Looking Backward While Moving Forward: The “That Was A Disappointing Loss” Edition

Let’s sum up Saturday’s game as a series of bulleted observations: Price looked much better. Forget for a second that he walked two batters and allowed five base runners to reach with two outs in every inning except the fourth, Price posted a 6.0 IP/4 H/1 R/1 ER/2 BB/8 K/1 HR slash line on 106 …

Rays 4/13/13 Starting Lineup, Etc

The Tampa Bay Rays snap back into action Saturday, following the postponement of Friday evening’s game due to inclement weather. As we noted Friday, the Rays shuffled their starting rotation around because of the rainout. The pitching match-ups now look like this: Price vs. Lester on Saturday, Cobb vs. Buchholz on Sunday, and Hellickson vs Dempster …

The New What Next: Rays vs. Red Sox

The Tampa Bay Rays make their way into Boston for a four game wrap-around series against the Red Sox, following a series salvaging 2-0, five hit, shutout of the Texas Rangers Wednesday, in Arlington. Matt Moore did not have the most sparkling of outings, posting a 5.1 IP/1 H/0 R/0 ER/6 BB/5 K slash line …

Rays Drop Another, Look to Right the Ship

There isn’t much that can be said following Tuesday night’s disappointing loss to the Rangers. Too bad there wasn’t a controversial call to blame the it on. I guess we’ll just have to go back to the old standard of blaming things on an anemic offense that couldn’t, again, get the job done. From a …

Looking Backward While Moving Forward: The Pick Up the Pieces Edition

The Tampa Bay Rays are back in Arlington Tuesday night, following the rally killing — game ending — debacle which found them on the wrong side of a 5-4 loss to the Texas Rangers Monday. All things controversial aside, the Rays seemed to be a half step behind the Rangers all night, not really putting …