Leftovers from last night and what's cooking tonight

NEW YORK - Orioles manager Buck Showalter has two lineups sitting on his desk for tonight's series finale against the Yankees. One lineup includes center fielder Adam Jones and the other does not.

Jones was held out of last night's 2-1 win while he continued to receive treatment on his sore right shoulder. Showalter could decide to give Jones extended rest by not playing him tonight, followed by the off-day on Thursday.

"I'd like for him to play," Showalter said after last night's game. "I talked to him a little bit today. But we will see what tomorrow brings."

A victory for the Orioles tonight would bring their first series win since they swept the Athletics at home on Aug. 14-17.

T.J. McFarland played a crucial role in last night's victory by retiring seven of the eight Yankees that he faced. He issued one walk.

"It feels great," he said. "Every time I come in, I'm trying to put up zeroes. With the offense that we have, it's only a matter of time before they score, so I was just fortunate enough to get some ground balls, let the defense help me out.

"It was a big win. Always like beating the Yankees, especially after the skid we had. We're a good team and today we came together and played really well.

"This is exactly the type of ball that we're capable of. We're going to try and keep rolling from here, keep playing like that.

"There's quite a bit of frustration there, but everybody comes in here ready to play, ready to do their job and contribute. Today, I felt great about contributing and so did everybody else. It was a great team win."

McFarland hasn't allowed an earned run against the Yankees in his last 11 appearances over 15 innings dating back to June 20, 2014.

Kevin Gausman lasted only five innings and one batter, but he struck out Greg Bird twice and was all smiles afterward while talking about it. They were high school teammates at Grandview High School in Aurora, Colo. There's been some trash talking.

"It was pretty cool," Gausman said. "Unfortunately, I didn't get the chance to really let it soak in as guys were on base, but just really cool.

"Any time you have a friend who you met when you guys were just playing for fun, high school and stuff, to make it to the big leagues, to see him have success and just talking to other guys, how much they like him and stuff, it's pretty cool."

Gausman resisted the urge to brush back Bird, who hit a tie-breaking three-run homer off Brian Matusz on Monday.

"I thought about it," Gausman said, laughing.

"We actually went to dinner last night and I was joking, 'I'm going to strike you out every one of your at-bats.' But he also said he was going to hit a home run off me, so it goes both ways. It's pretty cool. To be from Colorado, it's pretty rare."

Who paid for dinner?

"We both did," Gausman said. "We did a three-way split. I'm not going to buy him dinner before I pitch against him."

Orioles starters haven't worked more than 5 2/3 innings in the last 10 games, though Gausman held the Yankees to one run last night on Alex Rodriguez's home run leading off the sixth.

Ubaldo Jimenez remains the only 10-game winner on the Orioles staff. He was victorious in his last start despite working only 5 2/3 innings in Toronto. He allowed two runs (one earned) and four hits, with six walks and four strikeouts.

The 10 runs of support were greatly appreciated.

Jimenez has faced the Yankees twice this season, allowing three runs and six hits in five innings on June 12 and seven runs and eight hits in 2 1/3 innings on July 23 in the Bronx. He's 3-5 with a 6.60 ERA and 1.889 WHIP in nine career starts against the Yankees and 2-3 with a 5.87 ERA and 1.891 WHIP in six starts in the Bronx.

Carlos Beltran is 7-for-20 with two doubles and two home runs against Jimenez, Jacoby Ellsbury is 7-for-12 with a home run, Dustin Ackley is 6-for-11 with a home run, Rodriguez is 3-for-7 with two doubles, Stephen Drew is 11-for-44 with five doubles and two home runs, Chase Headley is 8-for-26 with three doubles and a home run, Brendan Ryan is 2-for-13 and Brett Gardner 3-for-17.

The Yankees finally made it official yesterday by confirming that CC Sabathia would start the series finale. He's 4-9 with a 5.27 ERA in 24 starts this season and 0-1 with a 6.00 ERA in two starts against the Orioles, with eight runs and 15 hits in 12 innings. He's walked one and struck out 10.

Right-handers are batting .327 against Sabathia and left-handers are hitting .179. Keep this in mind when crafting your lineups.

Sabathia is 2-3 with a 6.07 ERA in 11 home starts and 2-6 with a 4.72 ERA in 13 starts on the road.

In his career, Sabathia is 18-7 with a 3.48 ERA in 32 regular season starts against the Orioles. However, he went 0-2 with a 6.38 ERA in three starts in 2012 and 2-2 with a 4.46 ERA in five starts in 2013.

Sabathia had enough left in the tank in 2012 to go 2-0 with a 1.53 ERA in two starts against the Orioles in the American League Division Series.

Nolan Reimold is 11-for-30 with two doubles, a triple and two home runs lifetime versus Sabathia, Matt Wieters is 7-for-43 with two doubles and a home run, Jones is 19-for-69 with four doubles, a triple, four home runs and 14 RBIs, and Chris Davis is 7-for-32 with a home run and 17 strikeouts.

Davis is the only Oriole with two 40-home run seasons. His 41 homers this season are the sixth-most in club history. He's reached base safely in his last 13 games.

Davis never had faced left-hander Chasen Shrieve before last night's tiebreaking home run in the ninth inning.

With Sabathia on the mound tonight, Showalter could sit Gerardo Parra and start Reimold in left field and Dariel Alvarez in right. It requires Jones returning to the lineup, of course.

May as well load up the lineup with right-handed bats and include Steve Pearce in it, too.

Every game matters this month, no matter where the Orioles sit in the standings. You play to win. However, this also seems like an ideal time to run Reimold and Alvarez out there as much as possible.

Alvarez could be the starting right fielder next season, or at least a fourth outfielder. The Orioles must decide whether they want to keep Reimold beyond this season.

Of course, they also need to make a decision on Parra, a pending free agent, and may want to get him as many at-bats as possible down the stretch. There's been a sharp decline in production since the trade with Milwaukee.

Manny Machado has reached base safely in his last 20 games against the Yankees dating back to June 22, 2014. He's batting .361 (26-for-72) with six doubles, four home runs, 11 RBIs, nine walks and 15 runs scored in that span.

Note: The Orioles will host the LUNGevity Foundation's Breathe Deep Baltimore, a 5K walk to raise funds and awareness for lung cancer in memory of Orioles late public relations director Monica Pence Barlow, on Saturday, Oct. 3 at Camden Yards.

The 5K walk will begin at 9 a.m. and conclude on the field. Registration begins at 7 a.m. and participants will receive a T-shirt and refreshments. Registration fees are $25 for adults, $15 for students and seniors and $10 for youth. There's no race fee for lung cancer survivors and children four and under.

Registration is available online now at www.orioles.com/lungevity. Donations made online through Oct. 17 will be eligible for various prizes reflective of the total funds raised through the Breathe Deep Recognition Program.

All proceeds of the walk will benefit the LUNGevity Foundation, a non-profit firmly committed to making an immediate impact on increasing quality-of-life and survivorship of people with lung cancer by accelerating research into early detection and more effective treatments, as well as providing community, support and education for all those affected by the disease.

I've participated in the walk every year and will continue to do so in Monica's memory and to offer my support to her family and husband Ben Barlow. She was a fighter and we're all continuing the fight.

You can click on my name and make a donation or register and join me in the walk. Heck, you can do both. Reporters who cover the Yankees are talking about coming out. We're all in this fight together.