Yanks and Sox battle in the Bronx.

The top two teams in the AL East will square-off for a three game series starting tonight at Yankee Stadium. The Yankees have lost five straight games, including being swept by the Mets in the Subway Series. The Red Sox split their series with the Phillies during the week.

Tonight's lineup:

Gardner CF
Youkilis DH
Cano 2B
Teixeira 1B
Wells LF
Nix SS
Adams 3B
Ichiro RF
Stewart C
Sabathia P

Sabathia (4-4, 3.96 ERA) hasn't been on top of his game lately and has been struggling with some command issues. Tonight, he'll be the man in charge of ending the Yankee recent skid. They'll be opposed by Boston's Jon Lester (6-1, 3.34 ERA).

Teixeira and Youkilis are back in the lineup:

Mark Teixeira and Kevin Youkilis are finally back in the Yankees lineup tonight. Youkilis has missed the last couple of weeks because of some back problems and Teixeira has been out since injuring his wrist tendon while training for Team USA in the World Baseball Classic.

“I’m happy with how things went,” said Teixeira. “It was a little slower than I would have liked. As I've told you guys a few times, I would have been back the day after I got hurt if they would have let me try.”

Nova and Nuno sent down:

Over the past week the biggest questions with the return of Youkilis and Teixeira, was who would be removed off the roster to make room for them. Well that question was finally answered today with Vidal Nuno and Ivan Nova both being optioned to AAA-Scranton prior to today's game. David Adams and Lyle Overbay were to two guys with the most speculation of being sent down, but are safe for now.

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