Rays 3, Yankees 4
Record: 26-16
Attendance: 41,281
In an eerie replay of Sunday's game at the Trop, there was a about a half-hour delay followed by a ninth-inning Yankee rally and a Ray collapse. They were both painful, but this one was worse because the Yankees rallied for a walk-off win against the Rays' most trustworthy, high leverage, late-inning reliever, Jose Alvarado--and because the loss pushed them out of first place and put the Yankees into first place--and because it was a game they had almost put into the win column. Altogether it was a first-class disaster, and the less said about it, the better. The Rays did have ten hits, two each from Meadows, Robertson, and Lowe, and Willy Adames homered, his second of the year, which upped his BA to .236. And the pitchers until Alvarado, did well too, giving up only five hits and one run (no walks) over eight innings. The Rays gave this one away.
Tomorrow's matinee features two aces, Masahiro Tanaka and Blake Snell.
Anthony Bemboom went on the 10-day IL after spraining his left knee (four to six weeks) in his breakout game against the Marlins on Wednesday. The Rays replacement player is Erik Kratz whom they acquired from the Giants for a player to be named later. At age 38, Kratz is not a long-term investment, but he should be just fine as Travis d'Arnaud's backup. In a similar role for the Brewers last season, he hit .236 in 67 games with six home runs and 23 RBIs. There's no telling what is going to happen when Mike Zunino and Michael Perez get back from their stints on the IL, especially if d'Arnaud and Kratz happen to click. More to come.
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