1.   Each starter allowed only three hits.

2.   It was the first time since Kevin Brown opening day that a Dodgers starter allowed two homers in a game.

3.   No Mets starter has allowed more than three runs in any game.

4.   On only five occasions this year has an opposing starter allowed one run in eight or more innings to the Yankees.

5.   The Indians cannot win if their starters allow three runs over six innings.

6.   The starters allowed three or more runs in one inning five different times.

7.   Three of the six walks allowed by starter Paul Abbott resulted in runs.

8.   Yankee starters had not allowed a home run in the previous nine games.

9.   Orioles starters have allowed just three earned runs in four games, but Erickson had been struggling.

10.   Both starters allowed five hits.