Tampa Bay 2, NY Yankees 1
When: 7:05 PM ET, Tuesday, July 1, 2014
Where: Yankee Stadium, Bronx, New York
Temperature:
85°
Umpires:
Home -
Alfonso Marquez, 1B -
Paul Schrieber, 2B -
Ted Barrett, 3B -
Will Little
Attendance:
35866
By SportsDirect Inc.
Rays 2, Yankees 1: James Loney hit a tiebreaking homer in the sixth to back seven superb innings from David Price as visiting Tampa Bay ran its winning streak to four games.
Logan Forsythe matched Loney with a pair of hits and an RBI while Desmond Jennings and Evan Longoria added two hits apiece as the Rays handed New York its fourth consecutive defeat. Price (7-7) allowed one run on four hits while striking out nine, falling one short of becoming the fourth pitcher in major-league history to fan at least 10 batters in six consecutive starts.
Derek Jeter had two hits and scored the lone run for the Yankees, who fell to 2-8 in their last 10 games. Hiroki Kuroda (5-6) was a hard-luck loser, giving up two runs on nine hits and fanning seven in eight innings.
Matt Joyce and Longoria opened the fourth inning with back-to-back singles before Forsythe continued his torrid stretch by bouncing a one-out base hit up the middle for a 1-0 lead. Jeter doubled to lead off the bottom of the inning and moved to third on Jacoby Ellsbury's single before coming home on a botched rundown when Rays shortstop Ben Zobrist hit Ellsbury with his throw.
Loney, who is batting .358 lifetime against the Yankees, snapped the 1-1 deadlock by hammering Kuroda's first pitch of the sixth inning into New York's bullpen in right-center for his fifth homer. Jake McGee worked a scoreless eighth and Grant Balfour pitched around two walks in the ninth to notch his 11th save.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Jeter's fourth-inning double was the 534th of his career, tying Lou Gehrig for first place on the franchise list. He also stole his 353rd base, tying Rod Carew for 106th place on baseball's career list. ... Rays 2B Forsythe recorded his fourth straight multi-hit performance and is 18-for-39 over his last 11 contests. ... Tampa Bay placed SS Yunel Escobar (shoulder) on the 15-day disabled list, retroactive to June 25, and recalled LHP Jeff Beliveau from Triple-A Durham.
Top Game Performances
Team Stats Summary
Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
Tampa Bay
|
9 |
1 |
13 |
.250 |
19 |
9 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
NY Yankees
|
4 |
0 |
5 |
.129 |
18 |
11 |
0 |
5 |
1 |
0 |