The New York Yankees failed to get anything going on offense in their ALDS opener against the Tampa Bay Rays. <\/p>\n
Drew Rasmussen threw 7.2 innings of no-hit ball to shut down the Yankees order in the 1-0 Rays victory. <\/p>\n
New York’s lineup only managed one hit versus Rasmussen and Rays closer Bryan Baker. The one hit, a double by Austin Wells, was eliminated immediately as the catcher was thrown out at third trying to extend the double to a triple. <\/p>\n
Tampa Bay’s pitching staff was the story of Game 1. <\/p>\n
Drew Rasmussen fanned 10 batters over eight innings. He didn’t give up a hit until the seventh inning.<\/p>\n
The Yankees’ only hit of the night was a double by Austin Wells with two out in the seventh inning. <\/p>\n
Wells tried to extend the double into a triple, but he was thrown out by a wide margin at third base to end the Yankees’ only real offensive threat of the night. <\/p>\n
Cody Bellinger, Spencer Jones and Trent Grisham all struck out twice in Game 1. <\/p>\n
Tampa Bay’s only run came on a Jonathan Aranda home run in the third inning.<\/p>\n
Gerrit Cole turned in a solid outing for the Yankees. He struck out five batters across five innings. The Yankees bullpen did a solid job containing the Rays to give their offense a chance to win the game in the latter innings. <\/p>\n
Game 2 between the Yankees and Rays is scheduled for Monday. Cam Schlittler will pitch for the Yankees, while the Rays have yet to confirm a starter. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Yankees failed to get anything going on offense in their ALDS opener against the Tampa…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":915440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-915439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/915440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}