Today is April 25 and the last time the White Sox met the Yankees on this date was in 1997 at Yankee Stadium.

That night, the White Sox then managed by Terry Bevington were 9-3 winners behind 7 2/3 innings from Wilson Alvarez and home runs from Frank Thomas and Albert Belle off David Wells.

Back to the present, the White Sox scored nine Thursday at Tampa Bay and that represents their lone win since April 12. During that time, the White Sox have scored 16 times and allowed 54 runs in 10 losses.

 So what to do? Do the White Sox panic and the answer is no. 

Of course that’s not important right now when considering the state of Phil Hughes’ dead arm. Hughes continues to be in a state of flux, especially after he experienced the same thing throwing 10 to 12 pitches during a bullpen session yesterday.

"Same as before," Hughes said. "It's like nothing's coming out...just a lot of deadness, nothing really there after the first 10 (pitches) or so, so I'm just going to take a couple days, rest it and re-evaluate it from there."

There is not an official medical term for dead arm, but usually it occurs in August or some other point late in the season. It is rare to see it occur in April but that appears to be what is happening here with Hughes, who compared it to being hit in the thigh.

"It's like if someone hits you in the thigh really hard, and after that it's just numb. It's the kind of feeling you usually get after throwing 110-115 pitches, and it's normal to feel that way. But this is way too soon. It's discouraging."

Discouraging is what the Yankees might feel if his meeting with team doctor Chris Ahmad recommends further tests. That should be known within the next 24 hours.

What is not discouraging is Pedro Feliciano. Everyone thought he was done for the year since many people don’t return from Dr. Andrews with good news. Instead, Andrews saw that the injury was older and recommended a six-week rehab plan.

"We’re just going to follow the word Dr. Andrews says from experience,” Feliciano said. “Before he got pitchers that got the same injury – capsule injuries – and he just put them in rehab and it works. Why not do that and avoid the surgery and try to pitch again (this year)".

Also not discouraging is the current performances of Curtis Granderson and Robinson Cano.  Granderson has a modest eight-game hitting streak going and his 20 home runs since August 14 are the third-most in baseball behind Jose Bautista and Troy Tulowitzki.

Cano is batting .345 during a 13-game hitting streak with six doubles, three home runs and 12 RBI.

So that makes it kind of good news and bad news kind of day for the Yankees. Elsewhere, it appears the Yankees would prefer not using Mariano Rivera tonight.

Rivera threw 33 pitches in blowing his second save Sunday in Baltimore. The last time, Rivera pitched the next day after throwing 30-plus pitches was May 27-28, 2008.

All that information is likely in Joe Girardi’s binder, which is why he’d like not to use him. It doesn’t mean he won’t but it seems likely.

Also seeming likely is the always entertaining Ozzie Guillen living up to that. We’ll have more on that at a later date, so stay tuned.