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Roger Mooney covers the Tampa Bay Rays for The Tampa Tribune, TBO.com and News Channel 8. He has covered the Rays since their first season in 1998, including 11 years for the Bradenton Herald. Roger has also covered Florida, South Florida and Florida State football, the Bucs and the Lightning.

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Price v Sabathia II

Posted Sep 23, 2010 by Roger Mooney

Updated Sep 23, 2010 at 05:18 PM

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ROGER MOONEY
NEW YORK— No batting practice this afternoon for either team, which means the first real activity on the field, aside from Amar’e Stoudmire of the Knicks throwing out the first pitch, will be the Rays first turn at CC Sabathia followed by the Yankees first cuts at David Price.

This is a big game for the Rays, who will trim Yankees lead in the AL East to a half-game with a win. It will also give them a split of the four-game series, which would be a neat trick being they lost the first two games.

No Carlos Pena for the second straight day, though he is available later for defense. Pena is batting .144 with 19 strikeouts in 35 at-bats against the Yankees latest 20-game winner.

This is interesting: Dan Johnson is batting .556 with two doubles in nine at-bats against Sabathia. Johnson, however, is not in the lineup.

Sabathia is 16-3 with a 2.53 ERA in his last 20 starts. He’s the fourth Yankee pitcher since 1956 (the first year the Cy Young Award was awarded) to become the first 20-game winner in the majors. The other three—Bob Turley (1958), White Ford (1961) and Ron Guidry (1978) each won the Cy Young Award.

Sabathia is also the first African-American pitcher to win 20 games since Dontrelle Willis of the Marlins in 2005 and the first in the AL since Dave Stewart of the A’s in 1990.

Sabathia took the loss in his last start at the Stadium, which came Sept. 7 against the Orioles. Prior to that he was unbeaten in 21 straight home starts, going 16-0 with five no-decisions while the Yankees went 19-2.

No lineup from the Yankees yet.

Here is the Rays lineups with their batting average against Sabathia:

Upton CF (.296, 2 HR)
Bartlett SS (.292, 1 HR)
Crawford LF (.275, 3 doubles)
Longoria 3B (.294, 2 HR)
Zobrist 1B (.318, 1 HR)
Baldelli RF (.231, 2 doubles)
Aybar DH (.200, 1 HR)
Shoppach C (.333)
Rodriguez (.167)
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Price LHP (17-6, 2,79)