Thursday, June 23, 2022

New York Yankees fall in Tampa Bay

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

Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida and the final score of the game was 5-4.  Nestor Cortes Jr. 

started for the Yankees and he didn’t pitch very well and the bullpen was good.  DJ LeMahieu and 

Marwin Gonzalez each had two hits to lead the offense.  

Cortes pitched 4 1/3 innings giving up six hits and four runs.  He struck out three and lost his third game

Of the season.  Clarke Schmidt pitched 2/3 of an inning giving up two hits and a run, Ron Marinaccio

Pitched two perfect innings and Lucas Luetge pitched a perfect inning with two strikeouts.  


Jalen Beeks started for the Rays and he pitched 1 2/3 innings giving up two hits and two runs with two 

Walks and two strikeouts.  Shawn Armstrong pitched 1 1/3 innings giving up a hit and he struck out three.

Armstrong won his first game of the season, Matt Wisler pitched two innings giving up a hit and he 

Struck out one, Ryan Thompson pitched an inning with a strikeout and Brooks Raley pitched 1 1/3 

Innings giving up two walks and he struck out two.  Jason Adam pitched 2/3 of an inning and Colin

Poche pitched an inning giving up a hit and two runs with a walk and a strikeout.  Poche saved his fifth

Game of the season.  


LeMahieu had two hits, two RBI and drew a walk, Josh Donaldson drew a walk and Anthony Rizzo drew

A walk.  Giancarlo Stanton drew a walk, Gleyber Torres drew a walk and Kyle Higashioka had a hit.  

Gonzalez had two hits and two RBI including a double and LeMahieu hit a double.  Gonzalez hit a homer.  

The Yankees were 2-10 with runners in scoring position and left five men on base.  


Yandy Diaz had a hit, Isaac Paredes had three hits and four RBI and Harold Ramirez had two hits and an

RBI.  Randy Arozarena had a hit, Taylor Walls had a hit including a double.  Ramirez hit a double, 

Paredes hit three homeruns and Ramirez hit a homerun.  The Rays were 0-3 with runners in scoring 

Position and left four men on base.  Mejia had a passed ball.  


In the first Paredes hit a solo homerun and Ramirez hit a solo homerun making it 2-0 Rays.  In the second

LeMahieu hit a two-run single to tie the game at two.  In the bottom of the third Paredes hit a solo homer

To give the Rays a 3-2 lead and in the bottom of the fifth Paredes hit a two-run homer pushing the lead

To 5-2.  In the ninth Gonzalez hit a two-run homerun cutting the lead to 5-4 but that would be the final.  

The two teams will play the rubber game of the series on Wednesday night.   

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