The New York Yankees Look To Get Back on the Winning Track Against the Tampa Bay Rays

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The New York Yankees Look To Get Back on the Winning Track Against the Tampa Bay Rays

The New York Yankees are officially in a slump. The Bronx bombers lost three straight to the Boston Red Sox over the weekend and now have to face one of the best pitchers in baseball.

David Price attempts to keep the Rays from another home losing streak while the Yankees are looking to avoid their longest slide in over four years when the division foes meet Monday night.Ta mpa Bay (23-17) is atop the division by two games on New York (20-18), and a two-game set would appear to give them a chance to widen that gap. The Rays, however, feel otherwise.

The Rays are already having letdowns with a 10-12 home record after losing the last two of a three-game weekend series with Baltimore, falling 9-3 Sunday. They’ve failed to score more than five runs in any of their 22 home games, becoming the first team with that dubious distinction since the Brooklyn Superbas in the first 26 games of 1908.

Price (5-3, 3.12 ERA) will try to help Tampa Bay avoid a third straight loss at home, where he’s 2-2 with a 2.89 ERA, striking out 30 in 28 innings over four starts. The left-hander allowed no earned runs in both victories.

He was terrific again Wednesday, yielding two runs while fanning seven in eight innings of an 8-2 win at Cleveland.

He’s 3-1 with a 3.38 ERA in eight games against the Yankees, going 2-0 with a 1.59 ERA in three at Tropicana Field with each resulting in Tampa Bay victories.

Price and the Rays may also benefit from facing a struggling Yankees team that was swept by Boston in a three-game weekend series at home, losing 7-5 Sunday. New York has lost five straight and nine of 12.

Another loss would give New York its longest skid since a seven-game slide April 20-27, 2007.

The Yankees hope A.J. Burnett (4-2, 3.38) can continue his road dominance of the Rays. The right-hander is 6-2 with a 1.64 ERA over his last nine starts at Tropicana Field, winning four in a row.

Burnett was erratic Wednesday, allowing a solo homer while walking five, hitting a batter and striking out six in seven innings of a 4-3, 11-inning loss to Kansas City.

The Yankees will be in a tough spot against the Rays as the losing streak continues.

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