Tough Loss to the Rays
The Yankees are now 2-2 on the season after a 13-4 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays tonight. Ian Kennedy struggled against the Rays in his first start of the season. He pitched only 2.1 innings in which he didn’t have good command over the ball, leading to six runs by the Rays. We aren’t used to seeing this kind of performance from Kennedy because he usually has great command. Hopefully he can get his command back before his next start.
Following Kennedy came in Jonathan Albaladejo, who had a good night. He pitched 2.2 innings, allowing only one hit and striking out four. After Albaladejo were Traber, Hawkins, and Farnsworth in that order. Hawkins had a horrible night allowing six runs to the Rays in .2 innings. Farnsworth closed and gave up the last run to the Rays.
On the offensive side, the Yanks had only six hits. Four runs off of six hits is good, but the offense really needs to start picking it up soon because everyone knows that they can do better.
Overall this game was all over the place for the Yanks. Hopefully everything can come back into place fro tomorrow’s rematch against the Rays. Andy Pettite will make his first appearance of the regular season against Edwin Jackson. The game is at 1:05EST and will be aired on YES.
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