It seems like whenever the Yanks and Rays match up, the game comes down to the wire and it certainly did it in last nights game. Aaron Judge was about 3 feet away from tying up the ball game, but the difference of 3 feet gave the Rays to win. It was a bit of a weird game nonetheless.
To start off, Nestor Cortes was pulled early after giving up three home runs early in the ball game. He was then pulled and Clarke Schmidt gave up another homer to give Cortes 4 earned runs. Whenever Cortes gives up more than three earned runs, it’s a pretty weird start because it is a rarity.
Schmidt and Cortes gave up 3 home runs to Issac Paredes who is not known as a home run hitter. They were all solo shots, but they were the difference in the ball game. After Schmidt was pulled, Marinaccio and Luetge gave the Yanks three dominant, no-hit innings. It’s not everyday you see Cortes going only 4.1 innings and giving up 4 earned runs.
The Yankees were in it until their last at bat as Marwin Gonzalez belted a two run homer in the top of the ninth to give the Yankees a chance to pinch-hit Aaron Judge to try and possibly tie up the game. Gonzalez is starting to get some power as he has homered in the last two series.
Judge stepped to the plate and the first pitch he saw he flew out to the warning track in left field. If the pitch was just a little more outside than it would’ve been a tie ball game. The Yankee show yet again and that they are never out of any ball game and always fight back.
The Yanks try to win yet another series today with Jordan Montgomery on the mound in the rubber game of this three-game series. If the Yankees can get a better starting pitching performance from Montgomery then Cortes, then they could easily take this series against the injury-riddled Rays and head home happy.
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