CC Sabathia has been one of baseball's best this season and will want to continue off his success when he takes the mound for the New York Yankees in their road contest against the Colorado Rockies Thursday afternoon at 3:10 pm ET.
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New York is a baseball-best 40-19 in interleague play since the start of 2010 after beating Colorado 3-2 on Wednesday. Vernon Wells hit a two-run homer and pinch-hitter Brennan Boesch had an infield RBI single in the ninth for the Yankees (19-13), who had lost three of four.
Wells even played third base in the final inning for the first time, making a play on a grounder.
"That was one of the cooler moments of my career," the 34-year-old Wells said.
A major reason for New York's interleague success has been the performances of Sabathia, who is 9-1 with a 2.40 ERA in his last 11 starts versus the NL. He has the second-most interleague victories in the past three-plus years behind Detroit's Justin Verlander (10).
Sabathia (4-3, 3.31 ERA) was stellar the only time he faced the Rockies since joining New York, allowing one run and striking out nine in eight innings of an 8-3 victory June 25, 2011.
The left-hander, though, is coming off his shortest outing since opening day, and frustrations seemed to boil over with home-plate umpire Jordan Baker. Sabathia allowed both runs and eight hits in six innings of a 2-0 loss to Oakland on Friday.
Though Sabathia exchanged words with Baker in the third inning, manager Joe Girardi felt he pitched well despite giving up a home run on the first pitch of the game.
"He only gave up two runs, and he gave up one before he got an out," Girardi said. "They fouled some pitches off. They got in some long counts, which made him throw a lot of pitches in the sixth inning, but I thought he threw OK."
