Yankees southpaw Nestor Cortes faced perhaps his biggest test of the 2022 season to date last night when he squared off with the Rays at Tropicana Field. Those hitters always seem to find a way to turn the Yankees’ screws — particularly at the Trop — but Cortes tamed them over eight brilliant innings, not allowing a run until the ninth. The Yankees won, 7-2.
With one rival result already down and the Astros off, here’s what happened to the rest of New York’s main opponents.
Don’t look now, but the Red Sox have won four series in a row after taking two out of three in Chicago in pretty emphatic fashion.