New York Yankees 6, Tampa Bay Rays 5
NEW YORK — On the night that he was given a bobblehead, Anthony Rizzo hit two home runs. The New York Yankees beat the Tampa Bay Rays, 6-5, thanks to a two-run home run in the eighth inning.
On Star Wars Night, Rizzo’s bobblehead was dressed like a Mandalorian, and he hit a home run against Trevor Kelly in the first.
Josh Lowe’s three-run homer off Michael King in the eighth gave the league-leading Rays a 5-4 lead. In the bottom of the inning, Judge walked against Jason Adam (0-1) and Rizzo hit a home run to right. Rizzo took off his helmet when he got a curtain call after hitting his 22nd home run.
Wandy Peralta got his first save of the season after a one-hit ninth in which he struck out two batters. With two outs and one runner on, Rays manager Kevin Cash sent right-handed hitter Manuel Margot to hit in place of left-handed hitter Lowe, who had eight RBI in the first two games of the series. Margot got a strike.
Both Randy Arozarena and Jose Siri hit home runs off of Gerrit Cole, with Arozarena doing it in the first inning and Siri doing so in the second.
Anthony Volpe, a rookie for the Yankees, had been leading off for 23 straight games before he went on a 7-for-53 skid and was moved to seventh in the order. He hit a home run in the fifth inning to make the score 2-2, and then he hit an RBI single in the seventh inning to put the Yankees ahead. The score was 4–2 when Oswaldo Cabrera hit a single that scored two runs.
Clay Holmes (1-2) left two runners on base in the eighth, but Wander Franco struck out and Arozarena was out on a comebacker. Franco went 0 for 5 the day after leaving in the fifth inning with a neck pain.
Last-place New York beat the Rays for the third time in five games this season, cutting the lead in the AL East by eight games.
After hitting home runs, Arozarena, Siri, and Lowe all pointed to their biceps and grinned at the Rays’ bench.
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