ST. PETERSBURG, Florida – Chase Utley homered and drove in four runs Tuesday to help Philadelphia rout Tampa Bay, 10-1, in the first regular-season meeting between the teams since last year’s World Series.
Utley had a two-run double in the first inning and added his 16th homer in the fourth, a two-run shot off David Price (1-2) that made it 10-0.
Jamie Moyer (5-6) pitched six innings and John Mayberry, filling in for the injured Raul Ibanez, hit a three-run homer for the Phillies, who defeated the Rays in the World Series in five games.
Tampa Bay, which managed five hits off the 46-year-old Moyer and eight overall, scored on Jason Bartlett’s fourth-inning single that extended the shortstop’s career-best hitting streak to 17 games – one shy of the franchise record.
At Atlanta, rookie Tommy Hanson won his third straight start and Brian McCann had two RBIs including a solo homer as Atlanta threw consecutive shutouts for the first time in four years, beating the New York Yankees.
New York managed just four hits and left 12 runners on base as Wang Chien-ming (0-6) lost his sixth straight start.
In the Yankees’ first visit to Turner Field since 2000, Atlanta’s pitching staff combined for its first consecutive shutouts since June 21-22, 2005, when it beat Florida by a combined 13-0 score.
The Yankees have lost three straight and four of six. (AP)