The Yankees had another night to forget, falling to the Tampa Bay Rays 9-0 on Friday night.

Here are some key takeaways…

- In the top of the third inning, with two men on and one out, Andrew Benintendi swung at a fastball up and in from Jeffrey Springs, and even though he didn’t make contact, Benintendi immediately began shaking his right hand. Benintendi walked straight into the dugout, and was replaced by Oswaldo Cabrera.

The team later announced that he left with a right wrist injury, with x-rays coming back negative.

- After both teams traded zeros over the first three innings, the Rays finally took the lead thanks to some shaky Yankees defense. With a runner on first, Josh Donaldson committed errors on back-to-back plays, the second of which nearly scored a run, but Cabrera was there to save the day, throwing out Harold Ramirez at the plate. But Randy Arozarena advanced all the way to third, and he came in to score the game’s first run on a David Peralta single.

- Domingo German didn’t pitch poorly, but he also got no run support. The right-hander went 6.2 innings, allowing three runs (two earned) on six hits with one strikeout and two walks. He held the Rays to one run through the first six innings but allowed a two-run homer to Christian Bethancourt in the seventh.

And that 3-0 lead seemed insurmountable for this currently anemic Yankees offense.

- The Rays poured it on in the eighth inning, as a Greg Weissert error allowed the pair of runs to score, making it a 5-0 game. Weissert had another rough go of things, allowing three earned runs on three hits while recording three outs. Lefty Anthony Banda came on to relieve Weissert, and things went from bad to worse as he walked three hitters and hit another, allowing three runs of his own to score without recording an out.

By the end of the inning, the Yankees were down 9-0 and Marwin Gonzalez was needed to get the final out on the mound.

- Oswald Peraza was used as a pinch-hitter in the ninth, and he went down swinging in his first major league at-bat.

-The Rays are now just 5.0 games behind the Yankees in the AL East standings.

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