{"id":18261,"date":"2011-10-03T09:13:52","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T14:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=18261"},"modified":"2011-10-03T09:13:52","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T14:13:52","slug":"sabathia-vs-verlander-new-york-yankees-at-detroit-tigers-major-league-baseball-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/sabathia-vs-verlander-new-york-yankees-at-detroit-tigers-major-league-baseball-playoffs-18261\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabathia vs. Verlander: New York Yankees at Detroit Tigers Major League Baseball Playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Yankees and Detroit Tigers American League Division Series is tied, 1-1, as both teams will be sending out their respective aces Monday night at Comerica Park.<\/p>\n

New York Yankees at Detroit Tigers<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Detroit Tigers are 40-15 in SP Justin Verlander's last 55 home starts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

New York has compiled a 14-7 record in best-of-five postseason series since the 1976 season, but dropped a 5-3 contest in Game 2 to Detroit.\u00a0 The Yankees didn\u2019t go down without a fight, scoring two runs in the final frame, but the rally was finally extinguished by Tigers closer Jose Valverde.\u00a0 \u201cYou think that something good is going to happen for us,\u201d commented Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter.\u00a0 \u201cBut Valverde, it\u2019s hard enough to score a run off him, let alone four.\u201d\u00a0 The Yankees are 22-27 all-time versus the Tigers at Comerica Park.\u00a0 New York is 63-50 versus right-handed starters this year and 40-26 after a loss.<\/p>\n

Yankees starting pitcher CC Sabathia is 19-8 with a 3.00 ERA in 33 regular season starts this season had his first playoff outing halted by rain in the early portion of Game 1 in this series.\u00a0 The left-hander had allowed a home run in two innings and will face the Tigers Cy Young candidate for the second time in three nights.\u00a0 Sabathia registered an 11-5 record and 2.93 ERA in 17 road starts, surrendering just seven home runs in 120 innings.\u00a0 In 32 career starts versus the Tigers, he is 15-12 with a 4.54 ERA, including a 4-2 loss at tonight\u2019s venue on May 3 (7 IP, 4 R).<\/p>\n

Detroit has been here before against New York, winning Games 3 and 4 at Comerica in the 2006 ALDS, which will give the team confidence in also winning 16 of its last 20 home games.\u00a0 The Tigers are hoping that first baseman Miguel Cabrera can carry the club in the Motor City, as he\u2019s batting .577 with four home runs and seven RBIs in his last six games at tonight\u2019s venue.\u00a0 He led the AL with a .344 batting average during the 2011 season.\u00a0 Detroit is 31-22 versus left-handed starters and 50-32 at home.<\/p>\n

Tigers starting pitcher Justin Verlander is 24-5 with a 2.40 ERA in 34 regular season starts and will be looking to continue his great success in front of the home faithful.\u00a0 The right-hander registered a 10-3 record and 2.37 ERA in 16 home starts, as opponents hit just .198 against him.\u00a0 In 10 career starts versus the Yankees, Verlander is 4-3 with a 3.97 ERA, including a 5-3 no-decision effort at Comerica Park on May 2.\u00a0 He allowed three runs and eight hits in six frames.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Tigers due to their 40-15 record in Verlander\u2019s last 55 home starts, while the Yankee are 1-4 in Sabathia\u2019s last five road starts versus a team with a winning record.<\/p>\n

Get the latest MLB betting odds at Bookmaker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The New York Yankees and Detroit Tigers American League Division Series is tied, 1-1, as both teams will be sending out their respective aces Monday night at Comerica Park. New York Yankees at Detroit Tigers New York has compiled a 14-7 record in best-of-five postseason series since the 1976 season, but dropped a 5-3 contest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444],"tags":[265,2126,48,104,149],"class_list":["post-18261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-cc-sabathia","tag-comerica-park","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-justin-verlander","tag-new-york-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18261","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=18261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18262,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18261\/revisions\/18262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}