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By Nick Ziegler (@Ziggy26x)
June 21st, 2013
Tampa Bay Rays vs New York Yankees Post
Game Recap
Final Score: Rays 2 Yankees 6
The New York Yankees were able to snap
their two-game skid on Friday night, with a win over the Tampa Bay
Rays to even their series up at a game a piece. The win moves the
Yankees to (40-33) on the season, which is 3.5 games behind the
Boston Red Sox for first place in the AL East.
The offense wasted little time getting
on the board against Roberto Hernandez, as in the first inning
Robinson Cano hit a sac-fly to score Brett Gardner for the first run
of the game. Ichiro Suzuki would knock in the Yankees next run in the
third inning on a RBI ground out, which scored Austin Romine. In the
fourth inning the Yankees would load the bases with none out, but
Jayson Nix grounded into a double-play, as Travis Hafner scored for
the third run. With two outs and Lyle Overbay on Third Base, David
Adams was able to have an infield single to score Overbay, and give
the Yankees a 4-2 lead. The sixth inning is where the now legend of
Zolilo Almonte began, as in his first major league start he hit his
first career homerun off Hernandez, and gave the Yankees a 5-2 lead.
Almonte in his first start was great, and it will be hard to imagine
him out of the lineup on Saturday, as he went three for four on
Friday. For Hernandez it is just yet another bad start in what has
been a bad season, as he now has eight losses.
Lyle Overbay would tack on another run
for the Yankees in the eighth inning with a RBI single off Cesar
Ramos, which scored Robinson Cano.
David Phelps wasn’t great but was
certainly good enough to deserve a win, and he did getting his fifth
victory of the season. Phelps went 5.2 innings allowing two runs on
eight hits, and one walk. The Rays only got to Phelps in the third
and fourth innings for one run in each, as Ben Zobrist had and RBI
infield single in the third to score Yunel Escobar, and then Luke
Scott had a RBI single that scored James Loney.
The bullpen was very solid for the
Yankees after Phelps, as they used Boone Logan, Shawn Kelley, David
Robertson, and Mariano Rivera to pitch the final 3.1 innings. Only
Robertson allowed a base runner, and with Kelley pitching in the
seventh inning Joe Girardi may have found his new seventh inning man.
Next up will be a Saturday afternoon
game, as C.C. Sabathia (7-5, 3.93) will be facing Alex Colome (1-0,
0.00).
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