Rays 2, Yankees 1
Record: 52-39
Attendance: 20,091
Saturday's miracle win--that was Travis d'Arnaud's walkoff home run in the bottom of the ninth--was repeated in a much less dramatic fashion on Sunday. The Rays managed to score two in the first, Tommy Pham driving home d'Arnaud with a double and Avisail Garcia driving in Pham with a ground ball force out to third. The Yankees answered with a solo homer from Brett Gardner in the top of the second. And that was it for scoring, the Rays holding on for a 2-1 win. That's a lot of holding on against the Yankees, but the Rays did it, making it two miracles in two days.
But here's the thing: dramatic miracles or not, Sunday's win gave the Rays a split in the series, which hardly seemed possible after the way they lost games one and two in the four-game set by three-run homers, one in the top of the ninth and one in the eleventh. Serious fans were bailing ship.
Charlie Morton got the win on Sunday for five and two-thirds innings (one run, five hits, one walk, one HR, and 10 Ks). He ran his All-Star record to 10-2, with a league-leading ERA of 2.32. Then the bullpen came through with three and a third innings of flawless work, Emilio Pagan picking up his fifth save in the ninth, when he struck out two. Miracle, miracle, miracle.
We are now officially at the All-Star break, real games beginning again on Friday July 12 at the Orioles in Baltimore, followed by four more games against the Yankees in the Bronx. It's good thee Rays get a long breather between now and Yankees II. They need it.
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