The New York Yankees open a three-game series with the Minnesota Twins on Tuesday at Target Field. And the Yankees will face a pair of familiar faces this week.
Michael Pineda is scheduled to start the series opener for Minnesota. He’s 3-3 with a 3.40 ERA in nine starts this season. The right-hander spent four seasons with the Yankees (2014-17) and won a career-best 12 games in 2015. Pineda debuted with the Seattle Mariners in 2011 and was an All-Star that year, finishing fifth in voting for American League Rookie of the Year.
J.A. Happ will start for Minnesota in the series finale on Thursday. He’s 3-2 with 5.61 ERA in 10 starts this season. The left-hander signed a one-year, $8-million contract with the Twins as a free agent in January after being with the Yankees from July 2018 through last season. He left the Yankees on bad terms, as he felt his innings and starts were cut short last season to prevent him from vesting a $17-million option for 2021.
Happ was 2-2 with a 3.47 ERA in nine starts during the coronavirus-shortened 2020 season and 21-10 with a 4.13 ERA in 51 appearances (50 starts) during his time with the Yankees.
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Here are the probable starters for this week’s series:
Tuesday, 8:10 p.m. ET, YES Network
NYY: LHP Jordan Montgomery (3-1, 3.92)
MIN: RHP Michael Pineda (3-3, 3.40)
Wednesday, 8:10 p.m. ET, YES Network
NYY: RHP Gerrit Cole (6-3, 2.26)
MIN: RHP Randy Dobnak (1-5, 6.19)
Thursday, 8:10 p.m. ET, YES Network
NYY: RHP Michael King (0-3, 3.62)
MIN: LHP J.A. Happ (3-2, 5.61)
The Yankees will take the field Tuesday in fourth place in the American League East, 6.5 games behind the first-place Tampa Bay Rays, thanks to a four-game losing streak, punctuated with a weekend sweep by the Boston Red Sox.
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(NJ Advance Media’s Randy Miller contributed to this report.)
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