New York Yankees rally to defeat the Tampa Bay Rays in extra innings

 

The New York Yankees defeated the Tampa Bay Rays on Sunday afternoon.  The game took place at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida and the final score was 8-4 in ten innings.  Jordan Montgomery started for the Yankees and he wasn’t great but he grinded it out into the sixth inning and gave them a chance.  The bullpen pitched great and the offense was led by Gio Urshela who had four hits. 

Montgomery pitched five+ innings giving up five hits and four runs with two walks and four strikeouts.  Chad Green pitched 2 1/3 innings giving up no hits or runs and striking out three, Darren O’Day pitched 2/3 of an inning and struck out a batter and Aroldis Chapman pitched an inning giving up a hit and striking out the side.  Chapman picked up his first win of the season.  Albert Abreu pitched a perfect inning with a couple of strikeouts. 

Brent Honeywell Jr. pitched two perfect innings with a couple of strikeouts.  Michael Wacha pitched four innings giving up three hits and three runs with three walks and five strikeouts.  Cody Reed pitched 1/3 of an inning giving up a hit and a walk, Ryan Thompson pitched an inning giving up a hit and a run with two walks and Diego Castillo pitched 1 2/3 innings giving up a hit and a walk.  Colin McHugh lost his first game of the season pitching an inning and giving up three hits and four runs with three being earned.  He struck out one. 

DJ LeMahieu had a hit, Aaron Judge drew two walks and Giancarlo Stanton drew a walk.  Gleyber Torres had a hit, an RBI and drew a walk, Roughned Odor had a hit and an RBI and Gary Sanchez had a hit, an RBI and drew a walk.  Urshela had four hits and three RBI and Brett Gardner had a hit and drew two walks.  LeMahieu and Urshela each hit a double and Urshela hit a homerun.  The Yankees were 4-15 with runners in scoring position and left eight men on base.  Torres had a stolen base.

Yandy Diaz had a hit and drew a walk, Randy Arozarena had a hit and two RBI and Manuel Margot had a hit.  Mike Brosseau had a hit and drew a walk, Mike Zunino had two hits and two RBI and Margot and Zunino each hit a double.  Zunino and Arozarena each hit a homerun and the Rays were 0-7 with runners in scoring position and left six men on base.  Padlo and Margot each committed an error. 

In the second Zunino hit a two-run homerun to give the Rays a 2-0 lead.  In the third Urshela hit a two-run homerun tying the game at two.  Hicks grounded into a double play and the Yankees had a 3-2 lead.  In the bottom of the third Arozarena hit a two-run homerun giving the Rays back the lead at 4-3.  In the eighth Torres hit an RBI single to tie the game at four.  In the tenth Odor hit an RBI single, Sanchez hit an RBI single and Urshela hit an RBI single and a two base error scored a couple more runs and gave the Yankees an 8-4 lead and that would be the final score. 

The Yankees avoided the sweep and will head to Dunedin Florida to take on the Jays for three beginning on Monday night.