New York Yankees lose a close one in extra innings to the Tampa Bay Rays

The New York Yankees were defeated by the Tampa Bay Rays on Tuesday night.  The game took place at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida and the final score was 2-1.  Jordan Montgomery started for the Yankees but only pitched a couple of scoreless innings.  The bullpen arms which were many also pitched well.  The Yankees didn’t have a batter who had more then a hit. 

Montgomery pitched two innings giving up three hits and no runs with no walks and three strikeouts.  Ben Heller pitched an inning giving up a hit and striking out one, CC Sabathia pitched an inning with two strikeouts and Stephen Tarpley pitched an inning giving up two hits and a run with a strikeout.  Tyler Lyons pitched to one batter and walked him, Luis Cessa pitched an inning with two walks and otwo strikeouts and Tommy Khanle pitched an inning with a strikeout.  Zack Britton pitched an inning with a  strikeout, Adam Ottavino pitched an inning with a strikeout and Chad Green pitched two perfect innings with five strikeouts.  Cory Gearrin lost his third game of the season pitching giving up a hit and a run. 

Yonny Chirinos pitched three innings giving up a hit and a run, Andrew Kittredge pitched an inning giving up a hit and he struck out two and Brendan McKay pitched 1 2/3 innings giving up two hits and a walk with three strikeouts.  Diego Castillo pitched 1 1/3 innings, Emilio Pagan pitched an inning giving up a hit and striking out two and Colin Poche pitched an inning with a strikeout.  Oliver Drake pitched 2/3 of an inning with a strikeout.  Chaz Roe pitched 1 1/3 innings giving up a hit and he struck out three and Peter Fairbanks pitched an inning giving up a hit and he struck out one and won his second game of the season. 

DJ LeMahieu had a hit, Aaron Judge had a hit and Giancarlo Stanton had a hit and drew a walk.  Didi Gregorius had a hit, Cameron Maybin had a hit and an RBI and Austin Romine had a hit.  Mike Ford had a hit which was a double and Maybin hit a homerun.  The Yankees were 0-5 with runners in scoring position and left eight men on base.  Tarpley had a pickoff. 

Tommy Pham had a hit, Austin Meadows had two hits and drew a walk and Travis d’Arnaud had a hit.  Ji-Man Choi had a hit, an RBI and drew a walk, Matt Duffy had a hit and drew a walk and Kevin Kiermaier had a hit and an RBI.  d’Arnaud hit a double and Kiermaier and Choi each hit a homerun.  The Rays were 0-2 with runners in scoring position and left six men on base.  Meadows and Pham were each caught stealing and Pham was picked off. 

In the third Maybin hit a solo homerun to give the Yankees a 1-0 lead.  In the fifth Kiermaier hit a solo homerun tying the game at one.  In the 12^th Choi hit a walk-off homerun to give the Rays a 2-1 victory.