This is the midst of a fairly easy stretch of baseball that the Yankees need to take advantage of. The Seattle Mariners come to town having lost 15 straight ballgames, a new franchise record.
The southpaw Vargas was rocked by the Yanks back in May, allowing six runs in three innings. Garcia hasn't faced Seattle in almost exactly a year, when he reversed Vargas' line: 6 ip, 3 er.
NYY - Jeter, Grandy, Tex, Cano, Swish (DH), Marty, Andruw, Wardo, GGBG
SEA - Ichiro, Ryan, Ackley, Olivo, Kennedy, Carp (DH), Smoak, Gutierrez, Halman
- Full on preview.
- Tickets can be found here.
- Look for the gamethread at 7 p.m.