Cobb fell short in his bid for history on Thursday, but his overall dominance against the Yankees continued.
Rays right-hander Alex Cobb lost his bid for a no-hitter against the Yankees on Thursday on a one-out double off the bat of Chris Young in the eighth inning.
Cobb got Stephen Drew to pop out to begin the frame before Young lined a first-pitch offspeed offering into the right-center field gap. Rays manager Joe Maddon opted to go to his bullpen at that point, with Cobb having thrown 101 pitches.
Young scored on a home run by Martin Prado to cut the Rays' lead to 4-2, then hit a walk-off three-run home run in the ninth to give New York a 5-4 win.
The hit by Young kept the Yankees' long streak of avoiding being no-hit by a single pitcher at home alive. The Astros used six pitchers to accomplish the feat in 2003, but the last time one pitcher no-hit the Yanks in The Bronx was on Aug. 25, 1952, when Virgil Trucks of the Tigers held Mickey Mantle and company hitless in a 1-0 win.
Still, Cobb finished with yet another solid outing against the Yankees. The 26-year-old native of Boston was charged with one run after Brad Boxberger surrendered a home run to Martin Prado, but Cobb gave up just the one hit on two walks and struck out four. His success when facing New York is nothing new; Cobb now has a 1.67 ERA with 48 strikeouts and 15 walks in 64 frames in his career against the Yankees.