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Yankees turn to Wang to avoid sweep

Jun 28, 2007 - 2:43 PM NY Yankees (36-39) at Baltimore (34-43) 7:05 pm EDT

BALTIMORE (Ticker) -- Hoping to avoid another series sweep, the New York Yankees turn to Chien-Ming Wang against the Baltimore Orioles in the finale of a three-game set on Thursday.

Having dropped four straight games and already assured of dropping their third consecutive series, the Yankees will see if Wang (7-4, 3.51 ERA) can stop the bleeding.

The 27-year-old righthander is in search of his fifth win in his last six starts. Since his first two starts in April, Wang has held the opposition to three runs or less in all but two of his 10 starts.

However, Wang did have some problems his last time out, surrendering four runs and six hits in 6 1/3 innings of a 6-5 loss at the San Francisco Giants.

The sinkerballer is 2-1 with a 4.28 ERA in five career starts against the Orioles.

The Yankees dropped a 4-0 loss on Wednesday, as the Orioles' Erik Bedard yielded two hits and struck out eight in seven innings.

New York is now one more loss away from its second sweep in its last three series, dropping three consecutive games at the Colorado Rockies last week.

Baltimore counters with Daniel Cabrera (6-8, 4.98), who is hoping to help his club complete its first three-game sweep of New York since April 15-17, 2005. He pitched 8 1/3 innings of hitless ball in his last start against the Yankees before surrendering a single to Robinson Cano last September.

Cabrera is 2-3 with a 3.94 ERA in eight career starts against the Yankees.

The righthanded Cabrera handcuffed the Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday in a 7-1 victory, allowing just one run and two hits with six strikeouts in six innings.