Tanaka tosses 7 shutout innings in Yankees' rout of Rays

St. Petersburg, FL - The New York Yankees scored nine runs for Masahiro Tanaka on Saturday against the Tampa Bay Rays.

He needed only one.

Tanaka had eight strikeouts and allowed just two baserunners in seven innings and Chris Young hit a grand slam to lead New York to a 9-0 win over Tampa Bay.

Young's grand slam highlighted a seven-run seventh inning and came after Brian McCann stroked a two-run triple in the sixth for one of his three hits.

The Yankees banged out 10 hits, none of them from Alex Rodriguez, who struck out three times but also walked twice and scored two runs a day after hitting two home runs and the go-ahead single in New York's 5-4 win on Friday.

Tanaka (2-1) carved his way through the Tampa Bay lineup, retiring 15 batters in a row between David DeJesus' leadoff single in the first inning and Brandon Guyer's double to start the sixth.

It was a bounce-back outing of sorts for the 26-year-old right-hander, who gave up nine runs, nine hits and five walks over nine innings in his first two starts of the season.

David Carpenter threw a 1-2-3 eighth inning for the Yankees and Branden Pinder escaped a bases loaded jam in the ninth to preserve the shutout.