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The Yankees continue their strong performance, winning 15 of their last 17 games, while the Rays maintain their lead in the AL East. Framber Valdez struggled in a game against the Red Sox.
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The good times kept rolling for the Yankees on Tuesday night, as they came from behind to beat Jacob deGrom on behalf of since-demoted rookie Elmer RodrĂguez. Theyâve won 15 of their last 17 games and would almost be running away with the AL East already if the Rays werenât off to a scalding-hot start of their own. As such, the AL East lead is a tight game and a half.
Hereâs more on what the Rays and other AL rivals were up to yesterday. As a reminder, the Junior Circuit is aggressively underwhelming right now and weâre technically not even tracking their third-best team (the merely 18-17 Aâs), so youâll forgvive us for doing a recent cull. The entire AL Central is under .500! Itâs not the glory of the 1994 AL West, but woof.
As noted, the surprising Rays arenât slowing down either. Theyâre 11-1 in their last dozen games and could sweep the defending AL champion Blue Jays this afternoon at the Trop. This felt like a vintage Rays victory honestly in that there nothing particularly impressive about it; it was just a clean and efficient handling of the Jays.
The rock-solid Drew Rasmussen actually got Tampa Bay off on the wrong foot by allowing Kazuma Okamotoâs 10th bomb of the young season and an RBI single by in the second. A by Brandon Valenzuela turned into an out at the plate though, and Rasmussen got Springer to ground out to keep it at 2-0, Toronto. The Rays scratched one back in the fourth off with a two-out rally enabled by âs blazing speed (infield hit/stolen base/score from second on a single), and then another the next inning on a bases-loaded double play with no outs. It was good on Gausman to get that to limit the damage, but he had done himself no favors by in the previous at-bat.
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Although Toronto regained the lead in the fifth, they again did so while shooting themselves in the foot. Valenzuela was thrown out at second trying to follow the lead runner on a deep fly out to center. Rookie Yohendrick Piñango drove in one run to make it 3-2, Jays, but that was all they mustered in the inning. They never scored again. It became a battle of the bullpens, and while Jeff Hoffman actually did his job in the seventh for Toronto, free-agent signing Tyler Rogers faltered for pretty much the first time all year after entering play with a 0.55 ERA in 16 games.
With one down, Jonathan Aranda doubled and scored the tying run on a ground-ball single to center by Yandy DĂaz. Jake Fraley followed with a knock and offseason trade acquisition Ben Williamson sent one back up the middle for a hit to put the Rays ahead, 4-3.
Neither DĂaz nor Williamson hit the ball particularly hard in the eighth, but that doesnât matter once the gameâs in the books. And Cole Sulser did his part to quickly slam said book shut with a perfect ninth.
Boston Red Sox (15-21) 10, Detroit Tigers (18-19) 3: The Tigers evidently saw the chaos of the Red Sox clubhouse and decided that theyâd like to have some of that mess as well. The story of the game couldâve been Brayan Bello finding a mini-resurgence in a âbulk guyâ role, entering after an opener and firing seven innings of four-hit, one-run ball as Ceddanne Rafaela, Willson Contreras, and Wilyer Abreu all went yard in a blowout. However, the man who coughed up those clouts is no stranger to making himself the story. (No pun intended.)
After Willson and Wilyer went back-to-back to make it 10-2, Framber Valdez hit Trevor Story in the back on his next pitch. The benches cleared and no punches were thrown, but he was ejected. The Red Sox were understandably furious in the postgame and even Tigers manager A.J. Hinch seemed to question Valdezâs intentions despite his pitcherâs denial. Now, Valdez might have gotten himself suspended with a Tigers rotation already reeling from losing ace Tarik Skubal for months due to his elbow surgery. Yikes.
Cleveland Guardians (18-19) 3, Kansas City Royals (17-19) 5: KC already looked dead in the water when the Yankees swept âem in mid-April, but it helps to play in the AL Central. With just one hot streakânow a five-game winning streakâtheyâre right back in the mix of things, tied with the White Sox (!) at half a game back of the first-place tie between the Guardians and Tigers. Although Stephen Kolek had surrendered a three-run bomb to Clevelandâs Rhys Hoskins to put the Guardos ahead, Michael Massey immediately countered in the home half of the fourth with a two-run homer of his own off Gavin Williams. The latter got burned for another dinger by Isaac Collins and that was all she wrote.
Seattle Mariners (17-20) 2, Atlanta Braves (26-11) 3: The Yankees were briefly tied with the Braves for the best record in baseball yesterday, but a couple hours after New York got even with Atlanta at 25-11, the scorching-hot Braves jumped ahead by a win. The Mâs initially jumped ahead on a two-run homer by J.P. Crawford, but that was one of just two hits allowed by the resurgent Bryce Elder, who fanned nine in six innings. Mauricio DubĂłn quickly tied it up on a two-run double to plate Matt Olson and Ozzie Albies, and the powerful first baseman delivered a majestic, eventual-game-winning blow with a 412-foot shot in the ninth, his 13th of the season to pace the NL. Olson leads the majors with 15 doubles, 35 runs, 33, RBI, and 2.4 fWAR, his 190 wRC+ trailing only ⊠Ben Rice (amazing).