 allowed one run and five hits in 5 1/3 innings as Arizona won for the seventh time in nine games. The 30-year-old rookie right-hander won consecutive big league starts for the first time.He escaped a bases-loaded jam in the fifth when Brett Gardner hit an inning-ending groundout, then gave up Luke Voit's ninth homer leading off the sixth that cut Arizona's lead to 3-1. Voit has reached base in 41 consecutive games, the longest for the Yankees since Mark Teixeira in 2010.Gleyber Torres doubled with one out, and Yoshihisa Hirano relieved and threw a called third strike past Mike Tauchman and then retired Gio Urshela on a popout. Urshela started for the first time since he was hit by a pitch on the left hand Sunday.Tauchman hit an RBI single in the eighth off Archie Bradley, who got Urshela to hit into an inning-ending forceout. Greg Holland pitched around Cameron Maybin's one-out walk in the ninth to remain perfect in seven save chances.Masahiro Tanaka (2-3) allowed three runs and five hits in four innings, which matched his season low. He threw more splitters and got 11 swings and misses among 74 pitches, up from one swing and miss in his previous start, a loss to the Los Angeles Angels.Arizona took a 2-0 lead in the second when Christian Walker singled, Marte doubled into the left-field corner, Nick Ahmed blooped an RBI single and Tanaka threw a run-scoring wild pitch.Marte led off the fourth with his seventh homer, a drive above the pool deck in right field.FIRST PITCHBob Brenly, who managed the Diamondbacks to their World Series title in 2001 in seven games over the Yankees, threw Wednesday's ceremonial first pitch. Brenly is now a commentator on Diamondbacks' TV broadcasts.TOSSEDYankees manager Aaron Boone was ejected by plate umpire Paul Emmel, his second ejection of the season. Boone was angered when he challenged whether Ahmed remained on second base on a force play was denied in a fifth-inning video review. He didn't have a challenge available in the seventh when he thought Tyler Wade was hit by a pitch. Boone has been ejected twice this season and six times as Yankees manager.TRAINER'S ROOMYankees: SS Troy Tulowitzki singled in the first inning for Class A Tampa, then was removed for a pinch runner. Tulowitzki was hit on a leg by a pitch Tuesday night. ... INF DJ LeMahieu missed the series with knee inflammation. He fouled a pitch off a knee Friday at San Francisco, then left Sunday's game against the Giants in the third inning. ... OF Clint Frazier (left ankle sprain) did some pregame work in the outfield and can be activated from the IL this week. ... OF Aaron Hicks (back) was the DH in an extended spring training intrasquad game. He singled in three at-bats and walked twice, and is to play five innings in center field on Thursday.UP NEXTYankees: LHP James Paxton (3-2) starts Friday night's homestand opener against Minnesota and will be pitching on six days' rest.Diamondbacks: LHP Robbie Ray (1-1, 4.18 ERA) is scheduled to start Friday at Colorado.---More MLB: https://apnews.com/MLB and https://twitter.com/-Sports)
Yanks' Tanaka, D-backs' Kelly get first looks at opponent A day after CC Sabathia became the 17th member of the 3,000-strikeout club in his first career appearance in Arizona, Masahiro Tanaka will make it 2-for-2 in New York Yankees debuts in Phoenix on Wednesday.Tanaka (2-2, 3.60 ERA) will attempt to close out the Yankees' successful nine-game trip when he faces Diamondbacks right-hander Merrill Kelly (2-2, 3.94 ERA) in the finale of a two-game series.The Yankees are 6-2 on their road trip after stops to play the Los Angeles Angels and San Francisco Giants, although their three-game winning streak was stopped when Zack Greinke outdueled Sabathia in the Diamondbacks' 3-1 victory on Tuesday."Obviously frustrated we lost, but tonight is about us celebrating the man and what's been an amazing career," Yankees manager Aaron Boone said after Sabathia's outing.The Yankees have won nine of their past 11 despite playing through an extensive injured list that includes Luis Severino, Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton and Miguel Andujar. DJ LeMahieu (knee) missed Tuesday but could return Wednesday."We feel pretty good about it," Boone said of LeMahieu, who was removed from the Sunday game in San Francisco due to right knee inflammation before an MRI exam came back negative. "He's improved each and every day. We feel good it's just a couple-of-days kind of thing." The Yankees have 13 players on the injured list, have used 34 players and are still on pace to win 95 games.They had scored at least five runs in six consecutive games and at least four in 10 straight before getting only five hits off Greinke and the Arizona bullpen."(Greinke) kept a very quality offensive team in check," Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo said. "We know that they are very dangerous. They are hard to read and hard to gauge and hard to game plan with some of the new names in that lineup." Eduardo Escobar had two doubles and a single, and Wilmer Flores homered and hit an RBI single for Arizona, which has won 11 of 15. Escobar has 15 hits in his past 29 at-bats (.517).Tanaka has lost two of his past three starts while giving up 12 runs (11 earned) and 26 base runners in 16 2/3 innings. He allowed one earned run four times in his six starts and five earned runs in the other two.Kelly, a rookie, was pushed back a day to enable Greinke to start the first game of the series after the Diamondbacks went through all seven of their relievers in a 6-5, 15-inning loss to the Chicago Cubs on Sunday. Kelly played catch in the bullpen in the 15th inning but was not needed.Kelly has made three quality starts, including his latest outing at Pittsburgh on April 24, when he gave up two runs in seven innings during an 11-2 victory. He is 0-1 in two home starts, the loss coming when he allowed one run in a season-best eight innings during a 1-0 loss to the Boston Red Sox on April 7.He will be opposing the Yankees for the first time in his brief career.The Diamondbacks removed right-hander Zack Godley from the rotation Tuesday, Lovullo said, although the replacement and the date of that start had not been determined. Minor-leaguer Taylor Clarke and bullpen pieces Matt Andriese and T. J. McFarland are candidates to replace Godley, who is out of options and will work out of the bullpen.Right-hander Jon Duplantier is a long-term candidate for a rotation spot, but after pitching Sunday getting optioned to the minors Monday, he is not eligible to be recalled until May 9. The Diamondbacks will need a fifth starter by May 7 at the latest.--Field Level Media
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