Rays add to mastery of Yankees
NEW YORK — Brandon
Lowe hit a two-run double in the first inning off opener Nick Nelson, and the American League champion Tampa Bay Rays kept up their domination of the New York Yankees with a 8-2 win Friday that set off frustrated fans who caused a brief interruption.
Tampa Bay arrived in New
York with eight losses in 11 games and had not held a lead in 25 innings. The young, athletic Rays spurted to an 8-0, seventhinning lead and beat the Yankees for the 16th time in their past 21 meetings, including during last year’s division series.
New York (5-8) managed a triple crown of failed pitching, hitting and fielding. The Yankees walked seven Rays, had three hits, struck out 14 times and made three errors that led to three unearned runs.
The game was stopped for 2 minutes, 15 seconds with
Clint Frazier batting in the eighth when about a half-dozen balls were thrown on the field from the crowd of 10,202 on a breezy night with a 45-degree temperature at game time.
Michael Wacha (1-1) lowered his ERA from 7.00 to 4.20, allowing one hit in six scoreless innings with nine strikeouts and two walks.
■ Nationals 1, Diamondbacks 0: At Washington, Kyle Schwarber hit a 463-foot walk-off home run in the ninth, and Max Scherzer fanned 10 in seven innings for Washington to pass Cy Young on the career strikeouts list.
■ Orioles 5, Rangers 2:
At Arlington, Texas, Rio Ruiz and D.J. Stewart homered for Baltimore to back Jorge Lopez (1-2), who struck out eight in five innings.
■ Braves 5, Cubs 2: At Chicago, starter Kyle Wright hit four Chicago batters but still left in the fifth with the lead after a last-minute call-up.
■ Phillies 9, Cardinals 2: At Philadelphia, Zach Eflin (1-0) held St. Louis to two runs on six hits and no walks over seven-plus innings.
■ Reds 10, Indians 3: At Cincinnati, Joey Votto hit a tworun homer to cap a third inning in which seven of Cincinnati’s starters scored.
■ Athletics 3, Tigers 0: At Oakland, Calif., Frankie Montas (2-1) shut out Detroit on two hits and struck out seven in six innings.
■ Pirates 6, Brewers 1: At Milwaukee, J.T. Brubaker (2-0) held Milwaukee to one run and struck out eight in six innings.
■ Angels 10, Twins 3: At Anaheim, Calif., Justin Upton hit his first grand slam in Los Angeles’ six-run seventh.
■ Mariners 6, Astros 5:
At Seattle, Ty France’s second double of the night was a walkoff RBI hit in the ninth.
■ Marlins 4, Giants 1: At Miami, Starling Marte snapped an eighth-inning tie with a threerun homer.
■ White Sox at Red Sox, ppd., snow: The game was rescheduled as part of a split doubleheader Sunday.
■ Blue Jays at Royals, ppd., rain: The game was rescheduled as part of a split doubleheader Saturday.
■ Mets at Rockies, ppd., snow: The game was rescheduled as part of a doubleheader Saturday.