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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) – Rookie Jake Bauers and the Tampa Bay Rays have made it a weekend lost to the New York Yankees. An injury to Gary Sanchez turned the trip into an even bigger loss.
The Bauers took the lead in the twelfth inning and Tampa Bay completed a three-game sweep of the Yankees with a 7-6 win Sunday.
"It's a feeling of madness," Bauers said.
Yankees manager Aaron Boone said Sanchez had injured his right hip and hip abductor while trying to beat a double-play thief in the 10th and "it's probably going to be a DL situation".
"What can I say?" Sanchez said through a translator. "That's how baseball is sometimes, now I just hope it will not be long."
Sanchez will undergo an MRI exam on Monday.
Giancarlo Stanton doubled twice and took the win with 5 to 5 for New York. The Yankees had been the only team in the major leagues that had not lost three straight games this year – it was the last in any season they had gone without losing three straight games since August 1954.
"Just a weekend of frustration, but you just turned the page," said Boone.
Bauers, who tripled earlier, dominated the first pitch of Chasen Shreve (2-2). Five former New York lifters held Tampa Bay without fail for eight innings.
Brett Gardner opened on the 12th with a simple bunt that saw Rays reliever Jonny Venters stretching his right hamstring and leaving the game.
Venters has not played in the majors since the 2012 wild-card match with Atlanta before joining Tampa Bay this season. The southpaw had three surgeries from Tommy John (2005, 2013, 2014) and another major procedure in 2016.
Venters will be on the disabled list
"I hope it's a slight tension," said Venters. "It's disappointing, but injuries are part of the game."
Ryan Yarbrough (7-3) replaced Venters and worked on his first and third jam by getting a two-on-two grounder from Austin Romine, who replaced Sanchez.
Stanton hit a solo circuit at the eighth of Vidal Nuno who did 6-all. He reached a single infield in the 10th before Sanchez hurt himself.
Nuno gave a point in four sets.
Yankees hitter Clint Frazier lobbed an imposing fly in the ninth which hit a loudspeaker suspended at an overhead walkway and the court-stop Adeiny Hechavarria, as allowed by the rules at Tropicana Field, grabbed the carom for a left on the surface.
Hechavarria missed time earlier this season with a bruise near his eye when a ball took a strange bounce on the grass after hitting a catwalk.
"By the time the play unfolded, once it reached the goal, I thought about that last piece," Hechavarria said through a translator. "It's not going to happen again."
Tampa Bay equalized in the second inning of Hechavarria's solo homer, and went up 6-3 when Carlos Gomez had a RBI single and Jesus Sucre drove in two with a German Domingo double in the third.
"It's always nice to beat the Yankees," said Hechavarria. "And it's good that they leave here a little frustrated to have been swept by us."
This is the second time – also the Chicago Cubs in June 2008 – that Tampa Bay has swept a series of three games or more against a team that has entered a series with the best records of the majors.
Didi Gregorius and Stanton had two consecutive doubles in fifth place to put the score at 6-5. Miguel Andujar gave the Yankees a 3-2 lead on a three-run second-half run.
TRAINER ROOM
Yankees: RHP Masahiro Tanaka, on the 10-day list of injured since June 9 with hamstrings stretched left and right, launched 26 shots in his first training session. He will be back on the mound on Tuesday.
Spokes: Gomez started after missing Saturday's game with a sore left wrist. He was hit by a CC Sabathia pitch on Friday.
First departure
RHP Yankees Luis Cessa (0-0) will make his first start this season Wednesday night in Philadelphia. The move allows Sabathia to take a few extra days off and start the opening game Friday night of a three-game series with Boston at Yankee Stadium.
FOLLOWING
Yankees: RHP Jonathan Loaisiga (1-0) enters his third league game on Monday night against Philadelphia RHP Vince Velasquez (5-7).
Rays: LHP's Blake Snell (9-4), with an extra day off, faces Washington LHP's Gio Gonzalez (6-4) on Monday night.
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