The Yankees took another game away from the Baltimore Orioles winning 4-2.  CC Sabathia (6-3) gained his sixth win of the season and fourth in a row against the O’s.  Like Phil Hughes the night before, Sabathia did not have his best stuff.  In seven innings he gave up nine hits, two runs, and struck out eight.  Also like Hughes, Sabathia struggled in the beginning and came back to his form toward the end.

“CC battled through the first three innings and didn’t seem to find it until the fourth, but then he pitched a lot better,”  says manager Joe Girardi.  “It’s important to fight through it when you don’t have your best stuff.  He found a way to get it done.”

The star of this game was once again Robinson Cano both in offense and defense.  Cano went 3-for-4 with an RBI single scoring Mark Teixeira to tie the game at 2.  He also made a huge defensive play by making a diving stop to keep Nick Markakis to a single instead of an RBI single.

“I didn’t want the ball to go to right field because I know he would have scored,” says Cano.  “I was just trying to stop it so he can stay at third.”

Another Yankee that made a huge defensive play was the rookie Kevin Russo.  With Joba Chamberlain on the mound, Kevin Russo made a long diving catch to keep Adam Jones off the bases.  “That was a big cach, that changed the game,” says Girardi.  With this play Russo continues to show the Yankees that he’s worth keeping around.

The O’s starter Christ Tillman (0-2) gave the Yankees a challege throughout the game.  He pitched six innings and gave up 8 hits and three runs.  He only struck out one, but Tillman was able to prevent the Yankees from scoring a lot of early runs.