Sunday, April 11, 2021

New York Yankees get hammered by the Tampa Bay Rays

The New York Yankees were defeated by the Tampa Bay Rays on Friday afternoon.  The game took place

at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida and the finals score was 10-5.  Corey Kluber started for the

Yankees and he didn't pitch great, he also wasn't  helped out by his defense.  DJ LeMahieu had two hits

to lead the offense.  

Kluber pitched 2 1/3 innings giving up five hits and five runs with three of them being earned.  He walked

two and struck out three and he took his first loss of the season.  Nick Nelson pitched 1 2/3 innings giving 

up four hits and four runs with a walk and three strikeouts, Lucas Luetge pitched three innings giving up

three hits and a run with four strikeouts and Luis Cessa pitched an inning giving up a hit and he struck 

out one.  

Rich Hill won his first game of the season pitching six innings and giving up four hits and four runs.  

He walked none and struck out seven.  Hunter Strickland pitched two innings giving up a hit and a run

with a walk and three strikeouts and Chris Mazza pitched an inning giving up two hits.  

LeMahieu had two hits and an RBI, Giancarlo Stanton had a hit and two RBI and Aaron Hicks had a hit

and two RBI.  Gleyber Torres had a hit, Gary Sanchez had a hit and drew a walk and Tyler Wade had a

hit.  LeMahieu hit a double and Hicks and LeMahieu each hit a homerun.  The Yankees were 1-1 with

runners in scoring position and left two men on base.  LeMahieu committed an error and Hicks had an

outfield assist.  

Yoshi Tsutsugo had two hits and drew a walk, Austin Meadows had three hits and drew a walk and 

Randy Arozarena had a hit and an RBI.  Brandon Lowe had a hit and three RBI, Yandy Diaz had two

hits, an RBI and drew a walk and Joey Wendle had two hits and two RBI.  Willy Adames had two hits

and two RBI, Brett Phillips had an RBI and Adames, Wendle, Lowe, Tsutsugo, Diaz and Meadows

each hit a double and Adames hit a homerun.  The Rays were 6-16 with runners in scoring position and 

left six men on base.  Arozarena had a stolen base.  

In the second Adames hit an RBI double and Phillips hit a sac fly to give the Rays a 2-0 lead.  

Stanton hit a two-run single to tie the game at two and Hicks hit a two-run homerun giving the Yankees

a 4-2 lead.  In the bottom of the third Arozarena hit an RBI single, Wendle hit a two-run double and it

was 5-4 Rays.  In the bottom of the fourth Lowe hit a three-run double to make it 8-4.  Diaz hit an RBI

single and it was 9-4 Rays.  In the bottom of the seventh Diaz hit a solo homerun to push the lead to 

10-4.  LeMahieu hit a solo homerun in the eighth to cut the lead to 10-5 but that would be the final 

score.  The two teams will play game two of three on Saturday afternoon.  




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