![]() He is 9-0 with a 2.04 ERA in his last 11 starts and has matched his career high for wins, set with Cleveland two years ago. Sabathia struck out eight and walked two, lowering his ERA to 3.21. This time he retired his first 11 batters before walking Victor Martinez in the fourth, and he allowed his only hit when Mike Lowell singled up the middle past second baseman Cano leading off the fifth. ![]() 8 before Jacoby Ellsbury singled and pitched shutout ball over 7 2-3 innings that day. Sabathia pitched 5 2-3 hitless innings against Red Sox on Aug. ![]() The runs were unearned because shortstop Chris Woodward dropped the ball for an error during a rundown after pinch-runner Brett Gardner got caught off third on a ball in the dirt. They can wrap up the AL East on Sunday when they play the Red Sox for the final time this season.īoston's magic number for a playoff berth stayed stuck at three.Ĭano homered in the sixth inning, and Johnny Damon added a two-out, two-run single in the eighth off former Mets closer Billy Wagner, who entered to boos in his first game in New York since Boston acquired him last month. Already assured of no worse than the wild card, the Yankees have won eight of nine against their rival after starting the season 0-8 against Boston. Sabathia (19-7) allowed just one hit in seven innings to outduel Daisuke Matsuzaka (3-6) as New York cut to one the magic number for its first division title since 2006. Facebook Email This article is more than 13 years old.ĬC Sabathia combined on a two-hitter to become the major leagues' first 19-game winner, Robinson Cano hit a tiebreaking, opposite-field homer off the top of the left-field fence and the New York Yankees closed in on the AL East title with a 3-0 victory over the Boston Red Sox on Saturday.
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