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
By SportsDirect Inc.
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 |
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 |