Rays 5/11/15 Starting Lineup
Guyer CF
Souza RF
Longoria 3B
Forsythe DH
Butler LF
Loney 1B
Cabrera SS
Beckham 2B
Rivera C
Colome RHP
Noteworthiness
– Haven’t read our Rays/Yankees series preview yet? Get on that now, my friends.
– As Ian Malinowski (DRaysBay) wrote,
Every win has been a bonus, and every loss could be shrugged off, because pretty much the whole team was on the disabled list. “Just keep it close for awhile,” we said, because the league would be in trouble when Alex Cobb and Drew Smyly came back.
But now, Cobb and Smyly are not coming back. Who knows about John Jaso’s wrist, and for that matter Desmond Jennings’s knee. The wagons are circled, but there is no cavalry on the way.
That means that if this team is going anywhere, it’s up to the guys here right now.Asdrubal Cabrera and Rene Rivera must hit up to their expectations. Steven Souza needs to figure out how to strike out less often. Erasmo Ramirez needs to show that his recent flashes of command are real, and the rotation as a whole must continue to be the best in baseball despite the absence of its two best pitchers.