The Middletown Press (Middletown, CT)
D’Arnaud, Tampa walk off with win over Bombers
ST. PETERSBURG. Fla.— Travis d’Arnaud hit a twoout homer off Chad Green in the bottom of the ninth inning, lifting the Tampa Bay Rays past the NewYork Yankees 43 on Saturday.
Aaron Hicks had tied it at 3 in the top of the ninth for the Yankees, homering on a 22, twoout pitch from Colin
Poche (21).
D’Arnaud’s winning homer against Green (23) into the rightfield seats got the Rays back within 7 1⁄ games of the AL Eastleading 2 Yankees, who had won the first two games of a fourgame series in extra innings. Tampa Bay is 39 against New York this season.
Itwas just NewYork’s third loss in its last 19 games.
Nate Lowe hit a goahead tworun homer off CC Sabathia in the seventh that gave Tampa Bay a 32 lead. He hit his first big league homer Friday night off Masahiro Tanaka.
Sabathia went a seasonhigh seven innings, giving up three runs and seven hits.
The Yankees went up 21 in the seventh on Hicks’ RBI single off Jose Alvarado, who left with two outs with a right oblique strain.
Blake Snell, last year’s AL Cy Young Award winner, kept the game tied at 1 by getting a shallow fly to right from Aaron Judge and Hicks’ comebacker with the bases loaded in the fifth.
Judge, who fanned in his other two atbats against Snell, is 1 for 12 with eight strikeouts overall against the lefthander.
Snell allowed one run and five hits over five innings. Hewent 23 with a 9.64 ERA in six starts last month.
Brett Gardner put the Yankees
up 10 on a secondinning homer.
D’Arnaud had an RBI single later in the second for the Rays.
MCKAY MOVEMENT
After starting Friday night and not being available to pitch again before the AllStar break, the Rays optioned twoway player Brendan McKay to TripleA Durham and recalled reliever Ian Gibaut. McKay is expected to pitch in Game 1 of a doubleheader next Saturday at Baltimore.
YANKEES MOVES
NewYork optioned INF Mike Ford to TripleA Scranton/WilkesBarre after Friday night’s game. … LHP Daniel Camarenawas signed to amajor League contract before the game Saturday and selected to the Yankees’ 25man roster from Scranton/WilkesBarre.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Yankees: 1B Luke Voit (abdominal strain) remains on target to be back right after the AllStar break. Rays: Reliever Diego Castillo (right shoulder inflammation) threw batting practice and should be back Friday. … INF Matt
Duffy, on the IL all season with a strained left hamstring, will join Class A Charlotte Monday.
UPNEXT
Rays AllStar RHP Charlie Morton (92) and Yankees LHP James Paxton
(53) are Sunday’s starters.