Yankees Probable Pitchers

Tanaka bounced back from a loss to hurl seven innings of one-run ball at the Royals in his most recent start and has touched the sixth inning in four of his five efforts.

Cahill gave up only eight homers in 110 innings last year but has matched that total in 26 1/3 frames this year. He served up three to the Mariners and surrendered five runs in 4 1/3 innings on Saturday.

Paxton has been magnificent in successive starts, recording 12 strikeouts without allowing a run against both the Red Sox and Royals. David Cone (1998) is the only other Yankee to have back-to-back games of 12 or more strikeouts.

Bumgarner will make his sixth start of the season to open the three-game series against the Yankees, marking only his second career appearance against the AL East squad. The 29-year-old southpaw has gone at least six innings in every start this year but has received just 10 total runs of support.

Happ showed some encouraging signs in his last outing, limiting the Angels to a two-run homer and two other hits over seven innings in Anaheim. Happ has steered away from his four-seam fastball, which has been hit hard in the early going.

Holland takes on the Yankees looking for his second win of the season in his sixth start. The 32-year-old is 1-7 with a 6.38 ERA in 11 career games -- with 10 starts -- against the Yankees. He is coming off a five-inning, complete-game loss, due to inclement weather in Pittsburgh.

German has emerged as a dependable contributor in the Yankees' rotation, now having turned in four solid starts to begin the year. He limited the Angels to an unearned run on four hits in his most recent effort, striking out five with one walk.

Rodriguez leads the Giants pitching staff with three wins and will look to take that success into his sixth start of the season as San Francisco wraps up its three-game series with New York. The 26-year-old right-hander has never faced the Yankees in his career.