Ben Rice has 1st 4-hit game, Yankees beat Rays 6-3 as visitors at Steinbrenner Field

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Ben Rice had his first big league four-hit game and drove in two runs, Oswaldo Cabrera hit a solo homer and New York rallied to beat the Tampa Bay Rays 6-3 on Thursday night in the Yankees' first game as a visitor at their spring training home.

Junior Caminero hit a two-run homer for the displaced Rays, who are playing this season at Steinbrenner Field because Hurricane Milton tore off the roof panels at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg on Oct 9.

Many fans in Tampa made it seem like the Bronx south. They chanted “Let’s go Yankees!” and cheered loudly for New York while the hometown fans in the crowd of 10,046 answered “Let’s go Rays!” at times.

Aaron Judge had an RBI single in the first on a 1-for-4 night that lowered his batting average to .400.

New York broke a 3-3 tie in the sixth when Jasson Domínguez grounded into a run-scoring forceout against Taj Bradley (2-1) and Rice followed with a two-run single off Manuel Rodríguez.

Tim Hill (2-0) pitched two scoreless innings,Ian Hamilton struck out three in 1 2/3 innings and Devin Williams finished for his fourth save.

Caminero gave the Rays a 3-1 lead in the third on his fifth homer this season, launching an opposite-field, two-run shot to right off former Rays pitcher Ryan Yarbrough.

Cabrera led off the fifth with his first homer of the season and Cody Bellinger hit into a run-scoring forceout.

Bradley gave up six runs and nine hits in 5 1/3 innings.

Yankees starter Will Warren lasted just 1 2/3 innings and left with the bases loaded in the second after throwing 53 pitches.

Judge threw out Kameron Misner trying to advance from first to third on Brandon Lowe’s single to right field in the first inning.

Jazz Chisholm Jr. was ejected in the seventh by plate umpire John Bacon for arguing after a called third strike on a full-count pitch that appeared low, his fifth career ejection and first with the Yankees.

Yankees LHP Carlos Rodón (1-3, 5.48 ERA) faces Rays RHP Drew Rasmussen (1-0, 0.60) on Friday. Rodon has a 4.62 ERA in eight starts vs. Tampa Bay.

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New York Yankees pitcher Will Warren delivers to the Tampa Bay Rays during the first inning of a baseball game Thursday, April 17, 2025, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

Tampa Bay Rays' Taj Bradley pitches to the New York Yankees during the second inning of a baseball game Thursday, April 17, 2025, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

New York Yankees' Will Warren pitches to the Tampa Bay Rays during the second inning of a baseball game Thursday, April 17, 2025, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

Tampa Bay Rays' Richie Palacios connects for a double off New York Yankees pitcher Will Warren during the second inning of a baseball game Thursday, April 17, 2025, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

New York Yankees' Oswaldo Cabrera celebrates his solo home run off Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Taj Bradley during the fifth inning of a baseball game Thursday, April 17, 2025, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

New York Yankees pitcher Ryan Yarbrough delivers to the Tampa Bay Rays during the fourth inning of a baseball game Thursday, April 17, 2025, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

New York Yankees pitcher Will Warren, second from right, hands the ball to manager Aaron Boone as he is taken out of the game against the Tampa Bay Rays during the second inning of a baseball game Thursday, April 17, 2025, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

Tampa Bay Rays' Richie Palacios scores in front of New York Yankees catcher J.C. Escarra on a sacrifice fly by Taylor Walls during the second inning of a baseball game Thursday, April 17, 2025, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

New York Yankees infielder Oswald Peraza (18) and outfielder Aaron Judge celebrate after the team defeated the Tampa Bay Rays during a baseball game Thursday, April 17, 2025, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

New York Yankees pitcher Devin Williams, right, celebrates with catcher J.C. Escarra after closing out the Tampa Bay Rays during the ninth inning of a baseball game Thursday, April 17, 2025, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

New York Yankees' Aaron Judge runs onto the field before a baseball game against the Tampa Bay Rays at George M. Steinbrenner Field Thursday, April 17, 2025, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Preparations for the conclave to find a new pope accelerated Friday with the installation of the chimney out of the Sistine Chapel that will signal the election of a successor to Pope Francis.

Vatican firefighters were seen on the roof of the Sistine Chapel installing the chimney, a key moment in the preparation for the May 7 conclave.

After every two rounds of voting in the Sistine Chapel, the ballots of the cardinals are burned in a special furnace to indicate the outcome to the outside world.

If no pope is chosen, the ballots are mixed with cartridges containing potassium perchlorate, anthracene (a component of coal tar) and sulfur to produce black smoke. But if there is a winner, the burning ballots are mixed with potassium chlorate, lactose and chloroform resin to produce the white smoke.

The white smoke came out of the chimney on the fifth ballot on March 13, 2013, and Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was introduced to the world as Pope Francis a short time later from the loggia of St. Peter's Basilica.

The chimney installation took place as cardinals arrived in the Vatican for another day of pre-conclave discussions about the needs of the Catholic Church going forward and the type of pope needed to run it.

These consultations include all cardinals, including those over age 80 who are ineligible to vote in the conclave itself.

In recent days, they have heard reports about the Vatican’s dire financial situation, and have had the chance to speak individually about priorities going forward and problems they identified in Francis' pontificate.

FILE - Visitors admire the Sistine Chapel inside the Vatican Museums on the occasion of the museum's reopening, in Rome, May 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, file)