5-4!

Although the A's trailed early by a rather large margin for them, an unlikely pair of long balls brought them back to life.  One measly fly ball by Burns just cleared the wall was the first dent and not much later a clutch Lawrie 2 run blast tied up the game.

Athletics 5, Yankees 4 FINAL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E New York (25-23) 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 4 8 0 Oakland (18-32) 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 0 x 5 9 1 W: E. Scribner (1-0) L: C. Sabathia (2-7) S: T. Clippard (5) HR: NYY - B. McCann (7)   OAK - B. Burns (2),B. Lawrie (3) BOX SCORE|RECAP|GAMETRACKER

New York (A.L.) Yankees HITTERS AB R H RBI BB SO LOB AVG OBP SLG Brett Gardner, LF 5 1 3 1 0 0 0 .288 .366 .442 Chase Headley, 3B 5 0 1 0 0 1 2 .251 .309 .409 Alex Rodriguez, DH 3 1 1 1 0 1 0 .277 .372 .561 Mark Teixeira, 1B 3 0 0 0 1 0 1 .239 .360 .568 Brian McCann, C 4 1 3 2 0 1 0 .254 .321 .458 Carlos Beltran, RF 4 0 0 0 0 1 1 .238 .269 .391 Stephen Drew, 2B 4 0 0 0 0 0 2 .162 .232 .311 Chris Young, CF 3 0 0 0 1 2 2 .229 .288 .459 Didi Gregorius, SS 3 0 0 0 0 0 2 .206 .268 .279    a-Garrett Jones, PH 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 .235 .278 .353 CC Sabathia, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000    David Carpenter, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000    Chasen Shreve, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 Totals 34 4 8 4 3 6         a-walked for Gregorius in the 9th BATTING 2B - Brett Gardner (10, Clippard) HR - Brian McCann (7, Graveman) SF - Alex Rodriguez (3) RBI - Brett Gardner (20), Alex Rodriguez (27), Brian McCann 2 (31) 2-OUT RBI - Brett Gardner (11) Team LOB - 7

Oakland Athletics HITTERS AB R H RBI BB SO LOB AVG OBP SLG Billy Burns, CF 4 2 2 1 0 0 2 .302 .356 .417 Marcus Semien, SS 4 0 1 0 0 1 3 .285 .330 .456 Ben Zobrist, 2B 3 1 1 1 1 1 3 .262 .324 .426 Billy Butler, DH 3 0 0 1 0 0 1 .259 .310 .363 Stephen Vogt, 1B 4 0 1 0 0 1 3 .317 .411 .597 Brett Lawrie, 3B 4 1 1 2 0 1 1 .266 .296 .362 Josh Reddick, RF 4 0 0 0 0 1 1 .300 .374 .513 Josh Phegley, C 4 0 2 0 0 0 0 .250 .310 .327 Mark Canha, LF 2 1 1 0 1 0 0 .236 .313 .409    Sam Fuld, LF 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .195 .273 .297 Kendall Graveman, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000    Fernando Abad, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000    Evan Scribner, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000    Tyler Clippard, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 Totals 32 5 9 5 2 5         BATTING 2B - Ben Zobrist (7, Sabathia) HR - Billy Burns (2, Sabathia), Brett Lawrie (3, Sabathia) SF - Billy Butler (2) RBI - Billy Burns (3), Ben Zobrist (9), Billy Butler (24), Brett Lawrie 2 (18) 2-OUT RBI - Billy Burns (2), Brett Lawrie 2 (12) Team LOB - 6 FIELDING E - Marcus Semien (18, Throwing)

New York (A.L.) Yankees PITCHERS IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA CC Sabathia (L,2-7) 6 8 5 5 1 4 2 5.67 David Carpenter 0.2 1 0 0 1 0 0 5.00 Chasen Shreve 1.1 0 0 0 0 1 0 2.79 Pitches-Strikes - CC Sabathia 94-65, David Carpenter 15-9, Chasen Shreve 19-13 Ground Balls-Fly Balls - CC Sabathia 6-8, David Carpenter 1-1 Batters Faced - CC Sabathia 27, David Carpenter 4, Chasen Shreve 4

Oakland Athletics PITCHERS IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA Kendall Graveman 5.2 7 3 3 2 4 1 5.79 Fernando Abad 0.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 6.57 Evan Scribner (W,1-0) 1.2 0 0 0 0 2 0 2.20 Tyler Clippard (S,5) 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 2.57 Pitches-Strikes - Kendall Graveman 99-58, Fernando Abad 6-5, Evan Scribner 19-14, Tyler Clippard 21-11 Ground Balls-Fly Balls - Kendall Graveman 8-5, Evan Scribner 2-1 Batters Faced - Kendall Graveman 26, Fernando Abad 2, Evan Scribner 5, Tyler Clippard 5

Game Information

Attendance - 21795

Game Time - 2:50

Temperature - 54

Umpires - Home - Ed Hickox, First Base - Mike Estabrook, Second Base - Dana DeMuth, Third Base - Paul Nauert