Rays won’t let Yankees’ bean-ball spree go: ‘See where it goes from here’

Kevin Kiermaier said if the roles were reversed and it was Rays pitchers plunking the Yankees this past weekend series, there would’ve been “a lot more controversy.”

In the three games, Yankees pitchers hit the Rays four times. Joey Wendle was hit in the helmet while Austin Meadows took one on the shoulder. Mike Zunino absorbed a pitch in the opener, and Meadows was hit again, on the hand, on Sunday. “With the history and, I don’t know, it’s frustrating,” Kiermaier told Tampa Bay Times on Monday after the Rays took two of three from the Yankees. “It’s very frustrating. We’ll see where it goes from here. But I don’t think that was a very good look on their part, and we have every right to be very frustrated about what happened throughout the weekend.”