<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Austin Meadows and Randy Arozarena homered off Domingo Germán, helping the Tampa Bay Rays extend their mastery over the New York Yankees with a 4-0 victory on Saturday.</p>
<p>The Rays have won 10 of 12 regular-season games between the AL East rivals since the start of 2020. Tampa Bay also eliminated the Yankees from last year’s playoffs in a five-game series that went the distance.</p>
<p>Six Tampa Bay pitchers combined to limit the Yankees to five hits.</p>
<p>Meadows got things rolling for the Rays with a solo homer in the first inning, his third of the season. He had three hits in Tampa Bay’s 10-5 win over New York the previous day and has homered three times in eight career at-bats against Germán (0-2).</p>
<p>Arozarena, a rookie who keyed the Rays’ run to the World Series with a breakout postseason, hit a 420-foot solo shot in the third inning for a 4-0 lead. The ALCS MVP hit .377 with 10 homers and 14 RBIs in 20 postseason games last fall.</p>
<p>Andrew Kittredge (2-0) worked 1 2/3 innings to get the win. Rays starter Chris Archer exited with right lateral forearm tightness after allowing three hits and striking out four in 2 1/3 innings.</p>
<p>Archer left the game after yielding a one-out double to DJ LeMahieu with the Rays leading 3-0 in the third inning.</p>
<p>The two-time All-Star, making his first start at Tropicana Field since Tampa Bay traded him to Pittsburgh in July 2018, signed with the Rays as a free agent in February.</p>
<p>The right-hander missed the entire 2020 pandemic-shortened season after undergoing surgery to relieve symptoms of neurorgenic thoracic outlet syndrome.</p>
<p>Yankees slugger Aaron Judge returned to the lineup after missing two games due to soreness in his left side. He went 1 for 4 with two strikeouts. His fifth-inning single was New York’s final hit of the game.</p>
<p>Germán allowed four runs and eight hits in four innings, walking one and striking out five.</p>
<p>TRAINER’S ROOM</p>
<p>Yankees: 3B Gio Urshela was back in the lineup after sitting out the series opener due to side effects from a COVID vaccination shot taken Wednesday. “He was a little under the weather along with a couple other guys on our off day,” manager Aaron Boone said. “Everyone is good to go today. Everyone other than Gio was good to go yesterday.”</p>
<p>Rays: OF Manuel Margot (sore groin/quad) remained out of the lineup, but was available to pinch hit. Barring a setback, he’s expected to play Sunday. … The Rays said Archer will be evaluated further on Sunday.</p>
<p>UP NEXT</p>
<p>Lefty Jordan Montgomery (1-0, 0.00 ERA) starts the finale of the weekend series for the Yankees. He’s 1-2 with a 5.14 ERA in six career starts against Tampa Bay. The Rays anticipate right-hander Michael Wacha taking the ball first, with a definitive decision expected after Saturday’s game.</p>
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