The Yankees lost back to back games for the first time since they lost the first three in Chicago from July 30 to August 1, thanks to a second straight sub-par performance by the Yankee offense. This time they were shutout 3–0 by an A's staff that was headed by Brett Tomko, who the Yankees designated for assignment on July 21.

Tomko allowed just 5 hits in his 5 scoreless innings despite a few hard-hit balls early on. The A's also got 4 shutout innings from Craig Breslow, Brad Ziegler and Andrew Bailey. The only Yankee who really came through offensively was Derek Jeter, who had 3 hits and as Ken Singleton mentioned during game, is 11–20 so far on this road trip.

If you take away the bottom of the 4th inning, A.J. Burnett was actually the best pitcher in this game. Burnett allowed 3 runs in the inning, including a balk that allowed Kurt Suzuki to come across the plate, but aside from that he was really untouched and he went the entire way despite being the losing pitcher.

CC Sabathia will get the ball tomorrow night and will face Vin Mazzaro and the A's. Game is scheduled to start at 10:05 ET.

Recap records: Seamus: 34–22, Patrick: 31–14, Andrew: 9–9