game series with the Angels. He has career highs of 32 homers and a major league-leading 93 RBIs while also topping baseball with 105 runs.
"He's got a lot of power, that's the bottom line," manager Joe Girardi said. "Some of the fly balls that he hits, they go out and some of the line drives that he hits, they go out."
Longoria has hit safely in eight straight games, with six RBIs over the last three. Tampa Bay capped a four-game sweep of Kansas City with Thursday's 4-1 victory.
The Yankees trail the AL East-leading Red Sox by one game. The Rays play those teams on this six-game trip and are 8 1/2 behind New York for the wild card.
"Playing in our division is always a gas, and going up there to do it makes it even more fun," manager Joe Maddon said. "Another good test for us. We're trying to climb back in this thing one step at a time. It's up to us."
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These left-handers meet for the first time in 2011 on Friday night when the Tampa Bay Rays look to win their fifth straight in the opener of a three-game road set against the New York Yankees.
Friday, August 12, 2011Sabathia (16-6, 2.81 ERA) has been outpitched by Price (9-10, 3.89) when they have met previously. Price is 2-0 with a 1.69 ERA in four such outings while Sabathia is 0-1 with a 6.00 ERA.
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Both starters will have something to prove. Sabathia lost for the fourth time to Boston on Saturday, allowing a season-high seven runs over six innings in a 10-4 defeat.
He's 0-4 with a 7.20 ERA against the Red Sox and 16-2 with a 2.11 ERA versus everyone else. Sabathia failed to last at least seven innings for the first time in 11 starts.
"I've faced all of those guys a lot," Sabathia said. "When I'm right, I can beat anybody."
Price hasn't been able to beat anyone of late, going 0-3 with a 4.74 ERA in his last four outings. He's posted that same ERA in his last eight starts while winning one of five decisions.
"It's been frustrating the last month and a half," Price said. "It's going to change. It stinks."
Sabathia is 1-1 with a 1.06 ERA in two starts against the Rays (63-54) this year. Evan Longoria is 8 for 24 with three career homers against him.
Price is 0-1 with a 5.71 ERA in three outings against New York (71-45) in 2011. This is his first start at Yankee Stadium since giving up Derek Jeter's 3,000th hit while not receiving a decision in a 5-4 loss July 9.
Sabathia has posted a 1.40 ERA in winning his last five home starts, striking out 51 and yielding 26 hits over 38 2/3 innings.
New York is 5-4 against Tampa Bay this year, with Brett Gardner hitting .370 in the series and Robinson Cano going 10 for 33 with two homers and six RBIs.
Cano hit a grand slam in the seventh inning to key the Yankees' 6-5 win over Los Angeles on Thursday. Curtis Granderson's two-run shot in the sixth tied the game.
Granderson -- 5 for 24 with nine strikeouts against Price -- homered four times and drove in seven in the three-game series with the Angels. He has career highs of 32 homers and a major league-leading 93 RBIs while also topping baseball with 105 runs.
"He's got a lot of power, that's the bottom line," manager Joe Girardi said. "Some of the fly balls that he hits, they go out and some of the line drives that he hits, they go out."
Longoria has hit safely in eight straight games, with six RBIs over the last three. Tampa Bay capped a four-game sweep of Kansas City with Thursday's 4-1 victory.
The Yankees trail the AL East-leading Red Sox by one game. The Rays play those teams on this six-game trip and are 8 1/2 behind New York for the wild card.
"Playing in our division is always a gas, and going up there to do it makes it even more fun," manager Joe Maddon said. "Another good test for us. We're trying to climb back in this thing one step at a time. It's up to us."