<table class="tableBody" bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1" width="100%"><tbody><tr class="tableBody" bgcolor="#f2f2e8"><td valign="top"><nobr>David Ortiz
, Bos DH</nobr>
<nobr>News Archive
</nobr><nobr>Boston Red Sox</nobr>
</td><td valign="top">Ortiz is not in the starting lineup for Sunday's game against the Yankees, the Boston Globe reports.
Spin:
With lefty CC Sabathia getting the call, Ortiz (.299 OBP against LHP) will yield the start to Mike Lowell, while Kevin Youkilis plays third base and Victor Martinez starts at first.
Sun, Aug 23
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</td></tr><tr class="tableBody" bgcolor="#f8f8f2"><td valign="top"><nobr>J.D. Drew
, Bos OF</nobr>
<nobr>News Archive
</nobr><nobr>Boston Red Sox</nobr>
</td><td valign="top">Drew is sitting against CC Sabathia and the Yankees on Sunday night, the Boston Globe reports.
Spin:
Rocco Baldelli is starting in right field and batting seventh while Drew sits out on Sunday night.
Sun, Aug 23
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</td></tr><tr class="tableBody" bgcolor="#f2f2e8"><td valign="top"><nobr>Jorge Posada
, NYY C</nobr>
<nobr>News Archive
</nobr><nobr>New York Yankees</nobr>
</td><td valign="top">Posada is not in the starting lineup for Sunday night's game against the Red Sox, the Westchester Journal-News reports.
Spin:
He's the only notable absence for the Yankees on Sunday night with their other eight regulars all penciled into the lineup. No injury is being reported at this time, we'll consider it a day off unless we hear otherwise.
Sun, Aug 23
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</td></tr></tbody></table>
, Bos DH</nobr>
<nobr>News Archive
</nobr><nobr>Boston Red Sox</nobr>
</td><td valign="top">Ortiz is not in the starting lineup for Sunday's game against the Yankees, the Boston Globe reports.
Spin:
With lefty CC Sabathia getting the call, Ortiz (.299 OBP against LHP) will yield the start to Mike Lowell, while Kevin Youkilis plays third base and Victor Martinez starts at first.
Sun, Aug 23
</td><td valign="top">
, Bos OF</nobr>
<nobr>News Archive
</nobr><nobr>Boston Red Sox</nobr>
</td><td valign="top">Drew is sitting against CC Sabathia and the Yankees on Sunday night, the Boston Globe reports.
Spin:
Rocco Baldelli is starting in right field and batting seventh while Drew sits out on Sunday night.
Sun, Aug 23
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, NYY C</nobr>
<nobr>News Archive
</nobr><nobr>New York Yankees</nobr>
</td><td valign="top">Posada is not in the starting lineup for Sunday night's game against the Red Sox, the Westchester Journal-News reports.
Spin:
He's the only notable absence for the Yankees on Sunday night with their other eight regulars all penciled into the lineup. No injury is being reported at this time, we'll consider it a day off unless we hear otherwise.
Sun, Aug 23
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SABATHIA is 3-7 when starting against BOSTON with an ERA of 4.54 and a WHIP of 1.295.
His team's record is 3-8 (-5.8 units) in these starts. The UNDER is 8-2. (+5.8 units)
BECKETT is 10-5 when starting against NY YANKEES with an ERA of 4.47 and a WHIP of 1.369.
His team's record is 11-7 (+5.1 units) in these starts. The OVER is 10-8. (+1.8 units)
His team's record is 3-8 (-5.8 units) in these starts. The UNDER is 8-2. (+5.8 units)
BECKETT is 10-5 when starting against NY YANKEES with an ERA of 4.47 and a WHIP of 1.369.
His team's record is 11-7 (+5.1 units) in these starts. The OVER is 10-8. (+1.8 units)
Yankees' CC Sabathia and Red Sox's Josh Beckett are set for duel in finale
BY Anthony Mccarron
DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER
BOSTON - CC Sabathia would like nothing better than to take away one of the potential choices Joe Girardi will face tonight when the former Cy Young winner starts the finale of the Yankees' three-game series at Fenway. "I'm trying to get deeper in the game with a lower pitch count so Joe doesn't have to make a tough decision come the seventh or eighth inning," Sabathia said.
If any Yankee can do that, it's the lefty ace. Not only has he pitched into the seventh inning or beyond 21 times in his 26 starts this season, he's also on one of his typical August hot streaks, so he's pitching well enough to go deep.
Entering his start tonight against Red Sox ace Josh Beckett, Sabathia has won 10 consecutive August starts, the longest August winning streak in the majors. Sabathia is 4-0 this month and has raised his record to 14-7. Since allowing four runs in the third inning of his start against the White Sox on Aug. 2, Sabathia has thrown 27-2/3innings and allowed just four runs, a 1.30 ERA. During that stretch, Sabathia threw 7-2/3 scoreless innings against the Red Sox at Yankee Stadium Aug. 8, a start in which he retired the first 13 batters he faced and carried a no-hitter into the sixth inning.
"Just keep pounding the strike zone, get ahead and put guys away," said Sabathia, who is 3-5 with a 3.57 ERA in nine career starts against Boston.
Sabathia versus Beckett pits two Cy Young Award candidates against each other. Beckett is 14-4 with a 3.38 ERA and has thrown 16 consecutive scoreless innings against the Yankees since allowing three runs in the third inning of his May 5 start in the Bronx. The last time he faced the Yankees, Beckett threw seven shutout innings at the Stadium Aug.7.
While Girardi acknowledged it was "a great pitching matchup" and admitted that he looks forward to it, Sabathia clung to the old starting pitcher maxim - "I don't have to face him, I just have to pitch against their lineup."
Sabathia went on: "He's a great pitcher and he's beat me in the past, but we'll see what happens. We have a good enough offense that I feel like if I can go out and put up zeroes, we're going to score some runs. He's great, but I have a lot of confidence in this offense."
BY Anthony Mccarron
DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER
BOSTON - CC Sabathia would like nothing better than to take away one of the potential choices Joe Girardi will face tonight when the former Cy Young winner starts the finale of the Yankees' three-game series at Fenway. "I'm trying to get deeper in the game with a lower pitch count so Joe doesn't have to make a tough decision come the seventh or eighth inning," Sabathia said.
If any Yankee can do that, it's the lefty ace. Not only has he pitched into the seventh inning or beyond 21 times in his 26 starts this season, he's also on one of his typical August hot streaks, so he's pitching well enough to go deep.
Entering his start tonight against Red Sox ace Josh Beckett, Sabathia has won 10 consecutive August starts, the longest August winning streak in the majors. Sabathia is 4-0 this month and has raised his record to 14-7. Since allowing four runs in the third inning of his start against the White Sox on Aug. 2, Sabathia has thrown 27-2/3innings and allowed just four runs, a 1.30 ERA. During that stretch, Sabathia threw 7-2/3 scoreless innings against the Red Sox at Yankee Stadium Aug. 8, a start in which he retired the first 13 batters he faced and carried a no-hitter into the sixth inning.
"Just keep pounding the strike zone, get ahead and put guys away," said Sabathia, who is 3-5 with a 3.57 ERA in nine career starts against Boston.
Sabathia versus Beckett pits two Cy Young Award candidates against each other. Beckett is 14-4 with a 3.38 ERA and has thrown 16 consecutive scoreless innings against the Yankees since allowing three runs in the third inning of his May 5 start in the Bronx. The last time he faced the Yankees, Beckett threw seven shutout innings at the Stadium Aug.7.
While Girardi acknowledged it was "a great pitching matchup" and admitted that he looks forward to it, Sabathia clung to the old starting pitcher maxim - "I don't have to face him, I just have to pitch against their lineup."
Sabathia went on: "He's a great pitcher and he's beat me in the past, but we'll see what happens. We have a good enough offense that I feel like if I can go out and put up zeroes, we're going to score some runs. He's great, but I have a lot of confidence in this offense."
