The Tampa Bay Rays make their way into Boston for a four game wrap-around series against the Red Sox, following a series salvaging 2-0, five hit, shutout of the Texas Rangers Wednesday, in Arlington. Matt Moore did not have the most sparkling of outings, posting a 5.1 IP/1 H/0 R/0 ER/6 BB/5 K slash line …
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Rays Drop Another, Look to Right the Ship
There isn’t much that can be said following Tuesday night’s disappointing loss to the Rangers. Too bad there wasn’t a controversial call to blame the it on. I guess we’ll just have to go back to the old standard of blaming things on an anemic offense that couldn’t, again, get the job done. From a …
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Jeff Niemann: Out For the Season
Bare with me for a moment. I fell for conspiracy theory after conspiracy theory when I was younger. I believed that the Freemasons ran the world, that George Bush meant one world order when he mentioned “new world order” in a speech, that the government obviously controlled the weather, so on and so forth. Not taking …
Looking Backward While Moving Forward: The Pick Up the Pieces Edition
The Tampa Bay Rays are back in Arlington Tuesday night, following the rally killing — game ending — debacle which found them on the wrong side of a 5-4 loss to the Texas Rangers Monday. All things controversial aside, the Rays seemed to be a half step behind the Rangers all night, not really putting …
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“That can’t happen in a major league game.”
Forget the fact that the Rays went 2-12 wRISP. Forget the fact that they are now 0-9 with the bases loaded, and 0-11 extending back to 2012. Forget the fact that Tampa Bay seemed to be a half step behind the Rangers all night; this has absolutely nothing to do with that. The scenario: Down …
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