POSTGAME NOTES

NEW YORK YANKEES (49-41) vs. SEATTLE MARINERS (42-49)

SATURDAY, JULY 18, 2015
SEATTLE MARINERS
NEW YORK YANKEES

R
4
3

STARTING TIME: 1:09 p.m.

GAME-TIME TEMPERATURE: 78 degrees
WINNING PITCHER: Hisashi Iwakuma (2-1)
LOSING PITCHER: Michael Pineda (9-6)
SAVE: Carson Smith (7)

H
7
7

E
0
0

LOB
5
5

SERIES
1
1

TIME OF GAME: 3:12

PAID ATTENDANCE: 46,119 (Sellout #6)
PITCH COUNTS (Total Pitches/Strikes:
Yankees: Michael Pineda (105/63)
Mariners: Hisashi Iwakuma (76/54)

HOME RUNS (2015 TOTAL / INNING / RUNNERS ON BASE / OUTS / COUNT / PITCHER / SCORE AFTER HR)
YANKEES
Brian McCann

(#15 / 4th / 1 on / 2 out / 0-1 / Iwakuma / NYY 2 SEA 2)

MARINERS
Robinson Cano (#7 / 1st / 1 on / 1 out / 0-0 / Pineda / SEA 2 NYY 0)
Robinson Cano (#8 / 6th / 1 on / 0 out / 0-1 / Pineda / SEA 4 NYY 2)

NEW YORK YANKEES NOTES

The Yankees honored the Special Operations Warrior Foundation and the U.S. Armed Forces with Military Appreciation Day, featuring the Gold Team
of the Army Golden Knights parachuting into the StadiumMaddeline and Mitchell Voas, the family of fallen Air Force Special Operations Pilot Major
Randell Voas, were recognized in a home plate ceremonyU.S. Air Force Chief Master Sergeant Matt Caruso threw out the ceremonial first
pitchcountry music recording artist and former Army Ranger Keni Thomas sang the national anthem.
The Yankees are still 23-16 (.590) since the start of Juneare 17-7 at home since 5/25had their seven-game winning streak over Seattle
snappedare still 4-1 vs. the Mariners in 2015.
RHP Michael Pineda (6.0IP, 6H, 4ER, 2BB, 2K, 2HR) started and took the losshad allowed just 3ER over 21.2IP combined in his previous three
startshas issued multiple walks in just 4-of-18 starts this season (all 2BB starts)tied a season high with 2HR allowed (5/22 vs. Texas)entered
today having allowed just 10HR in 106.1IP in 2015.
C Brian McCann (1-for-4) hit a two-run homer in the fourth, his 15th HR of the seasonentering today, the only Major League catcher with at least
15HR was Kansas Citys Salvador Perez (15HR)since joining the Yankees in 2014, McCann has hit 30 of his 38HR at Yankee Stadium.
Is the ninth catcher in the modern era (since 1900) to hit at least 15HR in 10-or-more seasons, having done so in each of the past 10 seasons
(2006-15)is the sixth catcher to do so in at least 10 consecutive seasons, joining Johnny Bench (13, 1968-80), Yogi Berra (12, 1949-60), Gary
Carter (11, 1977-87), Mike Piazza (10, 1993-2002) and Lance Parrish (10, 1982-91)NOTE: catcher is defined as a player who appeared at the
position in at least half his games played in a given season)McCann is also one of five Major Leaguers with at least 15HR in each of the last 10
seasons (Pujols, Ortiz, Cabrera, A. Gonzalez).
Has 5RBI in his last 3G and 13RBI in his last 14Ghas 58RBI in 74G in 2015; did not collect his 58th RBI of 2014 until his 116th game on 9/2/14.
LF Brett Gardner (1-for-4) extended his hitting streak to 8G with a sixth-inning singleis batting .344 (11-for-32) during the streak.
1B Mark Teixeira (2-for-4) recorded his 15th multi-hit game of the season with a single in the fourth and double in the ninthscored two of the
Yankees three runs39 of his 71 hits this season are XBH (17 doubles, 22HR).
Yankees batters have homered in 34-of-43 home games this season, hitting an average of 1.67HR/game (72HR/43G).

SEATTLE MARINERS NOTES

The Mariners improved to 22-22 on the road this seasonmarked their first win over the Yankees since 6/2/14 at Yankee Stadiumare 6-1 at Yankee
Stadium since 5/15/13.
Today marked Seattle's Major League-leading 52nd game decided by two-or-fewer runs this seasonare now 24-28 in such games this season and
18-15 in games decided by one run.
RHP Hisashi Iwakuma (5.2IP, 5H, 2ER, 0BB, 5K, 1HR) started and earned his second winhad his 11.0-inning scoreless streak snapped by McCanns
HR in the fourthhas allowed 2ER in 13.2IP (1.32 ERA) over his last two starts after permitting at least 4ER in each of his first four starts of the
seasonrecorded 0BB for the fourth time in six starts this year.
All four of the Mariners runs today and all seven of their runs in the series have scored on home runsthis season, 146 of their 319 total runs have
come via the homer (45.8%).
2B Robinson Cano (3-for-4) hit a pair of two-run HRs in the first and sixth innings, driving in all four Mariners runsmarked his 14th career multihomer game (all 2HR games) and his first as a Mariner (first since 7/1/13 at Minnesota w/ the Yankees)marked his first HRs as a visiting player at
Yankee Stadium after hitting 79HR here as a Yankeehis 81HR and 293RBI at the Stadium both rank second in the stadiums history (Teixeira-100HR,
294RBI)entering today, was just 2-for-18 vs. the Yankees in 2015.
Combined with Kyle Seagers 2HR game Friday, the duo is the fourth pair of visiting teammates to record multi-HR games in the same series at
the current Yankee Stadium, joining Oaklands Brandon Moss/Yoenis Cespedes (6/3-4/14), Oaklands Brandon Allen/Coco Crisp (8/23-24/11) and
Seattles Russell Branyan/Ichiro Suzuki (8/20-21/10)the Branyan/Suzuki combination also marks the last time the Mariners had multi-HR games
on consecutive days against any opponents.
The Mariners successfully overturned a first-inning call via replay review, changing a 6-3 putout into an infield single for RF Nelson Cruzthe review
took one minute, 15 seconds.

UPCOMING PROBABLE STARTING PITCHERS

Date
Sun., 7/19
Mon., 7/20

Opponent
vs. Seattle
Off Day

Probable Pitchers
LHP CC Sabathia (4-8, 5.47) vs. RHP Felix Hernandez (11-5, 2.84)

Time-ET
1:05 p.m.

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