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Sabathia beats Price; Yanks top Rays 10-2 Roswell Daily Record
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Everything was clicking for CC Sabathia. His pitches were humming, Yankees batters were in a groove and the defense even turned a triple play. Sabathia pitched seven innings for a rare win at Tropicana Field, leading New York past David Price and the Tampa Bay Rays 10-2 Thursday night in a matchup of former AL Cy Young Award winners. Sabathia (2-2) allowed two runs and seven hits, improving to 2-7 in 12 starts at Tropicana Field since joining the Yankees in 2009. He lowered his ERA to 5.19. “I’ve struggled here, especially against Price,” Sabathia said. “For these guys to come out and swing it the way they did, I wanted to be able to put some shutdown innings together, and was able to do that.” Sabathia had six strikeouts and two walks. “He’s reinvented himself,” Rays manager Joe Maddon said. “He pitched really well. The thing that was really obvious was all the called strikes we had today, the taken strikes. There was a lot of them, I thought more than we’ve had in a while.” Price (2-1) entered 6-1 in nine starts against Sabathia but gave up six runs and 10 hits in five innings. Sean Rodriguez hit into a triple play and had a solo homer for the Rays, who have lost four straight. “This is one start,” Price said. “I know you guys blow it up to be a lot more than it really is, but everybody’s going to have their bad days. I had mine.”
Brian Roberts, Jacoby Ellsbury, Brian McCann and rookie Yangervis Solarte drove in two runs each for the Yankees, who have started 10-6 for the fourth consecutive year. Roberts and Ellsbury both had run-scoring triples, and Derek Jeter hit an RBI single during a three-run second that put the Yankees ahead 4-0. New York tripled twice in an inning for the first time since Brett Gardner and Jeter on May 19, 2011, at Baltimore, according to STATS. Alfonso Soriano and McCann made it 6-1 with consecutive homers during the fifth. Solarte added his first major league homer, a two-run shot off Grant Balfour in the ninth Tampa Bay got a run in the fourth when Logan Forsythe scored on McCann’s passed ball, beating Sabathia’s attempted tag at the plate. Rodriguez homered during the seventh. Rodriguez grounded into a triple play for the second time in his career. The Rays had runners on first and second in the second when Rodriguez hit a hard grounder off Sabathia that Solarte fielded, and he stepped on the third to retire Evan Longoria. Solarte threw to Roberts at second base to get Wil Myers. The play ended when Scott Sizemore, who had not played first base in his previous 658 professional games, made a nice scoop of Roberts’ relay throw. “They’re big plays obviously and everyone gets excited,” Yankees manager Joe Girardi said.
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Twins use wild rally past Blue Jays for sweep MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — With the Minnesota Twins well into a truly wild rally, Jason Kubel and Chris Colabello shared a joke as they waited for their turn to bat. “Man, we’ve been doing it all wrong for a while. We’ve been trying to hit the ball to score runs. We don’t need to do that,” Colabello said. Not on Thursday night they didn’t. The Twins scored three straight runs on wild pitches by Toronto’s Sergio Santos in the eighth inning, when they walked eight times off three Blue Jays relievers to finish a 9-5 victory and a sweep of the day-night doubleheader.
Kyle Gibson threw eight scoreless innings as Minnesota won the opener 7-0. The Twins trailed 5-1 in the fifth inning of the second game after another lackluster start by Mike Pelfrey, but they stayed patient. Steve Delabar walked two batters starting the six-run eighth, setting up Santos (0-1) for trouble as manager John Gibbons called for his closer early. Santos walked all three batters he faced, loading the bases with one out when he put on pinch-hitter Trevor Plouffe. The Twins cut the lead to 5-4 when Josmil Pinto came home on a wild pitch. The collapse by the Blue Jays bullpen got worse from there.
missing Wednesday’s game with a dislocated left ring finger. ... Abreu, who was 1 for his last 21 entering the game, was replaced in the lineup by Paul Konerko. ... Red Sox OF Shane Victorino is set to begin a three-game rehab assignment Saturday at Triple-A Pawtucket and could join Boston for his season debut later next week. He was placed on the 15-day disabled list Mar ch 31 with a hamstring strain. ... Chicago purchased the contract of RHP Zach Putnam and designated LHP Donnie Veal for assignment. ... RHP John Lackey (2-1, 3.86 ERA) will start for the Red Sox on Friday in Boston against Baltimore RHP Chris T illman (1-1, 0.84 ERA). ... RHP Felipe Paulino (0-1, 7.98 ERA) will pitch Friday for the White Sox in T exas against LHP Martin Perez (2-0, 2.70 ERA).
Sale got some help from center fielder Adam Eaton in the first inning. With two out, David Ortiz drove a 2-2 pitch to deep leftcenter field, but Eaton jumped and took a home run away by making a one-handed grab. That was the closest either team came to scoring until Bogaerts connected for his first home run of the season, driving a 1-0 pitch deep to left. The White Sox responded in the bottom half. Flowers got on for Chicago’s first baserunner and Gar cia followed with a gr ound-rule double to right. Eaton then reached on an infield single, tying it at 1. Alexei Ramirez’s two-out single in the ninth extended his season-opening hitting streak to 16 games, setting a Chicago record. N O T E S : Napoli was back in the lineup after
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New York’s Yangervis Solarte, right, high fives third base coach Rob Thomson after hitting a ninthinning, two-run home run during the Yankees’ game against Tampa Bay, Thursday.
Ball four by Santos to pinchhitter Kurt Suzuki was wild, too, allowing Chris Herrmann to score and tie the game. Santos threw another wild pitch to Brian Dozier, and pinch-runner Pedro Florimon raced home for the lead. Dozier saw six straight sliders from Santos. “That’s his strikeout pitch,” Dozier said. Not on this night. “I was trying to be too perfect there,” said Santos, who took his first blown save in five chances this year. J.A. Happ relieved him and walked the next two, with Chris Colabello, the AL leader with 19 RBIs, forcing in a run. Then
Lester, Boston down White Sox
CHICAGO (AP) — Jon Lester pitched eight sharp innings and David Ross hit a tiebreaking RBI double in Boston’s two-run ninth, leading the Red Sox to a 3-1 victory over the Chicago White Sox on Thursday night. Lester (2-2) allowed one run and seven hits for his second straight win after opening the season with two losses. The left-hander struck out nine and walked none, winning an impressive pitcher’s duel with White Sox ace Chris Sale. Lester retired his first 16 batters befor e Tyler Flowers singled in the sixth. Xander Bogaerts homered with two out in the sixth for Boston’s only hit off Sale. The game was tied at 1 when Mike Napoli and pinch-hitter Mike Carp had consecutive one-out singles in the ninth for the Red Sox. Ross then had a double to right against Ronald Belisario (1-2), driving home Napoli. Jonathan Herrera added an RBI single against Scott Downs as the Red Sox captured the last two of their three-game set in Chicago. Koji Uehara picked up his thir d save in thr ee tries with a scor eless ninth, getting pinch-hitter Jose Abreu to ground to third to end the game. Sale struck out 10 and threw a career -high 127 pitches in seven innings. The left-hander was trying to become the first White Sox pitcher to start 4-0 since Jose Contreras in 2006. Sale and Lester provided a big lift for the tir ed bullpens on each team. The Red Sox used seven pitchers in a 6-4, 14inning win on Wednesday, while the White Sox used nine, including infielder Leury Gar cia for one inning.
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Jason Kubel broke open the game with a two-run single, the only hit of the inning. “It was a crappy ending to a crappy day, I’ll tell you that,” Gibbons said. Santos, who has been handling the ninth-inning role while Casey Janssen is on the disabled list with a strained back, threw only four of 16 pitches for strikes. The previous time a team walked eight times in one inning was April 19, 1996, when Texas did so against Baltimore. The record of 11 was set by pitchers on the original Washington Senators against the New York Yankees on Sept. 11, 1949. According to STATS research
dating to 1974, this was the only game that featured an eight-walk, three-wild-pitch inning. Casey Fien (2-0) pitched a scoreless eighth for the victory for the Twins. Jose Bautista took over the AL lead with his sixth homer, a solo shot in the fifth inning that accelerated Pelfrey’s exit. Bautista, who also walked and scored in the first, has gone deep 11 times in 14 games at the ballpark the Twins opened in 2010. That’s the same number of homers Joe Mauer has here in 256 games. Edwin Encarnacion had an RBI single and reached base four times for the Blue Jays.
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