The Yankees did not accept their fate of losing a game to the Tampa Bay Rays this afternoon by scoring a run in the top of the ninth inning to secure a 5-5 tie that mercifully ended this preseason exhibition game.
It wasn’t anything you’d want to write home about when Tyler Wade scored the tying run on a throwing error by Ray’s catcher Michael McKenry, but it avoided a mark in the loss column, something the Yankees have found themselves in only seven times during their spring run.
Aaron Judge, Ronald Torreyes, and a rejuvenated Jacoby Ellsbury, who is now hitting a robust .