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Blue Jays vs. Yankees (Game #51)

Posted on May 15, 2011 at 04:48 PM.

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With the Boston Red Sox and the Tampa Bay Rays both losing earlier in the day, the New York Yankees needed a win to help gain some ground in a tight AL East division. As luck would have it, they sent their ace CC Sabathia to the mound. However, the Toronto Blue Jays countered with Brett Cecil, the young southpaw who has given the Yankees fits over the past year due to his exceptional changeup.

Sabathia started off strong striking out two in the first three and cruised threw six. Along the way though, the Blue Jays drove his pitch count up by extending at-bats. He ended the game with seven strikeouts while allowing only seven baserunners.

"Their hitters did a great job making CC throw a lot of pitches during each at-bat," said Joe Girardi, Yankees manager. "I would have left him in there after the sixth, but he was just over 110 pitches at that point, so we decided to go to the bullpen."

The bullpen didn't disappoint. David Robertson, Rafael Soriano and Mariano Rivera kept the door closed on the Blue Jays hitters over three innings. Giving up only one hit and one walk.

"Coming into the season we thought the bullpen would be a strength of this team," said Robertson. "It seems each of us bring something different to the table, which is helping us win games."

Cecil, coming into the game losing his last three, pitched a marvelous game but couldn't get any runs from his offense.

"It's disappointing," he said. "We had a few opportunities, but that's how the game works sometimes. You just have to go back out there the next time and hope to give the team chances like this again."

His only blemish came from a fifth inning home run by Robinson Cano. Cecil said that the slider came out "flat" and "didn't bite" like in previous innings.

The Yankees are now eight games back of Boston and only two games back of Tampa Bay. New York are winners of their last five and hold a record of 8-2 over their last ten games. The Bombers have a day off and then start a weekend series with the Seattle Mariners that won't feature Felix Hernandez who's next scheduled start isn't until Monday.

TOR at NYY - Yankees Stadium
May 25, 2011	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Toronto Blue Jays (22-28)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	0
New York Yankees (29-22)	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	2	1
W: CC Sabathia (5-4) L: Brett Cecil (1-5) S: Mariano Rivera (13)

Scoring Summary
SCORING DETAILS			TOR	NYY
	5	Cano homered to RF	0	1

Toronto Blue Jays
HITTERS	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	HR	AVG
Davis, CF	4	0	0	0	0	2	0	.272
Escobar, SS	4	0	2	0	0	0	0	.214
Arencibia, C	4	0	0	0	0	2	0	.184
Bautista, RF	3	0	2	0	1	0	0	.304
Rivera, DH	4	0	0	0	0	1	0	.286
Snider, LF	4	0	0	0	0	1	0	.246
Hill, 2B	3	0	2	0	1	0	0	.271
Nix, 3B	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	.071
Lind, 1B	3	0	1	0	0	1	0	.249
TEAM TOTALS	32	0	7	0	2	8	0
BATTING: 2B: Hill (9) GIDP: Rivera, Nix

New York Yankees
HITTERS	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	HR	AVG
Jeter, SS	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	.214
Granderson, CF	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	.247
Teixeira, 1B	3	0	0	0	0	2	0	.267
Rodriguez, DH	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	.212
Cano, 2B	2	1	2	1	1	0	0	.284
Martin, C	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	.319
Swisher, RF	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	.279
Jones, RF	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	.284
Nunez, 3B	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	.333
TEAM TOTALS	25	1	2	1	2	4	1
BATTING: HR: Cano (9) RBI: Cano (27) GIDP: Martin

Toronto Blue Jays
PITCHERS	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA
Cecil (L, 1-5)	7.0	2	1	1	2	4	1	4.25
Rauch	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5.32
TEAM TOTALS	8.0	2	1	1	2	4	1
PITCHING: Pitches-Strikes: Cecil (102 - 57%), Rauch (5 - 80%)

New York Yankees
PITCHERS	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA
Sabathia (W, 5-4)	6.0	6	0	0	1	7	0	5.83
Robertson (H, 5)	1.0	1	0	0	1	1	0	2.96
Soriano (H, 9)	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4.01
Rivera (S,13)	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2.01
TEAM TOTALS	9.0	7	0	0	2	8	0
PITCHING: Pitches-Strikes: Sabathia (111 - 67%), Robertson (26 - 63%), Soriano (7 - 71%), Rivera (11 - 82%)