Major League Baseball
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Tampa Bay 5, NY Yankees 1
When: 1:05 PM ET, Sunday, May 4, 2014
Where: Yankee Stadium, Bronx, New York
Temperature: 64°
Umpires: Home - Marvin Hudson, 1B - Cory Blaser, 2B - Brian O'Nora, 3B - Doug Eddings
Attendance: 41122


Rays 5, Yankees 1: Wil Myers belted an inside-the-park three-run homer and had four RBIs to help Erik Bedard end a 15-start winless drought for visiting Tampa Bay in the rubber game of the three-game series.

Bedard (1-1) allowed one run on six hits in a season-high six innings to earn his first victory as a starter since June 26 against St. Louis. Evan Longoria doubled home a run, Desmond Jennings had three hits and Logan Forsythe added two hits and scored twice as the Rays finished 5-5 on their 10-game road trip with their fourth win in five contests.

Left-hander CC Sabathia (3-4) was pounded for five runs on 10 hits in only 3 2/3 innings for New York, which lost for the fourth time in five games. Yangervis Solarte drove in the only run with a sacrifice fly and Brett Gardner had a pair of hits for the Yankees.

The Rays came out swinging against Sabathia and put up a run in the first when Longoria doubled home Forsythe, who led off the game with a double. After Solarte tied it with a sacrifice fly in the second, Myers hammered a drive off the top of the fence in center field in the third and circled the bases when Jacoby Ellsbury's foot got caught in the padding for a three-run blast and a 4-1 edge.

Myers, the first player to hit in his first 13 games at Yankee Stadium, continued to torment New York with a two-out, run-scoring double in the fourth that plated Forsythe and chased Sabathia in favor of recent callup Alfredo Aceves, who pitched 5 1/3 scoreless innings and retired the last 12 batters he faced.

GAME NOTEBOOK: Myers, who boosted his season numbers against New York to 12-for-32 with four homers and 14 RBIs in seven games, had the 11th inside-the-park homer in team history and first since Sept. 25, 2011. ... Sabathia failed to get through four innings for the first time since Oct. 2, 2009 - also against the Rays - and saw his ERA balloon to 5.75. ... The Rays designated RHP Heath Bell, a former All-Star closer, for assignment Sunday and recalled RHP Nathan Karns from Triple-A Durham. ... Denver Broncos QB Peyton Manning attended the game and was a guest of Yankees captain Derek Jeter during batting practice. New York Giants QB Eli Manning also was in attendance.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Tampa Bay   NY Yankees
Erik Bedard Player CC Sabathia
Win W/L Loss
6.0 IP 3.2
3 Strikeouts 3
6 Hits 10
1.50 ERA 12.27
Hitting
Tampa Bay   NY Yankees
Desmond Jennings Player Brett Gardner
3 Hits 2
0 RBI 0
0 HR 0
4 TB 2
.750 Avg .500
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Tampa Bay 13 1 20 .333 17 8 5 1 0 0
NY Yankees 7 0 9 .212 19 4 1 2 0 0