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.   

Wednesday, June 22, 2022

New York Yankees defeat the Tampa Bay Rays

 

The New York Yankees defeated the Tampa Bay Rays on Monday.  The game took place at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida and the final score was 4-2.  Gerrit Cole started for the Yankees and he was great.  Anthony Rizzo, Josh Donaldson and Aaron Hicks each had two hits to lead the offense. 

Cole pitched 7 1/3 innings giving up a hit and a run with three walks and 12 strikeouts.  Clay Holmes pitched 2/3 of an inning giving up two hits and a run with a walk and a strikeout and Wandy Peralta picked up his second win of the season pitching an inning with a walk and a strikeout. 

Shane McClanahan started for the Rays and he pitched six innings giving up four hits and a run with a walk and eight strikeouts.  Ryan Thompson pitched an inning giving up a hit and a unearned run with two strikeouts, Calvin Faucher pitched an inning with a walk and a strikeout and Jason Adam pitched an inning giving up two hits and atwo runs and he took his second loss of the season. 

Aaron Judge drew a walk, Rizzo had two hits and an RBI and Gleyber Torres had a hit.  Donaldson had two hits, Hicks had two hits and an RBI and Jose Trevino had an RBI and drew a walk.  Torres hit a double and Hicks hit a triple.  Rizzo hit a homerun and the Yankees were 0-6 with runners in scoring position and left five men on base.  Torres and Judge each had a stolen base and LeMahieu committed an error. 

Yandy Diaz had an RBI, Manuel Margot had a hit and an RBI and Ji-Man Choi drew two walks.  Vidal Brujan drew a walk, Brett Phillips drew a walk and Isaac Paredes had a hit.  Josh Lowe drew a walk, Francisco Mejia had a hit and Mejia hit a double.  The Rays were 1-6 with runners in scoring position and left seven men on base.  Choi committed an error. 

In the first Rizzo hit a solo homerun to give the Yankees a 1-0 lead.  In the seventh Trevino reached on an error and a run scored pushing the Yankees lead to 2-0.  In the bottom of the eighth Diaz hit an RBI groundout and Margot hit an RBI single tying the game at two.  In the top of the ninth Hicks hit an RBI triple and Trevino hit a sac fly making it 4-2 Yankees and that would be the final score. 

The two teams will play game two of three on Tuesday night. 

 

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