Tampa Bay 3, Seattle 2
When: 4:10 PM ET, Saturday, May 15, 2010
Where: Tropicana Field, St. Petersburg, Florida
Temperature:
Indoors
Umpires:
Home -
Lazaro Diaz, 1B -
John Hirschbeck, 2B -
James Hoye, 3B -
Wally Bell
Attendance:
23627
By SportsDirect Inc.
Willy Aybar hit a walk-off homer in the ninth, helping the Tampa Bay Rays to a 3-2 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Saturday.
Aybar capped the Rays’ rally by drilling the first pitch he saw from Jesus Colome (0-1) to right field for his fourth home run of the season.
Aybar’s blast made a winner out of Rafael Soriano (2-0), who threw a perfect ninth in relief of starter James Shields.
Mariners designated hitter Mike Sweeney homered for the third straight day and Ichiro Suzuki had a pair of hits, marking a career-best seven straight multi-hit games.
But Seattle’s bullpen wasted another solid start by Jason Vargas, as the Rays rallied from a 2-0 deficit in the eighth. B.J. Upton led off with an infield single and then stole second.
Dioner Navarro followed with a single and pinch-hitter Reid Brignac drilled an RBI single off Brandon League to center to cut the lead to 2-1. After a sacrifice and an intentional walk to Carl Crawford, Ben Zobrist tied the game at 2-2 with a sacrifice fly off Sean White.
The Rays’ rally ruined a stellar performance by Vargas, who retired the first 12 hitters he faced and allowed two runs and four hits in seven-plus innings. He struck out two and walked two.
Shields matched Vargas pitch-for-pitch, allowing just two runs and six hits in eight innings with 10 strikeouts. He did not walk a batter.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
| Seattle |
|
Tampa Bay |
|
Jason Vargas
|
Player |
James Shields
|
|
No Decision |
W/L |
No Decision |
|
7.0 |
IP |
8.0 |
|
2 |
Strikeouts |
10 |
|
4 |
Hits |
6 |
|
2.57 |
ERA |
2.25 |
Hitting
| Seattle |
|
Tampa Bay |
|
Mike Sweeney | Player |
Reid Brignac
|
|
2 |
Hits |
1 |
|
1 |
RBI |
1 |
|
1 |
HR |
0 |
|
5 |
TB |
1 |
|
.500 |
Avg |
1.000 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| Seattle
|
6 |
1 |
10 |
.188 |
12 |
10 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
| Tampa Bay
|
6 |
1 |
9 |
.222 |
8 |
2 |
3 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
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