NEW YORK — Gerrit Cole shook his head, disgusted. Aaron Hicks put fingers on hips and bowed his head. By the top of the afternoon, just about all the New York Yankees had been appalled, together with their loudly booing followers.
Yoshi Tsutsugo hit a tiebreaking double off Cole within the seventh inning that lifted the Tampa Bay Rays to a Four-2 win on Sunday and a three-game sweep that prolonged the Yankees’ shedding streak to 5 video games. New York fell to an American League-worst 5-10, its poorest begin since 1997.
“I am annoyed, personally annoyed,” stated reigning AL batting champion DJ LeMahieu, who concluded the Yankees had been “tight and urgent.”
“Nobody’s going to really feel sorry for us,” he stated. “Nobody’s going to throw softer or throw simpler for us. We have got to search out it inside ourselves to proceed to get higher and play the best way we’re able to.”
Opener Andrew Kittredge, Ryan Yarbrough (1-2), Diego Castillo and Jeffrey Springs (first huge league save) mixed on the Rays’ second three-hitter of a sequence by which New York managed 11 hits in all. Tampa Bay outscored the Yankees 17-7, and New York pushed throughout simply three runs aside from on homers.
“We bought nice gamers in that room,” Yankees supervisor Aaron Boone insisted. “They do know that at their core, clearly, we’re getting punched within the mouth proper now.”
Cole (2-1) was damage by slipshod protection that made three errors within the Rays’ two-run third inning alone, two by Hicks in middle and one by Clint Frazier in left. One of many three runs off Cole was unearned, giving the Yankees a serious league-high 10.
Tampa Bay’s Joey Wendle added a ninth-inning homer off Darren O’Day, prompting boos from the gang of 10,606, who saved their loudest jeers for the ultimate out.
New York has misplaced 5 straight for the primary time since Sept. Four-Eight, getting outscored 30-14.
“It’s important to strap your boots on and wade by means of the mud somewhat bit,” Cole stated. “If we keep in that mindset and we go away the sphere day-after-day exhausted, good issues are on the horizon. However I haven’t got the magic wand; I do not know when it’ll flip.”
Aaron Judge struck out thrice, and he’s 4 for his previous 28. Hicks has one hit in his previous 15 at-bats, Gleyber Torres three in his previous 24 and Giancarlo Stanton, regardless of a second-inning residence run, is three for his previous 26. Frazier is one for his previous 24 and doesn’t have an RBI in 40 plate appearances this season.
New York’s batting common is right down to .210, one level above the AL-worst Cleveland Indians.
Boone stated his hitters have to protect in opposition to “being obsessive about chasing a end result, which is tough to do once you get off to a gradual begin individually. You need to get a success so unhealthy that that may typically work in opposition to you.”
Yarbrough allowed one run and two hits in 5 innings, and the Rays beat the Yankees for the 16th time in 21 conferences, together with in final 12 months’s AL Division Sequence. The Rays swept a sequence for the second time of their previous three visits to Yankee Stadium after sweeping simply two of their earlier 51 sequence of three video games or extra within the Bronx.
“It is simply not a simple factor to do. It does not occur fairly often,” Rays supervisor Kevin Money stated. “So you have to get pleasure from it when it does.”
Cole retired 13 in a row earlier than Wendle singled with one out within the seventh. Tsutsugo, his common right down to .146, adopted by driving a changeup to right-center for an RBI double and a Three-2 lead.
Tampa Bay had gone forward 2-1 within the third after Mike Zunino‘s leadoff single. Hicks bought a late break on Kevin Kiermaier‘s bloop to quick middle, then bobbled the ball and misplaced an opportunity for a forceout at second. Yandy Diaz adopted with an RBI single, as Hicks allowed the ball to kick off his glove for an error that permit Kiermaier take third.
Frazier heaved the ball previous second, as Diaz superior on Manuel Margot‘s go-ahead sacrifice fly.
LeMahieu hit a tying single within the fifth, when Yarbrough struck out Choose with two on and two out.
Tampa Bay, off to a gradual begin within the protection of its AL pennant, bought again to .500 at Eight-Eight.
“We simply wished to form of get again on monitor,” Yarbrough stated.