After tonight’s hyperbolic freakout now known as Joel Peralta Pine Tar Fiasco: 2012, I thought that Dirk Hayhurst’s perspective on the Jose Valverde Ball Doctoring Fiasco: 2012 would be applicable. See, the Garfoose wrote a piece on Valverde, and the hullabaloo that surrounded Jose getting busted for throwing spit-balls. I also cover ball doctoring in …
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Alright kids, today starts a three game set in the home of the Bad Brains, Washington DC. This should be a fun series, with the best pitching staff in baseball taking on the fifth best pitching staff in baseball. The Rays and the Nationals, pitching-wise at least, are fairly close to one another. Hitting-wise, it’s a …
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The Rays will attempt to win the rubber match of this three game set against the Fish today at the Trop. The anemic offense reared it ugly head last night, with Tampa Bay scoring three runs on nine hits, and going 1-5 wRISP. The Rays would ultimately strand 10 on the bags. 14 men reached …
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By: Sam Bliesner http://www.bliesnermlb.mlblogs.com (Just as an initial note: some advanced statistics are used, so I have linked each to an explanation through FanGraphs.com; all stats are taken from FanGraphs.com) After Friday night’s one-hit 11-0 knock out of the Marlins, in which Zobrist went 2-3 with a HR, RBI and 2 runs on the night, …
How I wish the Rays could butt heads against the Marlins every night! The Rays, lead by a 7 IP/1 H/0 R/3 BB/8 K line posting Matt Moore, absolutely destroyed the Fish in a one hit 11-0 blow-out at the Trop. Maybe the Rays should get all Dickey on things and challenge the one hit …
