Game 95: Yankees (Cortes) at Rays (Baz)

Rice takes a change low, 1-0
Gets a bad slider hanging outside middle, drives it to the wall in deep right center, but it dies on the track. Siri catches, inning over.
Yanks thisclose to back to back to bach HRs there.

Bottom 3, tied at 2. 9 pitches for Baz in the 3rd, 41 through 3.
Now Nestor has to hold things together against hitters who hit him very hard.

Diaz, Arozarena and B. Lowe.

Diaz takes a cutter above and outside middle, 0-1
Takes a FB high, inner half.
Gets a cutter waist high, inside corner, hits a bazooka blast down the line in left, one-hops the low wall in the corner for a leadoff double.

Arozarena...
FB in the zone at the top middle, he almost got to that one, fouls it off.
Change stays outside, 1-1
Cutter backs up and away 2-1.
Beats him with a FB tailing just outside waist high, huge hack by Arozarena but he missed under it, 2-2

Change tailing outside near the bottom Arozaruna pulls it to Volpe's right, he runs around the backhand, fields and fires a strike, holding Diaz at 2nd with 1 out.

Cutter in the zone low/away on the first pitch, Lowe serves it just out of Volpe's lunging reach into left center for a hit, they send Diaz and Verdugo's throw home is late and off-line, and allows Lowe to got to 2nd with 1 out. Rays immediately re-take the lead, 3-2.

Paredes gets a cutter outside, takes, 1-0
Takes a slider that hangs well outside, 2-0
Takes a cutter inside, 3-0
Give him a thigh high FB on 3-0, he fouls it off.
Cutter misses up and away ball 4. 1st and 2nd, 1 out, Rosario up, and Blake goes out there to try to give him a re-set.

No Yankees going to need to keep scoring tonight for sure.

He's the anti-Sonny Gray.