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NEW YORK (AP) \u2014\u00a0Gerrit Cole pitched six scoreless innings in his return<\/a>\u00a0from elbow ligament replacement surgery but shortstop Jos\u00e9 Caballero’s error led to a four-run eighth inning that boosted the Tampa Bay Rays over the New York Yankees 4-2 on Friday night for their 16th win in 19 games.<\/p>\n

Austin Wells homered for the first time since April 28, a fifth-inning drive off Nick Martinez, before Tampa Bay rallied to deal the Yankees their third straight loss and 10th in 14 games. The Rays, a big league-best 34-15, are 4-0 against the Yankees and opened a 5 1\/2-game AL East lead over New York<\/p>\n

Yankees star Aaron Judge went 0 for 4 with a game-ending flyout to the center-field warning track with a man on and is in 1-for-24 slide that dropped his average to .245. Judge has gone a career-high 11 games without any RBIs.<\/p>\n

A 35-year-old right-hander who had surgery in March 2025, Cole allowed two hits and three walks while striking out two. The six-time All-Star and the 2023 AL Cy Young Award averaged 96.1 mph with his four-seam fastball.<\/p>\n

Caballero, back at shortstop after\u00a0missing 10 days with a broken finger<\/a>, allowed Chandler Simpson’s one-hopper to bounce off his glove leading of the eighth.<\/p>\n

Junior Caminero singled off Tim Hill (0-2), Jonathan Aranda followed with an RBI double and Yandy D\u00edaz was intentionally walked. Richie Palacios hit a comebacker that could have been a 1-2-3 double play but the ball bounced off the glove of a leaping Hill, over Caballero and into center for a two-run single. Ryan Vilade added a sacrifice fly.<\/p>\n

Ian Seymour (3-0) allowed Jazz Chisholm Jr.’s RBI triple in the eighth and Bryan Baker got three outs for his 14th save in 17 chances.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay\u2019s Jonny DeLuca left in the seventh after appearing to hurt a leg going from first to third on Cedric Mullins\u2019 double.<\/p>\n

Trent Grisham, who missed Thursday’s game because of a sore knee, had three hits for the Yankees.<\/p>\n

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Yankees RHP Ryan Weathers (2-, 3.58) and Rays RHP Drew Rasmussen (4-1, 3.19) were scheduled to start Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014\u00a0Gerrit Cole pitched six scoreless innings in his return\u00a0from elbow ligament replacement surgery but shortstop…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[6643,49,48,6388,462,44,117331,82,13272,480],"class_list":["post-688477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-associated-press","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-florida","tag-mlb","tag-news","tag-professional-baseball","tag-sports","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-rays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}