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Art Deco · 01-04-2021, 09:00 AM

Game 1: The Rays raced out to a 7-2 lead in the 6th inning and needed every one of those runs as they held on to beat the Yankees 7-6 and open up a 2 1/2-game AL East lead. Alec Sachais got the start and he was brilliant, except for Vidal Brujan's solo HR leading off the game and a later longball to Victor Robles, going 7 6 2 2 0 9 to start the young season 3-0, 2.63. Meanwhile they used the longball to build the lead, with solo shots from Keibert Ruiz (#3) and Julio Cedillo (#2) and a Cedillo RBI single to hold a 3-2 lead going into the 6th, when they had a big inning. Connor Kirkley's infield single scored a run and then Judson Fabian smacked a 3-run HR (#4) to make it 7-2. After Sachais left, Mike Mooney took over in the 8th and it did not go well at all. Mooney loaded the bases with one out, and Daniel Espino came to face Miguel Sano, who hit a sac fly to make it 7-3, and then Espino continued his bad habit of allowing homers this season by serving up a 3-run blast to Robles to cut it to 7-6. With JDLC and Alvarado showing tired, Espino stayed in and got the final out of the 8th and a 1-2-3 9th to grab a shaky save #1 of the season. Cedillo and Ruiz were a terror at the bottom of the order with each going 3-4.

MLB News: Taylor Clarke of the Diamondbacks pitched a no-hitter (despite 45 stuff) against the Giants, walked 3, whiffing 8, and only throwing 99 pitches so it was a Maddux as well.

Game 2: In the mirror image of yesterday's game it was the Yankees who took a 6-2 lead and had to hang on for a 6-5 win over the Rays today. Mack Anglin started and was brilliant through 4 1/3, allowing only one hit on a Tyree Reed homer and striking out 7. But the wheels came off with one out in the 5th, as Anglin loaded the bases and after he got the second out with a whiff, Vidal Brujan got revenge on his former team with a bases-clearing triple to make it 4-2 New York. A Victor Robles double and a Vlad Jr. single made it 6-2 and Anglin departed with a 4.2 6 6 6 1 8 line. Evan Godwin, Andy Aparicio and Jose Alvarado shut the Yanks down the rest of the way to allow the bats to attempt a comeback, and they did try with a Spencer Torkelson RBI single in the 6th and a 2-run HR by Isaac DeLeon (#6) off former Ray Diego Castillo in the 8th which made it 6-5. But that was all they could manage as the Yankees move back within 1 1/2. The Rays' first two runs came in the 4th on a Nate Clark RBI single and Tork's sac fly.

Game 3: The Rays took the rubber game of the series against the Yankees with a 5-3 win. The star on the mound was as usual Christian Little, who went 6.2 5 2 2 0 10 with the two runs being a pair of Vlad Jr solo homers, and the star at the plate was Jhon Diaz, who slugged a pair of homers himself, a solo shot in the 2nd and a 2-run blast in the 6th that provided the margin of victory. Daniel Espino got Little out of the 7th, but gave up a leadoff hit in the 8th and had to leave the game with back stiffness which will keep him out a couple of days. This brought on Jordan Diaz who made things interesting to say the least. He gave up a single to Vidal Brujan and a double to Derek Crum to make it 5-3 with men on 2nd and 3rd and nobody out and the heart of the Yankee order coming up. But he consecutively struck out Vlad Jr., Victor Robles and Miguel Sano to get out of the inning and Jasseel De La Cruz had a much quieter 1-2-3 9th to get his third save. Little is now 4-1, 2.30. The Rays got on the board in the bottom of the 1st after Vlad's first HR when Connor Kirkley led off with a double and scored on Jud Fabian's sac fly. Diaz's first HR gave them a 2-1 lead before Vlad equalized for New York, and Joe Barker hit #3 in the 4th to make it 3-2 Rays and Diaz's 3rd of the year and second of the game made it 5-2 in the 6th. The Rays now lead New York by 2 1/2 games.

Team record: 14-7. Next up: A Midwest road trip starts with 4 games in Chicago against the White Sox.

01-04-2021, 09:00 AM	#543
Art Deco Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2020 Posts: 7,407	April 23-25, 2029: vs NY Yankees (3) Game 1: The Rays raced out to a 7-2 lead in the 6th inning and needed every one of those runs as they held on to beat the Yankees 7-6 and open up a 2 1/2-game AL East lead. Alec Sachais got the start and he was brilliant, except for Vidal Brujan's solo HR leading off the game and a later longball to Victor Robles, going 7 6 2 2 0 9 to start the young season 3-0, 2.63. Meanwhile they used the longball to build the lead, with solo shots from Keibert Ruiz (#3) and Julio Cedillo (#2) and a Cedillo RBI single to hold a 3-2 lead going into the 6th, when they had a big inning. Connor Kirkley's infield single scored a run and then Judson Fabian smacked a 3-run HR (#4) to make it 7-2. After Sachais left, Mike Mooney took over in the 8th and it did not go well at all. Mooney loaded the bases with one out, and Daniel Espino came to face Miguel Sano, who hit a sac fly to make it 7-3, and then Espino continued his bad habit of allowing homers this season by serving up a 3-run blast to Robles to cut it to 7-6. With JDLC and Alvarado showing tired, Espino stayed in and got the final out of the 8th and a 1-2-3 9th to grab a shaky save #1 of the season. Cedillo and Ruiz were a terror at the bottom of the order with each going 3-4. MLB News: Taylor Clarke of the Diamondbacks pitched a no-hitter (despite 45 stuff) against the Giants, walked 3, whiffing 8, and only throwing 99 pitches so it was a Maddux as well. Game 2: In the mirror image of yesterday's game it was the Yankees who took a 6-2 lead and had to hang on for a 6-5 win over the Rays today. Mack Anglin started and was brilliant through 4 1/3, allowing only one hit on a Tyree Reed homer and striking out 7. But the wheels came off with one out in the 5th, as Anglin loaded the bases and after he got the second out with a whiff, Vidal Brujan got revenge on his former team with a bases-clearing triple to make it 4-2 New York. A Victor Robles double and a Vlad Jr. single made it 6-2 and Anglin departed with a 4.2 6 6 6 1 8 line. Evan Godwin, Andy Aparicio and Jose Alvarado shut the Yanks down the rest of the way to allow the bats to attempt a comeback, and they did try with a Spencer Torkelson RBI single in the 6th and a 2-run HR by Isaac DeLeon (#6) off former Ray Diego Castillo in the 8th which made it 6-5. But that was all they could manage as the Yankees move back within 1 1/2. The Rays' first two runs came in the 4th on a Nate Clark RBI single and Tork's sac fly. Game 3: The Rays took the rubber game of the series against the Yankees with a 5-3 win. The star on the mound was as usual Christian Little, who went 6.2 5 2 2 0 10 with the two runs being a pair of Vlad Jr solo homers, and the star at the plate was Jhon Diaz, who slugged a pair of homers himself, a solo shot in the 2nd and a 2-run blast in the 6th that provided the margin of victory. Daniel Espino got Little out of the 7th, but gave up a leadoff hit in the 8th and had to leave the game with back stiffness which will keep him out a couple of days. This brought on Jordan Diaz who made things interesting to say the least. He gave up a single to Vidal Brujan and a double to Derek Crum to make it 5-3 with men on 2nd and 3rd and nobody out and the heart of the Yankee order coming up. But he consecutively struck out Vlad Jr., Victor Robles and Miguel Sano to get out of the inning and Jasseel De La Cruz had a much quieter 1-2-3 9th to get his third save. Little is now 4-1, 2.30. The Rays got on the board in the bottom of the 1st after Vlad's first HR when Connor Kirkley led off with a double and scored on Jud Fabian's sac fly. Diaz's first HR gave them a 2-1 lead before Vlad equalized for New York, and Joe Barker hit #3 in the 4th to make it 3-2 Rays and Diaz's 3rd of the year and second of the game made it 5-2 in the 6th. The Rays now lead New York by 2 1/2 games. Team record: 14-7. Next up: A Midwest road trip starts with 4 games in Chicago against the White Sox. Last edited by Art Deco; 01-04-2021 at 03:49 PM.