Game 6: Yankees at Orioles

                                    April 11th, 2012, 7:05 ET, Camden Yards, Baltimore, Maryland.  


The Yankees are looking to secure their third straight win and the sweep when the battle the Baltimore Orioles tonight. The Yankees won last night after a clutch hit by Raul Ibanez that sunk the O's in extras. The Yankees are looking to get their first sweep of the season tonight. 


Here are the lineups. 


Yankees (2-3)
Derek Jeter, SS
Curtis Granderson, CF
Robinson Cano, 2B
Alex Rodriguez, 3B
Mark Teixeira, 1B
Nick Swisher, RF
Raul Ibanez, DH
Russell Martin, C
Brett Gardner, LF


Pitching: CC Sabathia LHP (0-0, 7.50 ERA this season)


Orioles (3-2)
Nolan Reimold, LF
J.J. Hardy, SS
Nick Markakis, RF
Adam Jones,CF
Matt Wieters, C
Mark Reynolds, 3B
Ronny Paulino, DH
Wilson Betemit, 1B
Robert Andino, 2B


Pitching: Jake Arrieta RHP (1-0, 0.00 ERA this season)


Enjoy the game!

Jorge Posada to Throw Out First Pitch Friday

The newly retired Jorge Posada will be throwing out the ceremonial first pitch on Friday when the Yankees host their home opener. Posada retired this offseason after a 17 big league career. He finished with a .273 batting average and 1,664 hits in his career. He won 5 World Series Championships with the Yankees, the last one in 2009.

Yankees Beat Writer Bryan Hoch tweeted that Derek Jeter isn't interest in catching the first pitch, but Mariano Rivera is.

The game starts at 1:05 ET. Be sure to tune in.

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Yanks' Rally to Top O's in Extras

A game full of twists and turns ended in the Yankees' favor on Tuesday night as they defeated the Baltimore Orioles in 12 innings. Freddy Garcia started the night and lasted only 4 1/2 innings. He gave up 4 R, 3 of them earned, on 4 hits. He was later relived by David Phelps, who is quickly impressing the coaching staff. Phelps struck out 4 batters over 2 1/3 innings of work while allowing no hits.

The Yankees' trailed 4-1 going into the 6th inning until the they plated 3 runs. With a Robinson Cano single and an Alex Rodriguez fly out, Mark Teixeira added with a single of his own. Curtis Granderson walked to load the bases and Andruw Jones hit a sacrifice fly to cut the lead to 4-2. The next batter was Russell Martin who hit a sharp ground ball to 3rd that Mark Reynolds blocked with his chest, but was unable to get the out at first; therefore Mark Teixeira scored cutting the O's lead to 4-3. Brett Gardner was next who quickly singled to right to plate Curtis Granderson and the score was tied at 4.

Nobody would score until the 12th inning, when Raul Ibanez was tested by Pedro Strop and the Orioles. Ibanez would hit a RBI ground rule double to give the Yankees' the 5-4 lead late.

That hit would prove to be enough as Mariano Rivera came in and notched his first save of the 2012 campaign.

The Yankees' were 1-14 with runners in scoring position tonight.

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Derek Jeter Makes More History

Derek Jeter made more history tonight as he launched his 25th career leadoff home run off of the Orioles starter, Wei-Yin Chen. He passed Ricky Henderson on the Yankees' all-time list.

Another record passed for Jeter. What's next?

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Freddy Garcia exits after 4 1/2

Freddy Garcia exited the ballgame after 4 1/2 innings. He allowed 4R, 3 ER on 4 hits. He struck out 3 and walked 3. Garcia threw 5 wild pitches, the most in a regular season game since Ken Howell on 4-5-1989 for the Phillies. 

Garcia didn't really have a grip on his splitter, missing in the dirt with it all night. 

Last season he had 4 wild pitches. He surpassed that tonight with 5 in one game. 

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