Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Tampa Bay 1, NY Yankees 0
When: 7:10 PM ET, Monday, September 15, 2014
Where: Tropicana Field, St. Petersburg, Florida
Temperature: Indoors
Umpires: Home - Marty Foster, 1B - Rob Drake, 2B - Joe West, 3B - Alan Porter
Attendance: 16058

Rays 1, Yankees 0: Ben Zobrist lined the decisive single with two out in the ninth inning as Tampa Bay blanked visiting New York.

Logan Forsythe and James Loney delivered back-to-back one-out singles in the ninth off Shawn Kelley (3-6). Matt Joyce drew a two-out walk to load the bases before Zobrist sent the third pitch from Kelley into right field to plate Forsythe.

Joel Peralta (3-4) pitched a scoreless ninth for the Rays, who have won three of their past four games. The Yankees have lost four of five games and are 5 1/2 games behind the Kansas City Royals for the American League’s second wild card.

Rays starter Alex Colome allowed six hits in 6 2/3 scoreless innings. New York’s Chris Capuano gave up two hits while tossing six shutout innings.

The Yankees threatened in the seventh when Ichiro Suzuki stroked a two-out double and John Ryan Murphy walked. Steven Geltz replaced Colome and induced Brian McCann to fly to center.

GAME NOTEBOOK: Yankees SS Derek Jeter didn’t start while mired in a 0-for-24 slump. … Tampa Bay recalled Colome, LHP C.J. Riefenhauser and INF Nick Franklin from Triple-A Durham. … New York RHP Masahiro Tanaka pitched five scoreless innings against minor leaguers on Monday and could return to the majors this weekend.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
NY Yankees   Tampa Bay
Chris Capuano Player Alex Colome
No Decision W/L No Decision
6.0 IP 6.2
4 Strikeouts 4
2 Hits 6
0.00 ERA 0.00
Hitting
NY Yankees   Tampa Bay
Martin Prado Player Ben Zobrist
2 Hits 2
0 RBI 1
0 HR 0
2 TB 2
.500 Avg .400
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
NY Yankees 6 0 7 .188 16 6 0 2 0 1
Tampa Bay 5 0 5 .156 14 6 1 5 0 0