The Yankees need to salvage a win from this series to keep Toronto at bay. They will hand the ball to Masahiro Tanaka (8-4, 3.84 ERA) to face Marco Estrada (9-6, 3.40 ERA) in hopes of doing just that. Tanaka is coming off a three run, five hit, six inning outing against Boston where he picked up the W. He has had a home run problem as of late. He’s already given up more this season than he did all of last year.
Estrada is coming off back to back wins against the Royals and Twins.