ST. PETERSBURG – You knew the Rays would make it difficult.
They’d lost enough games to the Yankees that it wasn’t going to be easy to end the mastery and the misery. So after they blew a lead in the ninth, they came back to win it in the ninth, with a two-out walkoff homer by Travis d’Arnaud, 4-3.
The Rays looked to have finally beaten the Yankees earlier. A two-run homer by rookie Nate Lowe with two outs in the seventh had given them a one-run lead. Patchwork relief work after Jose Alvarado left injured by Jake Faria and Oliver Drake got them two outs in the ninth.