ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — If only Masahiro Tanaka could cover the plate as well as raging Joe Girardi.
Three times during Girardi’s pregame press conference at Tropicana Field, a loud alarm went off signaling the dugout phones.
Alarms really sounded shortly into the game.
Tanaka once again was crushed by an opposing team. Tanaka couldn’t make it through the second inning his last time out, and on Saturday, he couldn’t get an out in the fourth inning as the Yankees were clubbed, 9-5, by the Rays at Tropicana Field in the wildest of games that included plunkings and ejections.