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In the final weeks of a 14-year big league career, Teixeira broke open the game with a fourth-inning grand slam, and the surprising New York Yankees beat the Tampa Bay Rays 7-5 on a soggy Friday night to extend their winning streak to six.
The New York Yankees and Tampa Bay Rays combined for an unusual feat in Thursday’s game at Yankee Stadium, playing the first Major League Baseball contest all season that included multi-homer efforts from three different players, per Elias Sports Bureau (via ESPN Stats & Info).
“Baseball’s a amusing game”.
The Yankees are quite likely the hottest-and most fun-team in baseball. It has been a roller-coaster season for Archer who now sits at 8-18 on the year with a disappointing 4.05 ERA and 1.23 WHIP.
Archer fanned six and tops the AL with 217 strikeouts.
The Indians led 2-1 when Lonnie Chisenhall attempted to check his swing on a pitch in the dirt.
Nova improved to 5-0 with a 2.53 ERA in seven starts with the Pirates. He gave up two homers and threw 89 pitches.
Evan Scribner and Nick Vincent combined for three scoreless innings and rookie Edwin Diaz pitched a flawless ninth for his 13th save in 14 chances.
“I don’t think any of us imagined anything”, Teixeira said when asked what the feeling was when the Yankees unloaded two closers and their best hitter at the trade deadline.
That’s how Archer wants it.
Girardi on Tanaka pitching into the eighth: “I didn’t expect he would get that far”.
Austin hit a solo homer in the ninth to give NY its season-high fifth straight victory, 5-4 over the Tampa Bay Rays on Thursday night.
The Yankees closed within three games of AL East-leading Boston, their closest to the lead since mid-April, and remained one game behind Baltimore for the second wild-card spot.
Tanaka (13-4) struck out 10 and took a shutout into the eighth inning. Brett Gardner greeted the lefty with a single to left, and Jacoby Ellsbury followed by bouncing a ground rule double off the foul pole in left.
The Yankees went ahead 2-1 in the first when Alex Cobb’s pickoff attempt to first hit Didi Gregorius as he dived back safely. When Girardi came to the mound with runners at the corners following a walk and an infield hit, Pineda avoided eye contact as he handed the ball to his manager, then walked slowly to the dugout as Chasen Shreve relieved. “We have to keep it going”. In addition to hitting his 12th home run of the season, Sanchez also showed off his arm with a great throw to second base to pick off a runner. The Yankees have won Tanaka’s past seven starts, and he’s gotten through the seventh inning without allowing a run in three of his past five, quieting doubts about whether he’s a legitimate staff ace. He left in the eighth after Bobby Wilson homered with one out and Logan Forsythe was hit by a pitch. The Rays hit six home runs in the first two games of the series, all solo shots. Adam Warren hit Nick Franklin to bring the go-ahead run to the plate with one out, but Evan Longoria grounded into a 6-4-3 double play. “He had the foot pad, shin pad all over him, but the ball found a part on the leather”, Cash said.
Miller left after being hit by a pitch in the right elbow in the first.
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Given a 7-2 lead, Yankees starter Michael Pineda lasted just 4 2/3 innings _ one out short of the minimum needed by a starter for a win. The last Rays’ pitcher with an eight game losing streak was Dan Wheeler (8) in 2007-2008.
