I thought it would be interesting to compare the three pitchers vying for the fifth starter spot next season (assuming that Jeremy Hellickson isn’t traded in the off-season). In doing so, I looked that Colome, Hellickson, and Karns’ body of work over the last 30 days.
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Looking Backward While Moving Forward: Rays Fall Despite Strong Effort By Archer
Going into Friday night’s game, Rays starter Chris Archer set one goal for himself in this, his final start of the season: pitch strongly. And over the course of 7-2/3 innings of baseball, Archer put together his strongest outing of the season — holding the Indians to one run on three hits, while striking out six. Unfortunately for him,Jose Ramirez took advantage of a first inning mistake pitch for the only run of the game, and the Rays had to butt heads with the 2014 Cy Young Award contender, Corey Kluber.
Looking Backward While Moving Forward: Rays Fall 11-3 — A Recap as a Series of Tweets
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.
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, …