{"id":43040,"date":"2020-08-08T11:41:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-08T08:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/yankees-got-clear-reminder-these-rays-wont-go-away-easy\/"},"modified":"2020-08-08T11:41:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T08:41:00","slug":"yankees-got-clear-reminder-these-rays-wont-go-away-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/yankees-got-clear-reminder-these-rays-wont-go-away-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"#Yankees got clear reminder these Rays won\u2019t go away easy"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Yankees got clear reminder these Rays won\u2019t go away easy<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n \u201cThis was no boat accident.\u201d <\/em>
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\n\u2014 Hooper, \u201cJaws\u201d<\/p>\n

Nope, this was not a defeat to shrug off as an aberration, to chalk it up to one of those days.<\/p>\n

Sure, the Yankees remain the American League leaders and favorites even after their 1-0 loss to the Rays on Friday night at Tropicana Field. Yet they have a bona fide challenger to keep them honest in the form of that low-budget group down in Tampa Bay. This season series<\/a> opener served as a sobering reminder of that reality, not that the Yankees needed it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a good time celebrating. I mean beating the Yankees, man, it\u2019s a good team. It\u2019s a tough team to beat,\u201d said Blake Snell, who started and threw the first three innings. \u201cSo it was definitely happ<\/a>y with us being able to get that victory and being able to celebrate after is always a good sign.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was huge. We definitely needed this W,\u201d said Rays reliever Chaz Roe, the former Yankee, who picked up the win. \u201cHopefully we get this momentum going to [Saturday] and this doubleheader and take care of business.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Rays sweep through the weekend would tie up the two teams, and if that\u2019s not likely, neither is it that the Yankees run away from their nemesis, no matter what preceded this series.<\/p>\n

The Rays entered the game<\/a> 5-7 at this reduced season\u2019s 20 percent mark, a disappointment after taking the Astros to five games in last year\u2019s AL Division Series and beginning the season as many forecasters\u2019 selection for this division crown. Hence the urgency to get going and show the Yankees and themselves what they could do.<\/p>\n

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Gary Sanchez reacts after striking out against the Rays on Friday<\/span>AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

They haven\u2019t hit much this season and didn\u2019t get any better on Friday, as Masahiro Tanaka\u2019s five strong innings (no runs, one hit, five strikeouts, no walks) gave the Yankees reason to smile despite the final result. The Rays nevertheless prevailed because their arms shut down the Yankees\u2019 scary lineup and executed flawlessly and impressively. The winning run came on Michael Perez\u2019s eighth-inning sacrifice fly off Adam Ottavino, the home team capitalizing on a pair of walks and a wild pitch, after Perez fell to the ground upon fouling a ball off his left knee.<\/p>\n

As Rays manager Kevin Cash said, if you had told him prior to the game that his team would record two hits and still pick up a win against the Yankees\u2019 potent lineup, \u201cI\u2019d have called you a liar.\u201d<\/p>\n

Honestly enough, though, the 2018 AL Cy Young Award winner and southpaw Snell, still building up his endurance, kicked things off with three hitless innings (and two walks), succeeding even though, as Cash put it, \u201cThey loaded up a bunch of righties. They loaded up a bunch of really, really good righties. Snell struck out Aaron Judge in both of their two matchups, and Judge now has a single and six walks in 22 plate appearances versus Snell, striking out 10 times.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not saying nothing cause I know if he goes deep, I don\u2019t want nothing in return,\u201d Snell said of Judge. \u201cHe\u2019s a great hitter. I\u2019ve faced him a lot and it\u2019s been going my way. He\u2019s on a tear. Having a great season.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of the five guys who relieved Snell, only Diego Castillo required a bailout, putting men on first and second to start the seventh, and Nick Anderson picked him up, after loading the bases, by striking out Gary Sanchez on three pitches. Shortstop Willy Adames halted an eighth-inning rally when he caught Mike Tauchman trying to advance from second to third on DJ LeMahieu\u2019s bouncer to the left side. In all, the Rays put on a master class in pitching and fundamental baseball.<\/p>\n

The Yankees are not the sort of group that would take an opponent for granted, would call a tight loss an accident. It\u2019s not like they needed to hear a message from the Rays. They got one anyway.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was distant but it was rowdy, it was rowdy. No, I\u2019m just playing,\u201d Snell said, when asked of the postgame scene. The Rays will just play all the way through. The Yankees won\u2019t be able to ignore them.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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