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Rays 9/11/15 Starting Lineup, Etc

Rays 9/11/15 Starting Lineup

Guyer DH
Mahtook LF
Longoria 3B
Forsythe 2B
Cabrera SS
Souza RF
Shaffer 1B
Kiermaier CF
Rivera C
Archer RHP

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!

Looking Backward While Moving Forward: Rays Strike Back, 7-0

For those of you pining for the acerbity of the Rays and Red Sox games of yore, the acrimonious linkage returned to The Trop Saturday night, in what would go down as one of the more truly bizarre games in recent history. A power outage to start the game, five hit batsmen, and a TKO of Dustin Pedroia later, the Tampa Bay Rays walked away with a combined 7-0, one hit shutout of the Boston Red Sox.