Long Islanders Steven Matz, Anthony Kay don't factor into decision in Rays' win over White Sox
Rays pitcher Steven Matz and White Sox pitcher Anthony Kay, former Ward Melville baseball stars, opposed one another on Thursday in Chicago. Credit: Getty Images/Michael Reaves
CHICAGO — Neither Anthony Kay nor Steven Matz factored into the decision in the Rays' come-from-behind 5-3 win over the White Sox Thursday. The two former Ward Melville High School stars were on opposite sides in a game that was set to be livestreamed into the East Setauket's school's gymnasium, according to Patriots baseball coach Lou Petrucci.
Matz started for Tampa and allowed two runs and six hits in 5 1/3 innings. He struck out four and walked one. Kay entered as with one out in the second inning and allowed one run and four hits in 2 2/3 innings. He struck out one and walked one.
Junior Caminero homered and the Rays scored twice on bases-loaded walks in the ninth inning, rallying from a 3-2 deficit. The Rays (11-7) trailed by one run three times and extended their winning streak to six games.
Seranthony Dominguez entered for Chicago with a one-run lead in the ninth after Everson Pereira homered in the eighth inning, his second long ball in seven at-bats since returning from a sprained ankle. But Dominguez exited to boos with the bases loaded and one out after allowing Caminero's leadoff home run, a single, a walk, a hit batter and a wild pitch. Lucas Sims struck out Jake Fraley before walking Hunter Feduccia and Taylor Walls.
The White Sox have lost six straight home games after starting 3-0.
The White Sox won three ABS challenges in the third with Matz on the mound, two on strikes that were called balls against Rays hitters, and then overturning home plate umpire Austin Jones' called strike three against Miguel Vargas. Vargas hit the next pitch to left for his second home run of the season, ending an 0-for-19 skid.
Walls got the Rays on the board by singling home Johnny DeLuca in the fourth off Kay.
Edgar Quero, the first hitter Tampa Bay reliever Griffin Jax faced after Matz exited with one out in the sixth, put the Sox ahead with a double to left before Jax was able to escape a bases-loaded jam to exit the inning. Tampa's Richie Palacios hit an RBI single in the seventh to force a tie.
Newsday's Gregg Sarra contributed to this report
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