Gray didn't factor into the decision against Tampa Bay in the first game of a doubleheader Saturday but recorded 10 strikeouts and allowed five runs (two earned) on nine hits and a walk over six innings.
Gray racked up a whopping 22 swings and misses over the 70 pitches he threw for strikes, posting his second-highest strikeout total of the season in the process. The 27-year-old now has back-to-back quality starts after having surrendered seven earned runs on nine hits over 4.2 innings against the Indians on May 30. That outing represents the right-hander's one true stumble this season, as he yielded no more than four earned runs in any of his other seven trips to the mound. Gray will have a challenge on his hands when he takes on the explosive Yankees offense in his next start at home Friday.