two milestones in his Test career: he had scored 1862 runs,

NEW YORK -- If only Evan Longoria got to play every game at Yankee Stadium.Longoria had an RBI double against Luis Severino in the first inning and a three-run double off Luis Cessa that capped a six-run fourth Sunday in the Tampa Bay Rays 12-3 rout of the New York Yankees.Longoria also singled in the seventh. His 74 hits and 47 RBI top visiting players at new Yankee Stadium, which opened in 2009, and his 15 home runs are tied with Bostons David Ortiz, trailing only Torontos Jose Bautista (17).Its just a place I feel comfortable hitting, he said. I dont know what it is, but I just like playing here.Jake Odorizzi (7-5) won a career-best fourth straight decision, helping the last-place Rays stop a three-game losing streak.Longorias bases-loaded double, which followed a walk to Kevin Kiermaier, was nearly snagged in the right-center gap by 6-foot-7 right fielder Aaron Judge, who in his second big league game tried for what would have been a spectacular, diving backhand catch.I thought if he left his feet he had a pretty good chance of catching it, Longoria said.Longoria finished the three-game series 7 for 11 with six RBI. His last four games of four RBI or more have all been against New York.I dont know if we got him out the whole series, Yankees manager Joe Girardi said.Longorias productive weekend left the three-time All-Star with a .289 batting average, 26 homers and 70 RBI.Its been a pretty solid year for me offensively, he said. I havent really had any prolonged stretches where I felt like my swing was way out of whack or I wasnt seeing the ball really well.Logan Forsythe hit a second-inning solo homer, and Corey Dickerson made it 5-1 with a three-run homer against Severino, ending an 0-for-17 slide.To me, thats the biggest at-bat of the game right there, Rays manager Kevin Cash said. Coreys been ... working really hard to kind of simplify some things. Its nice when you put the work in and you get some immediate results.Nick Franklin had three hits, including a three-run homer off Cessa in a four-run seventh. The Rays won for only the second time in their last seven.Odorizzi (7-5) allowed three runs and five hits in six innings with six strikeouts and one walk.I think Ive thrown quite a few more fastballs recently. For me I think thats where it all starts, said Odorizzi, who has cut down on his sliders. Once you establish youre going to attack the strike zone, you can get guys to expand off the plate.Judge, who homered in his first big league at-bat Saturday, hit an opposite-field home run in the third that went just over the right-field scoreboard.I think 29 others it stays in the park, but were not playing in 29 others, so hes a strong dude, Odorizzi said.Gary Sanchez hit his second big league home run, a two-run drive in the fourth. Other than the home runs, Odorizzi made few mistakes in the 95-degree heat.I asked him how he was doing, Cash said. He looked at me and told me hes from the Midwest, that heats not an issue for him. So well remember that next time it gets really hot.TRAINERS ROOMRays: INF Logan Morrison (right forearm strain) and OF Oswaldo Arcia (right elbow strain) will be evaluated by the Rays at Tropicana Field on Monday and could be activated during the series against San Diego. Morrison hit .231 (4 for 13) with a double during a four-game rehab assignment with Class A Charlotte and Arcia batted .294 (5 for 17) with a double, triple and four RBI in six games with the Stone Crabs.Yankees: 1B Mark Teixeira was out of the lineup for the second straight day. Girardi said Teixeira was banged up and could use consecutive days off. ... RHP Bryan Mitchell (left big toe), on the DL since spring training, allowed three runs and five hits in 2 1/3 innings for Class A Tampa at Daytona on Saturday night in his second rehab start.UP NEXTRays: LHP Drew Smyly (4-11) starts Mondays series opener against the Padres and RHP Luis Perdomo (5-6). Smyly is 2-0 with a 2.52 ERA in his last four starts after going 0-7 with a 7.60 ERA in his previous 10.Yankees: RHP Chad Green (1-2) will be recalled from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre to start Mondays series opener against Toronto and R.A. Dickey (8-12). 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On the fifth morning in St Lucia, India had to play street cricket in their charge towards a declaration, with West Indies spreading their field and a slow outfield keeping boundaries down but presenting opportunities for the stolen second or third run. With Rahane in the middle, India ran 11 twos and two threes in nine helter-skelter overs, adding 60 to their overnight total.When India declared, Rahane was batting on 78. He had scored his runs at a strike rate of 67.24 despite hitting only two fours and no sixes. Not for the first time in his career, he had simply reached for his gearshift and found the appropriate gear.In the first innings of the same Test, he had scored 35 off 133 balls, defending resolutely through a difficult session-and-a-half when India lost a heap of top-order wickets. He had seemed set for a big score when he was out to a rare error of judgment, seeking to sweep an offspinner bowling stump-to-stump.As every batsman tries to do, Rahane was simply playing the way the respective situations demanded. But with most batsmen, its easy to tell when they are playing out of character. Its not so straightforward with Rahane. He looked as much at home blunting West Indies bowlers in the first innings as he did milking them in the second. It was hard to say which innings was closer to his natural game. It has been hard to pinpoint his natural game right through his career.Its hardly a rigorous use of statistics, but the strike rates at which Rahane has scored his seven Test hundreds point to his versatility: he has made two hundreds at strike rates in the 40s, two in the 50s, and one each in the 60s, 70s and 80s. Add his 1103-ball 98 in Fatullah, and he has a near-hundred with a strike rate of 95 as well.ddddddddddddSuch versatility brings to mind Michael Hussey, who played a similar role for Australia in Test cricket. This is partly because, playing in an Indian team that has won most of its recent Tests, Rahane has had the opportunity to play both kinds of Hussey-style innings. He has had opportunities to drag his team out of tricky spots - as he did against South Africa in the first innings in Delhi, turning 139 for 6 into a total of 334 - as well as to set up declarations. The last six times India have declared in Test cricket, Rahane has been at the crease three times, and on one other occasion was dismissed 2.1 overs before Virat Kohli called his batsmen in.Quietly, through this period, Rahane has become the highest-averaging batsman in Indias Test squad. After the first three Tests of the series against South Africa, his average had slipped below 40. Then came the twin hundreds in Delhi, and now, a series of understated accomplishment in the West Indies. By the end of the St Lucia Test, he was on the cusp of two milestones in his Test career: he had scored 1862 runs, and his average stood at exactly 49.00.By a quirk of mathematics, 50 and 2000 could happen at the same time. It could happen in the fourth Test in Port-of-Spain, if he scores the remaining 138 runs there. If he is only out once, he will only need 88 to lift his average to 50, and if he isnt dismissed at all, 38 will do.Rahane doesnt need his average to affirm the quality he has proved across all conditions, and seeing it tick past 50 probably isnt his most urgent priority at this stage of his career. But if and when it happens, Indian cricket fans will cherish the moment.For most of the 2000s, Indias Test line-up contained three batsmen with 50-plus averages. By the time his career ended, Virender Sehwags had slipped to 49.43. And so, the 50-plus average club, with the qualification of 2000 runs, contains only three Indian batsmen. You know their names, and in case you dont, their initials will do: SMG, SRT, RSD. If and when he gets there, AMR will be in special company. ' ' '