Saturday, April 5, 2008

Yankees vs. Rays - April 5

1:05 Start on YES

Andy Pettitte makes his season debut today as the Yankees take on the Rays in the 2nd game of a 4 game series. No word yet, but it's expected that Jon Albaladejo will be optioned down to Scranton to make room on the 25-man roster.

Here are today's lineups courtesy of Peter Abraham.

RAYS
Iwamura 2B
Crawford LF
Pena 1B
Upton CF
Gomes RF
Aybar 3B
Bartlett SS
Riggans C
Johnson DH
Jackson RHP


YANKEES
Damon CF
Jeter SS
Abreu RF
Rodriguez 3B
Giambi DH
Cano 2B
Posada C
Matsui LF
Duncan 1B
Pettitte LHP

Derek Jeter (4-8) and Hideki Matsui (4-9) have had the most success against Jackson. Carlos Pena is 7-18 against Pettitte with 2 home runs and 2 triples. Carl Crawford is hitting .357 (5-14) against the left-hander.

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