Rays vs. Red Sox, 4/13/12

The Rays will enter Fenway Park today 1-2 on this road trip, and 4-2 overall. Boston enters today 1-5 on the season. Amid the pomp and circumstance of Fenway’s 101st year, blah blah blah, Tampa Bay will try to make up for their tough 7-2 loss to Detroit on Thursday. To be honest, I could …

Tampa Bay Rays lose 7-2 to Detroit Tigers (Repost from Marc Topkin and the Times)

Topkin, I couldn’t have said it any better. DETROIT — The Rays had some reason to leave Comerica Park pleased, heading to Boston after completing the first week of the season with a 4-2 mark against American League heavyweights New York and Detroit. “If we play like that all year, I’ll take it,” manager Joe …

Rays Vs. Le Tigre 4/12/12 (starting lineup included)

Tampa Bay will take the field in Detroit for the rubber match of this three game set, this afternoon at 1:05 PM. Coming off of a thrilling victory yesterday, Jeff Niemann (1-2 with a 3.48 ERA lifetime against the Tigers) will take the hill, in an attempt to keep this very dangerous Tigers team at …

Rays take game two against the Tigers, 4-2

…And then it all came down to the ninth inning. Tigers ace, Justin Verlander, had thrown a gem of a game. Up to that point, Verlander had only given up a hit and a walk, while holding the Rays to eight innings of shutout baseball. Meticulously slicing the Rays up like a surgeon with a …