PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. — Bartolo Colon made another strong bid for a spot in the Yankees’ rotation, allowing one run over six innings in New York’s 3-1 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays on Monday night.
Colon is competing with Ivan Nova, Freddy Garcia and Sergio Mitre for two openings behind CC Sabathia, A.J. Burnett and Phil Hughes.
Colon gave up two hits and struck out five during his 64-pitch outing. In four exhibition starts, the burly right-hander has allowed four runs over 15 innings.
Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez went 0 for 2 with a walk. A-Rod had gotten a hit in each of his other 13 spring training games.