Rays 4/16/13 Starting Lineup: Jennings CF Johnson DH Zobrist 2B Longoria 3B Joyce LF Escobar SS Loney 1B Lobaton C Fuld RF Hernandez RHP Noteworthiness: -Another day, another lineup — the 12th in 13 games to be exact. Ben Zobrist and Evan Longoria are again hitting back-to-back, though they’re back in the 3-4 spots. Kelly …
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Tampa Bay heads to Baltimore for a three game set prior to a six game home stand. The Rays will attempt to salvage what has become a disappointing 3-7 stretch. A series preview (of sorts) follows.
Sunday was one of those days where it was very easy to get down on the Rays. With the hope that Tampa Bay could rectify things after a disappointing 2-1 loss to the Red Sox Saturday, Tampa Bay didn’t get a hit off a masterful Clay Buchholz until the eighth inning. And even though they …
Let’s sum up Saturday’s game as a series of bulleted observations: Price looked much better. Forget for a second that he walked two batters and allowed five base runners to reach with two outs in every inning except the fourth, Price posted a 6.0 IP/4 H/1 R/1 ER/2 BB/8 K/1 HR slash line on 106 …
The Tampa Bay Rays snap back into action Saturday, following the postponement of Friday evening’s game due to inclement weather. As we noted Friday, the Rays shuffled their starting rotation around because of the rainout. The pitching match-ups now look like this: Price vs. Lester on Saturday, Cobb vs. Buchholz on Sunday, and Hellickson vs Dempster …
