David Robertson (1-0) worked a perfect eighth before Mariano Rivera got his sixth save despite allowing Evan Longoria's leadoff homer.
After Roberts hit a solo homer on an 0-2 pitch from Sabathia, Evan Longoria singled and scored on Sean Rodriguez's triple.
Evan Longoria drew a leadoff walk and scored when second baseman Kinsler made a throwing error trying to complete a double play.
Over 60% of them, including Derek Jeter, Josh Hamilton, Evan Longoria and Buster Posey will be using Louisville Slugger products in 2013.
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Kelly Johnson walked and scored on Evan Longoria's double, and Loney followed with his sixth homer, a shot that drew boos from the doused fans hanging around.
Three innings later, a star rose to the top in the name of Evan Longoria and the Rays did what they had a less than one percent chance of doing.
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Waiting in the on-deck circle when Zobrist got his hit was Tampa Bay slugger Evan Longoria, who was 2 for 20, including two hitless at-bats earlier Wednesday, with 11 strikeouts against Pettitte.
Talented players like Josh Hamilton, Evan Longoria, Carl Crawford, Joey Votto, Joe Mauer and Adrian Gonzalez would all get some well deserved time on the national stage if this field holds up.
At least Evan Longoria and David Price of the Tampa Bay Rays were complaining because their fans were not coming out to root for them capture a division title, not for a .500 season.
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President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden join with Eli Manning, Jeremy Lin, Jimmy Rollins, Evan Longoria, David Beckham, Joe Torre and Andy Katz in this PSA to raise awareness about dating violence.
Working with consistently low payrolls, Friedman has found a formula that works: developing young pitching, filling the middle of the diamond with athletic players who can cover ground and catch the ball (any offesne is a bonus), and investing big money only in the franchise player (Evan Longoria).
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Despite arguably fielding the best team in the Majors this year, the Rays finished the season with 1.8 million in attendance, 22nd in baseball (the front office gave away 20, 000 tickets to a late season game after stars Evan Longoria and David Price called out fans for lack of support).
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