Major League Baseball
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Tampa Bay 6, NY Yankees 5
When: 6:40 PM ET, Monday, May 16, 2011
Where: Tropicana Field, St. Petersburg, Florida
Temperature: Indoors
Umpires: Home - Rob Drake, 1B - Gary Darling, 2B - David Rackley, 3B - Paul Emmel
Attendance: 25024

Sam Fuld and B.J. Upton each belted two-run homers in the sixth inning as the Tampa Bay Rays came from behind Monday night for a 6-5 win over the visiting New York Yankees, who have lost six straight.

Fuld cut the lead to 5-3 with his second of the season, Matt Joyce singled home a run and Upton capped the rally with his sixth of the season off Yankees starter and loser A.J. Burnett (4-3).

The Rays (24-17) had not scored more than five runs in their first 22 games of the season at Tropicana Field. Juan Cruz (2-0) got the win in relief and Kyle Farnsworth earned his eighth save. Rays relievers allowed just one hit in four innings.

Eduardo Nunez had a two-run single in the second and Curtis Granderson hit a three-run homer - his 14th - in the fifth inning to give the Yankees (20-19) a 5-1 lead off Tampa Bay ace David Price.

Price allowed five runs on six hits in five innings. Granderson’s home run was the second by a lefthanded hitter against Price in his major league career. The first was by Chase Utley of Philadelphia, June 23, 2009.

Burnett was charged with six runs and eight hits in 5 2/3 innings.


Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
NY Yankees   Tampa Bay
A.J. Burnett Player David Price
Loss W/L No Decision
5.2 IP 5.0
3 Strikeouts 5
8 Hits 6
9.53 ERA 9.00
Hitting
NY Yankees   Tampa Bay
Robinson Cano Player Casey Kotchman
2 Hits 2
0 RBI 0
0 HR 0
2 TB 2
.500 Avg .667
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
NY Yankees 7 1 10 .206 8 7 5 1 0 1
Tampa Bay 9 3 19 .300 7 5 6 3 0 1