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)

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A former Polish justice minister who faces prosecution in his homeland over alleged abuse of power said Monday that he has been granted asylum in Hungary.

Zbigniew Ziobro was a key figure in the government led by the nationalist conservative Law and Justice party that ran Poland between 2015 and 2023. That administration established political control over key judicial institutions by stacking higher courts with friendly judges and punishing its critics with disciplinary action or assignments to far-away locations.

Current Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s government came to power more than two years ago with ambitions to roll back the changes, but efforts to undo them have been blocked by two successive presidents aligned with the national right.

In October, prosecutors requested the lifting of Ziobro's parliamentary immunity to press charges against him. They allege among other things that Ziobro misused a fund for victims of violence, including for the purchase of Israeli Pegasus surveillance software.

Tusk’s party says Law and Justice used Pegasus to spy illegally on political opponents while in power. Ziobro says he acted lawfully.

Hungary, led by nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, has hosted several politicians close to Law and Justice while Polish authorities were seeking them.

In a lengthy post on X Monday, Ziobro wrote that he had “decided to accept the asylum granted to me by the government of Hungary due to the political persecution in Poland.”

“I have decided to remain abroad until genuine guarantees of the rule of law are restored in Poland,” he said. “I believe that instead of acquiescing to being silenced and subjected to a torrent of lies — which I would have no opportunity to refute — I can do more by fighting the mounting lawlessness in Poland.”

Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said in Budapest on Monday that Hungarian authorities have granted asylum to “several” individuals who would face political persecution in Poland, according to his ministry. He declined to specify their names.

In an English-language post on X, Tusk wrote that “the former Minister of Justice(!), Mr. Ziobro, who was the mastermind of the political corruption system, has asked the government of Victor Orbán for political asylum.”

“A logical choice,” he added.

FILE - The leader of the Polish junior coalition partners Zbigniew Ziobro, speaks to reporters alongside in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, file)