Today at 1:05 p.m. ET, the New York Yankees and Pittsburgh Pirates continue their spring training slates with exhibition action.
New York enters the 2015 season on the heels of a campaign where it went 84-78 and finished in second place in the American East while missing the playoffs for the second straight year.
Pittsburgh, meanwhile, finished 88-74 and in second place in the NL Central for the second consecutive season while also notching its second straight trip to the postseason.
The Pirates lost the NL Wild-Card Game to the eventual World Series champion San Francisco Giants by an 8-0 margin.
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The Yankees send Esmil Rogers to the mound and he is coming off of a 2014 campaign where he went 2-0 with a 5.72 ERA in 34 games (one start) between New York and the Toronto Blue Jays while adding 44 strikeouts.
The Pirates counter with Francisco Liriano, who is coming off of a campaign where he went 7-10 with a 3.38 ERA in 29 games while adding 175 strikeouts.
Here are the lineups for this afternoon's game:
New York Yankees:
Jacoby Ellsbury CF
Brett Gardner LF
Chris Young RF
Garrett Jones 1B
John Ryan Murphy Catcher
Jose Pirela 3B
Kyle Roller DH
Rob Refsnyder 2B
Cito Culver SS
Esmil Rogers P
Pittsburgh Pirates:
Jose Tabata LF
Gregory Polanco RF
Andrew McCutchen DH
Starling Marte CF
Andrew Lambo 1B
Jung-Ho Kang SS
Chris Stewart C
Sean Rodriguez 2B
Justin Sellers 3B
Francisco Liriano P
The 2015 MLB season draws closer when the Yankees and Pirates take the field in spring training action this afternoon.
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