CC Sabathia ties career high with win No. 19 as ace throws one-hit ball over eight innings as Yankees sweep Oakland A's at the Stadium, 5-0.

CC Sabathia ties career high with win No. 19 as ace throws one-hit ball over eight innings as Yankees sweep Oakland A's at the Stadium, 5-0.

Almost everything went right for the Yankees on Thursday at the Stadium. Almost.

CC Sabathia pitched eight innings of one-hit ball to inch closer to his first career 20-win season and earn victory No. 19, Curtis Granderson hit two homers and the red-hot Yanks won their sixth straight game, beating Dallas Braden and the Oakland A's, 5-0.

Still, nobody could help noticing Nick Swisher's early disappearance. Swisher stepped in following a Derek Jeter leadoff single in the bottom of the first and grounded out to short. Jeter advanced to second and Swisher was out at first.

But that was it for Swisher. He left the game in the top of the second, replaced by Curtis Granderson in center field. Swisher felt "stiffness in his left knee," the Yanks said, and he is listed as day-to-day.