Tampa Bay 11, NY Yankees 5
When: 7:10 PM ET, Friday, April 18, 2014
Where: Tropicana Field, St. Petersburg, Florida
Temperature:
Indoors
Umpires:
Home -
Joe West, 1B -
Marty Foster, 2B -
Clint Fagan, 3B -
Rob Drake
Attendance:
26079
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Rays 11, Yankees 5: James Loney capped a four-RBI performance with a go-ahead two-run single in the seventh inning as host Tampa Bay snapped a four-game skid.
Wil Myers had three hits and three RBIs, Evan Longoria went 3-for-3 with a walk and two runs scored and Sean Rodriguez slugged a two-run homer for the Rays, who overcame an early 4-0 deficit to end New York's winning streak at five. Jake McGee (1-0) got the win despite allowing a run in 1 1/3 innings after starter Erik Bedard gave up four runs in 3 2/3 frames.
Scott Sizemore ripped a three-run double and Jacoby Ellsbury recorded two hits and a run for the Yankees. Hiroki Kuroda allowed three runs in 5 2/3 innings, but the New York bullpen gave up eight runs in 2 1/3 innings, with Adam Warren (0-1) getting the loss.
Sizemore cleared the bases with a drive that got past a diving David DeJesus in center in the second and Brett Gardner knocked in Sizemore with a grounder to second later in the frame, but Loney cut the deficit in half with a two-run double in the fourth. Myers made it 4-3 with an RBI single in the sixth before Alfonso Soriano answered for New York with a run-scoring base hit in the seventh prior to the Yankees' bullpen implosion.
Desmond Jennings greeted Warren with a two-out RBI single in the bottom half to cut the Rays' deficit to 5-4 and Loney singled to right with the bases loaded to push across the tying and go-ahead runs. Rodriguez added insurance with a two-run blast in the eighth, his second in as many nights, and Tampa Bay piled on three more in the inning to pull away.
GAME NOTEBOOK: New York LH Cesar Cabral hit three batters and gave up three runs without recording an out in the eighth before being ejected by home plate umpire Joe West. ... Yankees RF Carlos Beltran sat with wrist and shoulder pain a day after tumbling over a wall in foul territory. MRIs on both joints came back clean. ... Tampa Bay has won 17 of its last 24 home games against New York.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
NY Yankees |
|
Tampa Bay |
Hiroki Kuroda
|
Player |
Erik Bedard
|
No Decision |
W/L |
No Decision |
5.2 |
IP |
3.2 |
2 |
Strikeouts |
3 |
7 |
Hits |
6 |
4.76 |
ERA |
9.82 |
Team Stats Summary
Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
NY Yankees
|
8 |
0 |
9 |
.222 |
20 |
8 |
5 |
3 |
1 |
0 |
Tampa Bay
|
16 |
1 |
21 |
.421 |
15 |
3 |
11 |
3 |
0 |
1 |