Final
Rays rally in seventh to top Yankees
Jul 20, 2011 - 6:14 AMVideo
Hellickson (9-7) allowed two runs on five hits and a walk while striking out seven as the Rays snapped their three-game losing streak.
"I wasn't very effective there the first few innings, threw a lot of pitches," Hellickson said. "I ended up really good."
Joel Peralta pitched a perfect ninth inning to earn his first save of the year.
Bartolo Colon (6-6) went 6 1/3 innings, allowing three runs -- two earned -- on five hits and two walks. He also struck out a season-high nine batters as New York saw its three-game win streak come to an end.
Trailing by a score of 2-1 in the bottom of the seventh, Robinson Chirinos and Sean Rodriguez hit back-to-back singles to knock Colon off the mound.
Boone Logan entered next and got pinch-hitter Justin Ruggiano to launch a towering fly ball into center field, but Curtis Granderson lost it in the roof of Tropicana Field and it fell to the ground, loading the bases. Pinch-hitter Elliot Johnson came up next and hit a chopper to the mound that Logan deflected into the air, allowing everyone to move up a bag safely and scoring Chirinos.
"What are you going to do? You lose a lot of balls in this stadium," Logan said. "It just started from there. Sometimes games end up being like this."
Johnny Damon then hit a blooper into shallow center field. Granderson made a sliding catch on the ball, but Rodriguez hustled home as Granderson's throw sailed past Russell Martin at the plate to give the Rays a 3-2 lead.
Mark Teixeira hit a two-out, broken-bat double down the right-field line in the third and Robinson Cano followed by hammering a home run over the left- center field wall, giving the Yankees a 2-0 lead.
The Rays made it a one-run game in the fifth after Sam Fuld tripled over the head of Granderson in left-center field and came home on Reid Brignac's base hit to right.
New York had a chance to put the game away in the top of the seventh, but failed to convert on the opportunity. Brett Gardner hit a two-out single and stole second during an Eduardo Nunez at-bat. Nunez eventually worked a walk and a double-steal by the baserunners put men on second and third. But Derek Jeter hit a weak grounder to first to end the inning, spoiling the Yankees' chance.
Game Notes
New York placed pitcher Sergio Mitre on the 15-day disabled list and recalled pitcher Steve Garrison from Double-A Trenton Tuesday...Before Cano's homer in the third inning, New York had not hit a home run in four straight games, tying a season-high homerless drought...Gardner's two stolen bases in the seventh inning increased his career-best streak to 15 straight without being caught...Tampa Bay improved to 3-4 against New York this season...Tampa Bay's Ben Zobrist exited in the seventh inning after fouling a ball off his right calf in the sixth. He's day-to-day.
- NEW YORK: 2
TAMPA BAY: 3
Final
Jul 19 10:16 PM - Reid Brignac single to right scored Sam Fuld with one out. Runner on first with one out and Johnny Damon due up.
Yankees 2, Rays 1 Bot 5, 1 OutJul 19 8:47 PM - NEW YORK: 0
TAMPA BAY: 0
Top 1, 0 Outs
Jul 19 7:10 PM
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