CC Sabathia gets career-high 14K, as New York Yankees defeat Seattle Mariners 4-1 – MLB Update
Carsten Charles Sabathia carried his best impetus of his career to help the New York Yankees overpower Seattle Mariners 4-1 in the second game at Yankee Stadium in New York on Tuesday July 26 to take 2-0 lead in the three-game series.
31-year-old left-hander struck-out first seven batters he faced to set the crushing foundation for his fifteenth win of the season. He completed his seven innings and struck-out fourteen batters to destroy the struggling Mariners to improve his record to
15-5 with 2.56 ERA.
After Tampa Bay Rays shattered his seven game streak in the last outing, Sabathia was in a furious mood to take his winning streak back. He cost the Mariners their 17th straight loss in a row.
"We did have a few pitches to hit tonight that we missed. That's been kind of the story of our season offensively," Mariners’ manager Eric Wedge said. "When you're facing good pitching like that you may get one good pitch per at-bat, you just can't miss
'em."
Sabathia held the Mariners from base running positions until the seventh inning when Brendan Ryan drove in a single to nip the hitless game for his team. Fourteen strike-outs of 25 batters was his career high record.
Cutis Granderson launched a 333-feet long one-run homer in the fourth inning to take 1-0 lead. It was his 28th home run of the 2011 regular season. Eric Chavez and Derek Jeter each scored an RBI single in the fifth inning to help Sabathia with
a strong 3-0 position.
After Justin Smoak scored his first run for the Mariners in the eighth inning, the Yankees’ Mark Teixeira hammered a ballistic homer to right-field to finalise the game 4-1 in the bottom of the eighth inning. Teixeira also joined the Granderson with same
28 homers in 2011.
David Robertson earned his 20th save, throwing a crushing single inning while the 41-year-old closer Mariano Rivera gained his 26th save taking two strike-outs without allowing any hit in the ninth inning.
Mariners’ starter Doug Fister scattered three runs on seven hits, walked one and struck-out five batters but lost his 12th game of the season. It was his fifth straight since July 2. Closer Jamey Wright also went for one run on a homer over one
inning.
"It's unfortunate that we're not having the ball roll our way but we're still coming in expecting to win," Doug Fister said.
Although the Yankees’ starter Phil Hughes will make a start in next outing, New York still has a firm belief in getting their series sweep in this season.
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