Noah Pransky (Shadow of the Stadium) sums up my thoughts perfectly. That said, I’ve decided to repost his piece (below) in its entirety. You can read the piece with all the applicable hot-links over at the Shadow of the Stadium main site. I’d also add that the rumors of an impending deal to bring a …
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The Rays walked away from the Trop with another series win Sunday, after they came from behind to defeat the Giants by a score of 4-3. Tampa Bay is now 11-0-2 in the 13 series’ they’ve played since the middle of June. Since it’s a lazy day off, I’m going to do something a bit differently. The game summary will be broken down into the principal and peripheral. That is, the things that directly contributed to the win, and the others that formed the periphery.
“Today’s Rays-Giants game at Tropicana Field is SOLD OUT!” -Tampa Bay Rays (via Twitter) After averaging just north of 17,000 fans per game on the season, the Rays are averaging somewhere in the ballpark of 28,000 fans per game over the course of four games — today’s sellout included. Cough, all this against the D’Backs …
The Rays were able to take the second game of a three-game set against the Giants by a score of 2-1 in dramatic walk-off fashion, in front of an impressive crowd of 31,969 fans at the Trop, Saturday night. Wil Myers drove in the game winning RBI with the bases loaded in the the bottom of the tenth, his first career walk-off. And though I wish the Rays could have tagged The Freak for more than a run, it was pretty damn cool to see a classic pitching duel between two former Cy Young Award winners.
Most assumed that last night’s highly anticipated pitching match-up between Chris Archer and Madison Bumgarner would be a good one. At the end of the day though, only one pitcher would end his outing as the victor, while the other would walk away with a tally mark in the loss column. It just so happened that Bumgarner ultimately bested Archer and walked away knowing that he shut down one of the best teams in baseball.
