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- Updated: May 28, 2016
ST. PETERSBURG — Chris Archer spun to rip a pickoff throw to Logan Morrison and watched as the first baseman had to reach, unsuccessfully, across the body of Brett Gardner to try and catch it. The ball rolled toward the Rays’ bullpen in right field, and by that time, Gardner was at third base.
What started as a scoreless tie in the sixth led to three unearned runs for the Yankees on the back of three Rays defensive miscues — the difference in New York’s 4-1 win at Tropicana Field on Friday evening.
“If you give a team extra outs, it’s going to be costly,” Archer said. “Especially the way [Masahiro] Tanaka was throwing. The fact that their bullpen is lockdown, we can’t make those mistakes. We’ve been making them lately.”
After Archer’s poor throw, Taylor Motter botched a ball at second base. The run …
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