Tampa Bay crawled into Yankee Stadium last night 2.5 games back of the Red Sox, tied with the Angels in the wildcard race following three demoralizing losses to the Yankees. Yet, after a 15-8 trouncing of the Yankees, the good guys were able to strut out of Ney York on a high note, just two …
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Starting Lineups, 9/22/11
Tampa Bay Rays (85-70, 2.5 back in the wilcard race and 2 back in the loss column) Jennings LF Upton CF Longoria 3B Joyce RF Damon DH Zobrist 2B Kotchman 1B Jaso C Brignac SS Moore LHP NY Yankees (95-60, clinched a playoff berth) Jeter SS Nunez 2B Teixeira DH Swisher RF Jones LF Montero …
Put On Those Rally Caps Rays Fans
Marc Topkin of the St. Petersburg Times excellent Rays blog, The Heater just posted a very interesting piece. It’s definitely worth the piece of the paper it’s printed on, urm….yeah, I guess that metaphor didn’t really translate well in the age of blogs. Nevertheless, check it out and put on those rally caps! Re-post below: …
C’mon Guys, You Can Do This!
I love the Simpsons, always have. And though I haven’t kept up with the more recent episodes, I still feel as though that even the more conflated scenarios in any given episode are relevant to daily life. Case in point, an episode titled the Boys of Bummer back from season 18. I know that some …
Yeesh…At Least We’ve Got Three More Games in This Series
The short synopsis: Rays get shut out (again) 5-0, Davis gets pulled in the fifth after 106 pitches, Nova gets his twelfth win in a row, the Red Sox also lost, and at least the Rays held their ground because of the Red Sox loss. At least there are three more games left in this series, starting …
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