We made a lot of good pitches and it kept us in the ball game.” “We struggled to get anybody on after the first, so it was pretty tight and that forces you to make some pitches. “I kept us in the ball game, obviously a tight one,” he said. He threw 105 pitches, including 26 each in the first and sixth innings. Wander Franco led off Rays eighth and scored on Margot's hit.Īfter walking Yandy Diaz to lead off the first, Cole retired 14 in a row before giving up his first hit, Mejia's two-out single in the fifth.Ĭole is 1-6 in 12 career starts against Tampa Bay. Kiermaier was thrown out at the plate by first baseman Anthony Rizzo on a grounder, but Diaz bounced a chopper down the third-base line for a 2-1 lead. It just kind of (fell) in that perfect spot where it’s going to be a tough play." ”It looked to me like Gleyber got a pretty good break on it. “When it first went up, I thought, 'oh no, it’s in no-man’s land out there,’" Yankees manager Aaron Boone said.
Francisco Mejia followed with the key hit of the game - a popup down the right-field line that dropped for a double when second baseman Gleyber Torres overran the ball. With the score 1-all, Kevin Kiermaier opened the Rays seventh with a single on the first pitch thrown by reliever Lucas Luetge (1-2). Jason Adam also pitched an inning in the combined four-hitter. Colin Poche pitched the ninth for his second save in two tries. Feyereisen (4-0) got the win his 19th straight scoreless relief appearance. Last May, the two-time Cy Young Award winner pitched a no-hitter for the Yankees against Texas.Ĭole struck out 10, giving up one run and two hits with three walks. Kluber allowed one run and three hits, walking none and striking out five. “When they have good pitching, you have to make adjustments and I think in time, we were able to make that adjustment and get those runs on base.” “Like we say, if you can’t hit the starter, hit the reliever,” Margot said through a translator.
Yandy Diaz had a tiebreaking infield hit in the seventh and Manuel Margot extended his hitting streak to 15 games with an RBI single in the eighth. Corey Kluber and Gerrit Cole dueled evenly for six impressive innings before the Tampa Bay Rays scored a pair of late runs to beat the Yankees 3-1 Saturday, ending New York’s four-game winning streak. Kluber, Cole duel, Rays end Yankees' 4-game winning streak
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