Baseball: Yankees' Masahiro Tanaka throws complete game shutout against Rays

Japanese right-hander Masahiro Tanaka threw a three-hitter for his first complete game shutout of the season as his New York Yankees beat the Tampa Bay Rays 4-0 on Tuesday.Tanaka (8-2) retired the first 12 batters before he allowed a leadoff single to C.J. Cron and walked Choi Ji Man to put runners on first and second in the fifth. But he struck out the next batter and got out of the jam by grounding Mallex Smith into a double play.He yielded two more hits -- a single in the sixth and a double in the seventh -- but otherwise kept the Rays' bats silent at Tropicana Field with nine strikeouts…READ FULL ARTICLE