You may call it lazy journalism, however the last thing I wanted to do was relive Wednesday night’s UGLY 11-3 loss to the Red Sox. Instead, I decided to recap the game as a series of tweets from Marc Topkin and the Tampa Bay Rays.
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Looking Backward While Moving Forward: Rays Take Down BoSox, 6-2
The Tampa Bay Rays started their final push for .500 with a 6-2 win against the last place Red Sox, Tuesday night. I read two things on the internet, in the midst of the game, that summed up the contest perfectly.
First, the Rays updated their Facebook page with the following,
Some updated Alex Cobb digits:
1.49 ERA after All-Star break (1st in MLB)
2.75 ERA overall (6th in AL)
81.1 IP without allowing HR (Rays record)
Then a dashing, yet anonymous, writer updated his Facebook page with this,
Irrelevant baseball? For sure. Whatever the case, watching Buchholz getting it handed to him is still gratifying!
Rays 9/23/14 Starting Lineup, Etc
Rays 9/23/14 Starting Lineup Zobrist CF DeJesus DH Longoria 3B Loney 1B Myers RF Franklin 2B Joyce LF Escobar SS Hanigan C Cobb RHP Noteworthiness Ben Zobrist needs one steal to join McCutchen and Ramirez as the only players with double-digit home runs and stolen bases over the last six seasons. I’ve got to say, …
Looking Backward While Moving Forward: Archer, Rays Beat White Sox 3-1
As this disappointing season winds to a close, it certainly is an odd feeling to be watching the Rays play irrelevant baseball. Hell, even in their last season of irrelevant baseball (2012), Tampa Bay was playing for something up until the very end. Still, if you subscribe to the idea that a fair number of those on the roster are making their case for 2015, these final games are pretty interesting. And while the infield of the future looked all but settled a few days back, Nick Franklin entered the picture and is making a pretty good case for himself.
Looking Backward While Moving Forward: Hellickson, Rays Fall 4-3
I’m not certain if the headline to ESPN’s piece on the Rays 4-3 loss to the Chicago White Sox is funny, ironic, or a combination of the two. It reads, “White Sox eliminate Rays from playoff contention,” and while the four runs put up by Chicago nailed the coffin shut, the Rays sealed their own fate a long time ago. But fine, I’ll take the bait and argue that if we’re looking at Tampa Bay’s elimination from the postseason on the micro level, then it was the lackluster performance by Jeremy Hellickson that sealed the teams fate, not the White Sox. After all, he’s the one who delivered the very hittable pitches.