Tell him a message in a bomb.
Eliminate all these provisions: just a game on Friday at Tropicana Field. Only seven games down in the season. The Yankees remain strong, mathematically alive to capture the 2021 championship.
However, if a Yankee tries to tell you that the club didn’t want to open this season’s War series with a Rays maker, after everything that happened last year, connect that person to a lie test. Instead, Aaron Boone’s group, without Aaron Judge again, absorbed strong blows in the tone of a 10-5 loss on the day the Rays raised the flag as defending American League champions.
“We always want to send a message. We always want you to know who you’re playing for, “said Boone. “But the message is sent throughout the year to our game and we have to play [consistently] and play well. If we do that, we will be the team we expect to be. ”
The Yankees, who, as you know, lost eight of the 10 regular season fights and then the AL Division series to the Rays 2020, certainly didn’t present themselves as challenging on this day. On the contrary, they served as a salvo for the Rays, who opened their home program as owners of a 2-4 record, poor performance and injuries that define their first week. Joey Wendle, Tampa Bay’s third baseman, said: “It’s a special kind of game and fun. He was generally one I think we’ll remember.
The strong throw, the shaking and trembling defense and another headache of the judge defined the first week of the Yankees, as they came out 3-3 on their household out of the goal, and Trop did not heal anything to It hurts.
Corey Kluber, whom the Rays also watched last winter, when the Yankees landed him for a staggering $ 11 million, had a poor performance in his second start as the Yankee, failing to make it through the third half. , because he took over the first team ran to the top of the third putting the visitors up, 4-2) and gave it back and then some at the bottom of the frame. In the spirit of spreading guilt, Kluber did not receive much assistance from his defense, the error of throwing the second half of DJ LeMahieu on the ball of Yandy Diaz in the third – LeMahieu passing to the hot corner, because of Gio Urshela suffering effects secondary due to the coronavirus vaccine – initiated a two-stage rally. In the next piece of that rally, LeMahieu’s key substitute, Tyler Wade, couldn’t stop a Wendle defender from reaching the right field.
The rally in the third half began after Yleyhi, a short stop, Gleyber Torres, failed to catch Yoshi Tsutsugo’s mistake on the left after a long run; on another occasion, Tsutsugo hit a single field on the right. While the official scorer didn’t blame Torres for an error, given the difficulty of the game, you couldn’t help but wonder if a more adept shortstop would have made the catch.
“It’s a very difficult piece,” Boone said. “Obvious, [that and the LeMahieu miscue are] the ones we expect to achieve ”.
The Yankees offense continued its hot and cold nature, organizing a beautiful, double rally in front of Rays starter Rich Hill at the top of the third half: Wade single, LeMahieu double, Giancarlo Stanton single run two and Aaron Hicks homer with two races. However, when the Rays punched back, the Yankees did not return the favor, and Nick Nelson – who, like almost everyone in the team’s bullpen, threw exceptionally through the household – let the game slip. out of control with a fourth of four races. The Yankees have managed four baserunners, including a solo homer from LeMahieu, in the last six innings.
Throw another game did not play from the judge, due to his mysterious injury to the left, and the Yankees found few silver liners at the office. Zero reasons to make the rays tremble since their reintroduction.
“We got over it,” said Brandon Lowe, Tampa Bay’s second baseman, about last year’s Yankees-Rays chippy rivalry. “It simply came to our notice then. It’s over with. Move on “.
The Yankees, still trembling, threw the first shot to move the Rays. For such a talented group, they have certainly sent a welcoming message so far.