{"id":15338,"date":"2011-05-08T10:27:08","date_gmt":"2011-05-08T15:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=15338"},"modified":"2011-05-08T10:27:08","modified_gmt":"2011-05-08T15:27:08","slug":"american-league-showcase-new-york-yankees-at-texas-rangers-free-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/american-league-showcase-new-york-yankees-at-texas-rangers-free-picks-15338\/","title":{"rendered":"American League Showcase: New York Yankees at Texas Rangers Free Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Yankees and Texas Rangers have split the first two games of their three-game series heading into Sunday\u2019s contest in Arlington<\/p>\n

New York Yankees at Texas Rangers<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The New York Yankees have won 49 games with SP C.C. Sabathia on the mound since the start of the 2009 season<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

New York is set to play the final game of its seven-game road trip that began with a four-game series in Detroit (1-3) and bounce back from a disappointing 7-5 loss on Saturday night.\u00a0 The Yankees need a win to avoid losing back-to-back series for the first time this season.\u00a0 \u201cI think you go through these phases sometimes during the season, where everything\u2019s not really clicking the way that you want,\u201d outfielder Nick Swisher stated.\u00a0 \u201cIf having a bad game is going out there and putting five runs up on a team like the Texas Rangers, I\u2019ll take that.\u201d\u00a0 At 18-13 (.581), New York still owns the second-best winning percentage in the AL behind Cleveland (.688).\u00a0 The club is 8-3 in day games this season and 82-50 under the sun the past three years.<\/p>\n

Yankees starting pitcher C.C. Sabathia is 2-2 with a 2.68 ERA in seven starts this season and will be making his 16th career appearance against the Rangers.\u00a0 The left-hander has compiled an 8-3 record and 4.39 ERA versus Texas, allowing 97 hits in 92.1 innings of work.\u00a0 New York\u2019s bullpen has posted a 5.40 ERA in games in which Sabathia has started, twice blowing leads.\u00a0 He has started 49 Yankees wins since arriving in 2009, marking the most such starts among all Major League pitchers over that span.<\/p>\n

Texas aims for its first series win since sweeping Kansas City from April 22-24, but has won consecutive games just one time since starting the season with a 9-1 record.\u00a0 \u201cOur record isn\u2019t what we want right now, but I\u2019m proud of the way our team\u2019s battling,\u201d said Michael Young.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re taking a good team approach offensively right now.\u00a0 If we keep doing that we\u2019re going to be fine.\u201d\u00a0 He has a good chance of leading the charge this afternoon, coming in batting .362 in 47 career at-bats versus Sabathia.\u00a0 The club is 12-6 in Arlington this season, which marks the third-best record through 18 home games in franchise history.\u00a0 Texas is 7-7 in day games this year and 52-55 over the past three seasons.<\/p>\n

Rangers starting pitcher Dave Bush will make his second spot outing this season in replacing Alexi Ogando, who is suffering from a blister on his right index finger.\u00a0 Bush has posted a 1.46 ERA in four appearances this year and tossed three scoreless innings in a start against Detroit on April 13.\u00a0 The right-hander is 2-1 with a 3.56 ERA against the Yankees, but hasn\u2019t faced them since the 2005 campaign.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Yankees due to their 15-1 record in Sabathia\u2019s last 16 starts versus the American League West, while the Rangers are 2-6 against American League East foes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The New York Yankees and Texas Rangers have split the first two games of their three-game series heading into Sunday\u2019s contest in Arlington New York Yankees at Texas Rangers New York is set to play the final game of its seven-game road trip that began with a four-game series in Detroit (1-3) and bounce back […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444],"tags":[1695,265,2052,905,149,771],"class_list":["post-15338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-arlington","tag-cc-sabathia","tag-dave-bush","tag-michael-young","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-texas-rangers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15338"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15340,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15338\/revisions\/15340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}