POSTGAME NOTES NEW YORK YANKEES (4-4) vs. TAMPA BAY RAYS (5-4) WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 2017 R H E LOB SERIES TAMPA BAY RAYS 4 9 2 7 0 NEW YORK YANKEES 8 8 1 7 2 STARTING TIME: 1:10 p.m. TIME OF GAME: 3:33 GAME-TIME TEMPERATURE: 63 degrees PAID ATTENDANCE: 38,002 WINNING PITCHER: Bryan Mitchell (1-0) PITCH COUNTS (Total Pitches/Strikes): LOSING PITCHER: Jumbo Díaz (0-1) Yankees: Jordan Montgomery (89/61) SAVE: Aroldis Chapman (1) Rays: Blake Snell (83/47) HOME RUNS (2017 TOTAL / INNING / RUNNERS ON BASE / OUTS / COUNT / PITCHER / SCORE AFTER HR) YANKEES RAYS Aaron Judge (#3 / 7th inn. / 1 on / 2 out / 1-1 / Ramírez / NYY 8 – TB 3) Rickie Weeks Jr. (#1 / 1st inn. / 1 on / 2 out / 1-2 / Montgomery / TB 2 - NYY 0) NEW YORK YANKEES NOTES • The Yankees have won each of their first two home games and own a season-best three-game winning streak…have started 2-0 at home for the first time since 2011. • Have overcome three-run deficits in two of their last three games (also Sun. at Baltimore). • Have won eight consecutive home series over the Rays, their longest such streak ever vs. Tampa Bay and their longest streak over any opponent at the current Yankee Stadium (breaks tie with Los Angeles-AL, 2011-16, and Detroit, 2009-15, both seven-series streaks). • Yankees batters have scored 8R in each of their last two games…marks the second straight season they have tallied back-to-back games with at least 8R in their first home series (also 4/6-7/16 vs. Houston)…have back-to-back games with at least 8R just one other time in that span (8/26-27/16 vs. Baltimore). • Have scored 28-of-41 runs this season in the fifth inning or later…sent eight men to the plate in both the fifth and sixth innings. • Struck out just once, their fewest in a game since 5/4/15 at Toronto (1K). • Came to the plate with the bases loaded five times in the fifth inning, matching their number of plate appearances with the bases loaded from their first seven games combined. • LHP Jordan Montgomery (4.2IP, 5H, 3R/2ER, 2BB, 7K, 1HR, 1HP) made his Major League debut and took a no-decision…struck out his first two Major League batters faced (Souza, Kiermaier)…joins Al Leiter (8K on 9/15/87 vs. Milwaukee) as the only two Yankees left-handers since 1913 to record at least 7K in his Major League debut. • Montgomery and C Kyle Higashioka became the first Yankees battery to each make their first Major League starts in the same game since RHP Jorge De Paula and C Michel Hernandez on 9/26/03 vs. Baltimore. • RF Aaron Judge (2-for-3, 2R, 1HR, 3RBI, 1BB) hit a two-run HR in the seventh inning…has homered in a career-best three consecutive games…is the third Yankees rookie in as many seasons to homer in at least three straight games (Greg Bird-3G in 2015; Sánchez-3G and 4G in 2016)…in 2016 and 2017, homered in both of his first two home games each season…also has a career-best three consecutive multi-hit games (had never had consecutive multi-hit games prior to this streak)…set a career high in RBI. • Judge’s HR hit the glass facing of the 1893 Club in center field (formerly Mohegan Sun), the second such HR of his career and fifth in the Stadium’s history…is the first player to hit it twice (Carlos Correa-1, Brandon Allen-1, Russell Branyan-1). • 3B Chase Headley (2-for-4, 2R) has 11 hits in 8G this season…in 2016, did not record his 11th hit until 5/4 (22nd game – .153, 11-for-72). • Has multiple hits in all five games against the Rays this season…matches the longest multi-hit streak by a Yankee vs. the Rays in franchise history (Hideki Matsui, Alfonso Soriano, Bernie Williams)…is hitting .431 (22-for-51) with 14R, 1 double, 4HR, 5RBI and 7BB over his last 15 games vs. the Rays (since 5/28/16). • 2B Starlin Castro (2-for-4, 1R) is batting .381 (8-for-21) during his five-game hitting streak…is tied with Headley for the team lead in hits (11). • PH Brett Gardner (0-for-1) left today’s game with a bruised jaw and a strained neck following a collision at first base with Weeks in the sixth inning…is day-to-day. • LHP Aroldis Chapman (0.2IP, 1K) converted his first save of the season. • RHP Bryan Mitchell (1.1IP) has not allowed a hit or walk in 3.1 scoreless innings this season…earned his second career win (also 9/7/16 vs. Toronto). • The Yankees successfully challenged and overturned a call at second base in the fifth inning…are 4-for-5 (80.0%) in replay challenges this season. -more- TAMPA BAY RAYS NOTES • The Rays dropped their second straight game, marking the first time this season Tampa Bay has lost back-to-back games…have lost eight consecutive series at Yankee Stadium, their longest such streak in the Bronx and the longest streak by any visitor at the current Yankee Stadium. • Rays batters have homered in 11 straight games at Yankee Stadium (since 4/23/16), the second-longest streak by a visitor at the venue…trails their own 13-game streak from 7/28/13-9/11/14. • LHP Blake Snell (4.2IP, 2H, 2R/0ER, 3BB, 1K) started and did not record a decision…has failed to toss at least 5.0IP in his last six road starts (since 8/10/16)…is 2-1 with a 2.38 ERA (22.2IP, 6ER) in five career starts vs. the Yankees. • 1B Rickie Weeks Jr. (1-for-3) hit a two-run home run in the first inning, marking his first home run of the season…since the beginning of 2014, 16 of his 20HR have come against left-handed pitching. • Left today’s game as a precaution with neck and right shoulder soreness following a collision at first base with PH Brett Gardner in the sixth inning. • RF Steven Souza Jr. (1-for-5) doubled in the fifth inning…has collected a hit in seven of his nine games this season…leads the club in hits (11) and is tied for the club lead in extra-base hits (five). • DH Corey Dickerson (1-for-4) hit an RBI double in the eighth inning…five of his 10H this season have gone for extra bases (3 doubles, 2HR). • RHP Jumbo Díaz (0.2IP, 3H, 3R/2ER, 1BB, 1WP) took his first loss of the season…prior to today’s game, had yielded only one base runner in 4.1IP. UPCOMING PROBABLE STARTING PITCHERS Date Opponent Probable Pitchers Time-ET TV Thurs., 4/13 vs. Tampa Bay RHP Luis Severino (0-0, 7.20) vs. RHP Matt Andriese (0-0, 9.00) 7:05 p.m. YES/MLBN Fri., 4/14 vs. St. Louis RHP Masahiro Tanaka (0-1, 11.74) vs. RHP Michael Wacha (1-0, 1.50) 7:05 p.m. YES/MLBN Sat., 4/15 vs. St. Louis LHP CC Sabathia (1-0, 1.64) vs. RHP Carlos Martinez (0-1, 3.65) 1:05 p.m. YES/MLBN Sun., 4/16 vs. St. Louis RHP Michael Pineda (1-1, 3.97) vs. RHP Adam Wainwright (0-2, 7.00) 8:05 p.m. ESPN On the Radio: All games carried by WFAN-AM 660/101.9FM and the Yankees Radio Network; Spanish on WADO 1280-AM and YES Network in SAP .