ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Dean Anna got the final three outs of a miserable Yankees game Saturday night.
That's right, Dean Anna. Yes, the beating manager Joe Girardi's pitchers absorbed in a 16-1 loss to the Rays in front of 30,159 at Tropicana Field was so bad he moved the shortstop to the mound where the punishment continued.
By the time the embarrassment was over the Yankees' attention turned to Ivan Nova's right elbow. After getting spanked for eight runs and eight hits, four of which were homers, in four-plus innings Nova was removed from the game because of soreness in the hinge. He is scheduled to undergo tests to determine the cause and severity of the discomfort.
As one fly ball climbed toward the ugly, dirty white roof left fielder Brett Gardner turned his back to the plate, drifted toward the wall and then watched the white spheres with red lacing land in the seats.
If you were trying to hide Easter eggs on Yankees hurlers Saturday night taping them to Gardner's chest would have been the ideal location.
Five times Gardner arched his neck to track Rays homers and by the time he was done he had to be in need of ice to dull the soreness.
Since he was coming off a sharp 7 ¹/₃ outing against the Red Sox in a 3-2 win on April 13, Nova (2-2) was expected to be a lot better.
Ryan Hanigan and Wil Myers hit two homers and Hanigan, the No. 9 hitter, drove in six runs. Evan Longoria added a homer and four RBIs.
Longoria went 2-for-3, drove in four runs and is hitting .314 (104-for-335) in his career against the Yankees with 26 homers and 70 RBIs.
Rocked by the Orioles in his last start, Chris Archer did what he always does to the Yankees: dominate them with mid-90s fastballs.
In four starts against the Yankees, the right-handed Archer is 4-0.
After winning the first of four games, 10-2, the Yankees have been outscored 27-6 in the second and third games. Sunday they turn to neophyte Vidal Nuno hoping to get a split.
The ugliness wasn't contained to the pitching or hitting. Alfonso Soriano misplayed a fly ball in right field and Yangervis Solarte committed a throwing error.
Anna gave up two hits in the eighth to cap off the miserable evening.
Leading, 6-0, going into the home fifth Nova gave up a leadoff single to Ben Zobrist and a double to Matt Joyce to put runners at second and third for Longoria.
With the count, 1-1, on Longoria, Girardi and trainer Mark Littlefield went to the mound to check on Nova, who earlier in the inning was shaking his right arm after a pitch.
Nova left Matt Daley, recalled Saturday from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre to face Longoria and his fly to right plated Zobrist.
James Loney was intentionally walked and Myers continued the homer festival with a three-run blast to left — his second of the game and season — that upped the Rays' advantage to 10-1.
Hanigan's second homer of the game, third of the season and 23rd of his career, upped the Rays lead to 6-0 in the fourth. With Myers on second and two outs, Nova attempted to get a 3-2 fastball clocked at 93-mph by Hanigan and watched it climb toward the roof before splashing down in the left-field seats.
Myers, the 2013 AL Rookie of the Year, started the game hitting .228 without a homer and seven RBIs in 15 games and one of the main reasons the Rays were hitting .235 as a team.
However, with one out in the second, Myers jumped on a 78 mph curveball from Nova and drove it into the left-field seats for a 1-0 lead.
An inning later Hanigan swatted a two-seam fastball inside the left-field foul pole for his second homer and a 2-0 Rays lead.
The power show continued after Zobrist singled with one out and Longoria, who seemingly gets two hits in each at-bats against the Yankees, clobbered a first-pitch hanging curveball off a C-ring catwalk for a 4-0 cushion.
It was Longoria's 164th homer, which set a Rays franchise record.
Because Jacoby Ellsbury was caught trying to swipe second in the first inning after starting the game with a single to left-center, Archer faced the minimum nine batters across the first three frames.
Following Ellsbury's single Archer retired the next 11 Yankees, fanning three of them.
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