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NEW YORK -- Rookie Tyler Austin hit a solo homer in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the New York Yankees their season-high fifth straight victory, 5-4 over the Tampa Bay Rays on Thursday night.Brian McCann hit two homers for the Yankees, who moved a season-high nine games over .500 (74-65).Austin homered off Erasmo Ramirez (7-11) on a 3-2 pitch for his third homer since being called up Aug. 13. Teammates met him at home plate by dousing him with water in a raucous celebration.After blowing three leads during the first six innings, New York moved within two games of Baltimore for the second AL wild card and four games of AL East-leading Boston. Resurgent New York plays 20 of its remaining 23 games against division opponents, putting it in position to compete despite selling off key pieces at the Aug. 1 deadline.Tommy Layne (2-1) entered and struck out pinch-hitter Logan Morrison to end the ninth.The pesky Rays kept erasing leads, getting two homers each from Kevin Kiermaier and Steven Souza by the sixth. This was the first game this season in which three players had multiple homers, per the Elias Sports Bureau.New York had to use five relievers on a night when its bullpen was already short-handed. Manager Joe Girardi said before the game he hoped to avoid using Dellin Betances, Tyler Clippard, Adam Warren and Luis Severino, so he had to dig deep in the bullpen when CC Sabathia went just four innings, allowing three homers while throwing 87 pitches.McCanns first homer led off the second inning and landed in the luxury suites just below the third deck in right field. His second put the Yankees up 4-3 in the fourth, giving him 19 for the season. He ripped a hard single to center in the sixth.McCann entered on a 3-for-20 slide and had hit just .232 with two homers since Aug. 1 -- one of those homers came Tuesday against Toronto. The left-handed slugger is one shy of his ninth straight 20-homer season and 10th overall.Kiermaier homered twice in the first three innings, setting a career high with his 11th homer in the third. Hes hit safely in a career-best 12 straight games, the longest streak by a Ray this season.The Yankees went ahead 2-1 in the first when Alex Cobbs pickoff attempt to first hit Didi Gregorius as he dived back safely. The ball skidded away from first baseman Brad Miller, allowing Jacoby Ellsbury to score from third.Souza had his third multihomer game of the season, and second at Yankee Stadium. After hitting a solo homer to right-center in the second, he crushed a ball 430 feet off the glass sports bar beyond center field in the sixth.Souza had been in a 5-for-40 slump without a home run.Cobb made his second start since having Tommy John surgery in 2015. He allowed four runs -- three earned -- over six innings. He gave up two homers and threw 89 pitches.The Rays trailed three times during a 7-6 win over Baltimore on Wednesday.The paid attendance was 27,631, under 30,000 for just the second time at Yankee Stadium -- the first was 27,532 on Tuesday. That was the first time under 30,000 since 2004.TRAINING ROOMRays: SS Matt Duffy will have surgery Friday on his left heel. Dr. Bob Anderson, team orthopedist for the NFLs Carolina Panthers, will perform the operation. ... RHP Chase Whitley is expected to return following Tommy John surgery in one of the next three games. Whitley pitched for the Yankees in 2014 and `15 but was placed on waivers and claimed by Tampa Bay last November while recovering from the surgery.UP NEXTRays: Rookie LHP Blake Snell (5-7, 3.39) starts vs. New York on Friday night. He struck out seven over six innings of one-run ball in a win against Toronto last time out and has a 2.61 ERA in two starts against New York this season.Yankees: RHP Michael Pineda (6-11, 5.10) pitches against Tampa Bay. Pineda is 0-1 with a 7.04 ERA over his past three starts. Discount Nike Tanjun .C. -- Kemba Walker and the Charlotte Bobcats got off to a fast start, and the Sacramento Kings were never quite able to catch up. Grey Nike Tanjun . The Masters champion and winner of last weeks Australian PGA has a three-round total of 14-under 199 at Royal Melbourne. "Im in a really good position for tomorrow," Scott said. http://www.cheapniketanjun.com/ . Clarke was injured while practicing on the Doha Golf Club range after the pro-am on Tuesday. 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Vexed Melbourne Victory coach Kevin Muscat believes referee Chris Beath simply made a mistake in missing David Carneys handball goal, which has sparked renewed calls for a fifth official in the A-League.Carney scored a second-half brace off the bench to drive Sydney FC to a 2-1 win over Victory, but his equaliser was marred by controversy.Replays showed the ball had struck the former Socceroos arm as he brought it down for a left-footed finish.Carney himself conceded he didnt need to see the replay to know what had happened but felt Beaths view may have been obstructed by leaping Victory defender Stefan Nigro.Because he (Nigro) just missed a header I was very close to him, so I think it would have been hard for the ref, Carney said.It was even hard for me - I thought he was going to head it away but he didnt ... I just reacted.The incident riled the visiting camp and prompted Twitter users to suggest Carney had safer hands than Adam Gilchrist behind the stumps and the Sydney Swans might come calling for his marking skills.Muscat, perhaps mindful of having been fined $5000 less than a fortnight ago over his FFA Cup referee spray, was initially unwilling to elaborate on the incident.But he eventually admitted it was hard to take because the goal changed the complexion of the game.Those incidents cant go unnoticed, but they did, Muscat said.Id love to get into a conversation, but maybe get Chris here to explain his decisiion because they seem to be doing that now.ddddddddddddWithout doubt if there was someone with a camera that gets brought back, because they only would have been deliberating whether it was one or two hands.I certainly dont understand.The linesmen can help out as well, theyve got to have some more power to make decisions.Ive already watched the replay, Chris is not obstructed in my view.Hes obviously missed it. We all make mistakes.Beath himself told Fox Sports that, from his view at the time, Carney did not appear to move his arm towards the ball.The incident prompted former Socceroo and Fox Sports pundit Mark Bosnich to reiterate his calls for a fifth official.That first goal should never have stood, Bosnich said.I know I say it all the time, if there was a fifth official behind the goal, he sees that.It comes a week after Central Coast chief executive Shaun Mielekamp called for a fifth and sixth official after match officials missed an obvious handball that should have given the Mariners a possible match-winning penalty late in their 1-1 draw with Western Sydney.Football Federation Australia used them in last seasons final series.FFA have also flagged the possibility of introducing video replays for contentious calls in the finals series, pending the success of trials and FIFAs approval. ' ' '