New York Aims To Win Their 9th Straight As CC Sabathia Starts The Finale Against Los Angeles

The west coast has been nice to New York for the first two games as they've beaten Los Angeles. 

Sunday New York will look to not only sweep the Los Angeles Angels Of Anaheim but win their ninth straight game. 

New York comes into their  game against Los Angeles  with a record of 17-9 while Los Angeles comes into this game with a record of 16-11. "according to http://www.espn.com/mlb/standings

New York will send 37 -year old veteran left-hander CC Sabathia to the mound. He comes into the game against Los Angeles with a record of 1-0 to go along with a 1.86 earn run average. "according to http://www.espn.com/mlb/player/_/id/4553/cc-sabathia CC Sabathia

Sabathia generated plenty of soft contact in his last outing, a six-inning gem vs. the Twins to pick up his first win. He strained his left hamstring last June 13 in Anaheim after tossing four solid innings. "according to http://mlb.mlb.com/news/probable_pitchers/index.jsp?c_id=nyy He will oppose Los Angeles left-hander Tyler Skaggs. He comes into the game against New York with a record of 3-1 with a 2.96 earn run average. "according to http://www.espn.com/mlb/player/_/id/31221/tyler-skaggs Skaggs will make his first career start vs. the Yanks when he takes the mound for the finale. The lefty had his best start of the year Monday in Houston, throwing seven shutout innings over a 102-pitch outing, completing 7 for the first time in '18. "according to http://mlb.mlb.com/news/probable_pitchers/index.jsp?c_id=nyy

As for the previous game between New York and Los Angeles, New York routed Los Angeles on the way to their eight straight win.

New York backed up Japanese right -hander Masahiro Tanaka's six -inning nine -strikeout effort in a 11-1 route "according to  https://www.mlb.com/yankees/news/yankees-back-masahiro-tanaka-in-rout-of-angels/c-274310274

Aaron Hicks drove in three runs to highlight the early attack as the Yankees sent 20 men to the plate while dispatching starter Garrett Richards to the showers after 1 1/3 innings. Gary Sanchez and Miguel Andujar mashed run-scoring doubles as part of a five-run first, which also saw runs score on an error, groundout and passed ball. "according to https://www.mlb.com/yankees/news/yankees-back-masahiro-tanaka-in-rout-of-angels/c-274310274

"It's always good to have some run support," Tanaka said through an interpreter. "I don't know if this applies to all pitchers, but sometimes when you're waiting that long to get into the game, that can, at times, throw your rhythm off. That was kind of the challenge. For me, I was able to come through strong. I thought it was a good day." "according to https://www.mlb.com/yankees/news/yankees-back-masahiro-tanaka-in-rout-of-angels/c-274310274

After Tanaka set the Angels down in order on nine pitches, the Yankees repeated the feat in the second inning, tacking on another five runs in front of a sold-out crowd of 44,649 that once again loudly cheered for the visitors. Aaron Judge belted a run-scoring double and Hicks tripled in a pair before Neil Walker and Gleyber Torres singled home runs. "according to https://www.mlb.com/yankees/news/yankees-back-masahiro-tanaka-in-rout-of-angels/c-274310274

It marked the first time that the Yankees have batted around in each of the first two innings since July 24, 2007, at Kansas City, and it was the first time in history a team has done so against the Angels. New York leads the Majors in runs, homers, on-base percentage and slugging percentage. "according to https://www.mlb.com/yankees/news/yankees-back-masahiro-tanaka-in-rout-of-angels/c-274310274

"A lot of times, we have guys that are going to hit the ball out of the ballpark, but that's not always what it has to be," Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. "We've got the advantage of a couple of mistakes they made that allowed us to add some runs on early, but for the most part, those guys just made it really hard on the pitcher." "according to https://www.mlb.com/yankees/news/yankees-back-masahiro-tanaka-in-rout-of-angels/c-274310274

Richards was charged with nine runs (five earned) on five hits, as the Angels lost for the eighth time in 11 games following a 13-3 start to their season."according to https://www.mlb.com/yankees/news/yankees-back-masahiro-tanaka-in-rout-of-angels/c-274310274

Staked to the massive advantage, Tanaka breezed to his fourth victory in six starts. Mike Trout's single to open the fourth inning and Zack Cozart's solo homer in the fifth were the only hits the right-hander allowed in six innings as he improved to 2-0 with a 1.60 ERA in five career starts vs. the Angels."according to https://www.mlb.com/yankees/news/yankees-back-masahiro-tanaka-i

"He did a great job of sticking with his game plan," Boone said. "He still threw a lot of his secondary pitches in all counts, which is how he normally pitches. What I was pleased with, I didn't see anything change. He was on the attack, he was pounding the strike zone with his pitches, and there was no let-up at all." "according to https://www.mlb.com/yankees/news/yankees-back-masahiro-tanaka-in-rout-of-angels/c-274310274

The Yankees have outscored opponents 62-17 over the eight-game winning streak, which is their longest since April 9-17, 2017. "according to https://www.mlb.com/yankees/news/yankees-back-masahiro-tanaka-in-rout-of-angels/c-274310274

"Our approach of going into each and every game is pretty good," Tanaka said. "We're aggressive." "according to https://www.mlb.com/yankees/news/yankees-back-masahiro-tanaka-in-rout-of-angels/c-274310274

YOU GOTTA SEE THIS
Barreled up: Judge's 118.1-mph single in the first inning not only kick-started the Yankees' onslaught, it was the hardest hit ball in the Majors this season. He added a 115.4-mph double in the fourth inning, marking just the fourth occasion in which a player has recorded multiple base hits of at least 115 mph in a game since Statcast™ began tracking such data in 2015. Judge was also the last player to do it, on June 10, 2017."according to https://www.mlb.com/yankees/news/yankees-back-masahiro-tanaka-in-rout-of-angels/c-274310274

HE SAID IT
"I'm hungry and waiting for him." -- Torres, on responding with a second-inning single after being dusted by Eduardo Paredes with a 94-mph pitch up and in "according to https://www.mlb.com/yankees/news/yankees-back-masahiro-tanaka-in-rout-of-anMITEL

REPLAY OF THE DAY
The Yankees successfully challenged a call involving Walker at first base, extending the first inning and allowing their fourth run to score. Walker struck out, but the ball skipped past catcher Martin Maldonado, who retrieved it and threw to first. Though Walker was initially ruled out, that was overturned by review, with Sanchez scoring on the play.gels/c-274310274 "according to https://www.mlb.com/yankees/news/yankees-back-masahiro-tanaka-in-rout-of-angels/c-274310274

First pitch is set for 8:05pm on Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN. "according to https://www.mlb.com/yankees/news/yankees-back-masahiro-tanaka-in-rout-of-angels/c-274310274