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04/12 15:38 CDT Drew Rasmussen goes 6 scoreless and Rays finish 1st 3-game
sweep of Yankees since 2021 with 5-4 win
Drew Rasmussen goes 6 scoreless and Rays finish 1st 3-game sweep of Yankees
since 2021 with 5-4 win
By KRISTIE ACKERT
Associated Press
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) --- Drew Rasmussen allowed one hit in six scoreless
innings, and the Tampa Bay Rays completed their first three-game sweep of the
Yankees since 2021, holding on to beat New York 5-4 on Sunday.
Returning after missing time for the birth of his daughter, Rasmussen (1-0)
struck out seven without a walk. The Rays moved above .500 for the first time
this season at 8-7 and extended the Yankees' losing streak to five games.
Aaron Judge hit his fourth homer of the season, a 415-foot, two-run shot with
no outs in the ninth against Mason Englert that got New York within one.
Englert retired the next two batters, then allowed a double to Amed Rosario.
After an intentional walk to Austin Wells, Englert retired Ryan McMahon on a
grounder for his first save as the Yankees fell to 0-6 in one-run games this
season.
New York's Cam Schlittler (2-1) allowed three runs on a career-high-tying seven
hits over five innings. Schlittler walked his first batter in four starts this
season when Yandy Daz got a free pass in the third.
Tampa Bay's Chandler Simpson went 3 for 4, scored twice, stole his seventh base
and has reached base in all 15 games this season.
The Rays did their damage early. Simpson and Junior Caminero hit back-to-back
singles in the first, and Simpson scored on Daz's groundout. In the second,
Cedric Mullins tripled and scored on Richie Palacios' single. Palacios came
around on Simpson's base hit to make it 3-0.
Before a crowd of 20,796 at Tropicana Field, the Yankees rallied against the
Rays bullpen.
Ben Rice led off the seventh with a ground-rule double and scored on Cody
Bellinger's single. Giancarlo Stanton's pinch-hit grounder scored Judge to make
it 4-2.
Up next
Will Warren (1-0, 3.07) and the Yankees host Yusei Kikuchi (0-2, 6.75) and the
Angels on Monday. Shane McClanahan (0-1, 4.15) takes the mound for Tampa Bay on
Tuesday at Chicago against Noah Schultz and the White Sox.
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