A RARE FEAT Tampa Bay Rays starting pitcher Ryan Yarbrough winds up during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees, Thursday (Friday in Manila) at Yankee Stadium in New York. Yarbrough ended a 24-start winless skid with Tampa Bay's first complete game in more than five years, Austin Meadows homered off shaky Yankees ace Gerrit Cole and drove in five runs, and the Rays beat New York 9-2. Tampa Bay had gone a major league record streak of 731 games without a complete game since Matt Andriese's two-hit shutout of Oakland on May 14, 2016. The AL East-leading Rays salvaged a four-game split, improving to 10-3 at Yankee Stadium since the start of last season. New York fell 4 1/2 games behind Tampa Bay and has dropped seven of 10 entering their first series this year against the rival Red Sox.

Source: Manila Times June 04, 2021 16:07 UTC