Yankees vs. Orioles - 4/18

The Yankees start a 3-game series with the Orioles tonight in Baltimore. Tonight is the first game on my9 on whatever it's called now. Saturday is another game thanks to those fine folks at the WeaselFox Network, and things wrap up with a Sunday afternoon contest.

Beautiful time to be in Baltimore before all the humidity hits and the endless whining by Michael Kay about it. If you have never been to the Inner Harbor area, do yourself a favor and go. Some great sight seeing and good eats. The city has really done a great job in rehabbing the area.

The Yankees need a big game out of Dr. Phil Good tonight. Hughes (0-2, 9.00) has been miserable in his last two starts, but tonight he'll have the perfect weather to pitch in. It'll be sunny and 79, with relatively low humidity, at first pitch.

The Orioles are going with their great enigma, Daniel Cabrera. If Cabrera (0-0, 5.94) is off his game, which happens more times than not, this could be a 4 hour game...by the 3rd inning.

Bet of the night - Michael Kay, in referring to Cabrera, will say, "He's like the little girl with the curl. He's either very good or very bad." We will then have to be restrained from attacking the television set.

On another Kay has reported on an his talk show that Edwar Ramirez has been called up and Jonathan Albaladejo, who threw 48 pitches last night, will mostly likely be heading back to Scranton. Still no Scott Patterson.

Hughes is 1-0, 3.38 in 2 career starts against the O's. Nick Markakis has given him the most trouble, going 2- 6 with 3 RBI. Brian Roberts is just 1-6.

Cabrera is 3-6, 4.95 with 1 complete game in 13 career starts against the Yankees.

Among those chomping at the bit tonight will be Alex Rodriguez (10-27, .370 2 HR 6 RBI 3 BB) and Hidkei Matsui (11-30, .367 1 HR 5 RBI 4 BB).

Here are what the rest of the Yankees have done against Cabrera:

Bobby Abreu .235 (4-17) 2 RBI, 4 BB
Melky Cabrera .167 (2-12) 4 RBI 2 BB
Robinson Cano .227 (5-22) 1 RBI 1 BB
Johnny Damon .190 (4-21) 5 RBI 2 BB
Jason Giambi .250 (2-8) 11 BB
Alberto Gonzalez 0-2
Derek Jeter .250 (7-28) 2 RBI 3 BB
Jorge Posada .286 (6-21) 1 RBI 3 BB
Jose Molina (0-4) 1 BB

The batting averages aren't much, which shows you how much the walks, hit batters, and wild pitches have killed Cabrera.

Happy Birthday to infielder Alberto Gonzalez, 25 today.

Update: 4:20 p.m. EDT (lineups from Peter Abraham)

YANKEES
Damon LF
Jeter SS
Abreu RF
Rodriguez 3B
Matsui DH
Cano 2B
Giambi 1B
Cabrera CF
Moeller C

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