CC Sabathia remained perfect at Yankee Stadium on the season and Robinson Cano clubbed a grand slam and drove in a career-high six runs to carry the New York Yankees to a 10-0 rout of the visiting Seattle Mariners on Sunday in the rubber game of their three-game series.
Sabathia (17-5) allowed just three hits in six scoreless innings before rain ended his day. He improved to 10-0 at home this season and won his 15th consecutive decision at Yankee Stadium dating to last year.
Cano's fourth-inning blast, which followed an intentional walk to Mark Teixeira, pretty much secured the fourth straight win for Sabathia, who became the American League's first 17-game winner.
Austin Kearns and Jorge Posada belted solo homers and Cano, following a 57-minute rain delay, added a two-run single in a three-run sixth to pad the cushion to 8-0.
Kerry Wood came on in the seventh for Sabathia, who struck out eight and didn’t walk a batter in beating Seattle for the third time this season.
Mariners starter Luke French (2-4) lasted five innings, allowing five runs on five hits with five walks and one strikeout.
Seattle | NY Yankees | |
Luke French | Player | CC Sabathia |
Loss | W/L | Win |
5.0 | IP | 6.0 |
1 | Strikeouts | 8 |
5 | Hits | 3 |
9.00 | ERA | 0.00 |
Seattle | NY Yankees | |
Chris Woodward | Player | Robinson Cano |
1 | Hits | 2 |
0 | RBI | 6 |
0 | HR | 1 |
2 | TB | 5 |
1.000 | Avg | .400 |
Team | Hits | HR | TB | Avg | LOB | K | RBI | BB | SB | Errors |
Seattle | 6 | 0 | 8 | .188 | 13 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
NY Yankees | 10 | 3 | 20 | .303 | 14 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 1 |