Masahiro Tanaka is pitching his Bronx debut as the New York Yankees take on the Baltimore Orioles at Yankee Stadium and the game starts up at 7:05 pm ET and comes as the team got walloped on Tuesday and they are looking to get back to their winning ways and the matchup will be streaming online from the MLB.com website.
The Yankees are 4-4 on the season and while they have been dealing with some injuries, they have been able to stay afloat in the AL East in the early goings and now they will try to win in Tanaka's first start on US soil after he pitched against the Blue Jays in Toronto. The Yankees spent a ton of money this offseason and part of that was on Tanaka and he joins Jacoby Ellsbury, Brian McCann and Carlos Beltran as new additions and the team is hoping they can step and get things done on Wednesday at the Stadium. The team has been hitting well so far and they got shocked by the O's on Tuesday with an offensive explosion.
The Yankees lost 14-5 on the day and Ivan Nova got beat up in that game and after playing against the Orioles, the team opens up a series with the Red Sox and they will have Michael Pineda in for his second start of the season and he will go up against Clay Buchholz in that game and that will be on Thursday. That will be for a four game series and one of the matchups will be on the MLB network and the Sunday matchup will be on ESPN and that continues the long run the Yankees have had against division opponents and that will end against the Chicago Cubs at home before the team hits the road against the Tama Bay Rays next week.
The Yankees come into the game after scoring 29 runs over the first week and a half and they are 10th in batting average and seventh in on base percentage and while the home runs have not come yet, the team appears primed for a blowout. The team faces off against Miguel Gonzalez on Wednesday and they have hit him well before in the past. The team has four quality starts over the last eight games, while Baltimore comes in playing well with 36 runs over the first stretch and they are in the top 10 in runs and batting average in the early goings of the season. The pitching has not yet been up to par and they have just one quality start in that time.
The Yankees have a tough April schedule coming up, as they have an away series at Boston coming after the series in the Bronx and with the games against the Rays and Sox ahead, they play mostly divisional opponents before a set with the Angels and then the Mariners. Seattle comes in playing much better than last season and that will have Robinson Cano returning to the Bronx for the first time.
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