Despite scoring five runs on ten hits — including three home runs by David DeJesus, Desmond Jennings, and James Loney — the Tampa Bay Rays dropped the first game of their current three-game series against the Toronto Blue Jays by a score of 10-5. Simply put, Erik Bedard couldn’t string together another good outing and the Blue Jays made him pay, tagging the lefty for eight runs on 12 hits. With a pitching duel between Alex Cobb and Mark Buehrle slated for Tuesday evening, Tampa Bay really needed to win this game — yet they failed to do so after running into the home run hitting buzz-saw that is the Blue Jays.
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Rays 5/26/14 Starting Lineup, Guyer to the DL, Colome Recalled
Rays 5/26/14 Starting Lineup DeJesus DH Longoria 3B Joyce LF Jennings CF Loney 1B Myers RF Figueroa 2B Escobar SS Hanigan C Bedard LHP Noteworthiness The Rays have placed Brandon Guyer on the 15-day DL (left thumb fracture), and corresponded by recalling RHP Alex Colome who was recently activated from a 50-game suspension. The Rays …
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The New What Next: From One Dome to Another — A Rays Vs. Blue Jays Series Preview of Sorts
Two surging AL East ball clubs — Tampa Bay and Toronto — will start a three-game set Monday, when the Rays head to the Rogers Centre to battle the Blue Jays. The Rays are coming off a huge three-game sweep of the Boston Red Sox, which culminated in a bench clearing scrum Sunday, and four consecutive wins overall (5-5 over their last 10). Meanwhile, the Blue Jays are on a six game winning streak (9-1 over their last 10), thanks to a pair of series’ sweeps against the Red Sox and Athletics.
Looking Backward While Moving Forward: Rays Finish Sox, 8-5
The Tampa Bay Rays extended their winning streak to four games Sunday — simultaneously extending the Boston Red Sox’s losing streak to 10 in. The Rays will head to Toronto following this afternoon, ahead of a three-game set against a red-hot Blue Jays.
Looking Backward While Moving Forward: Rays Suffocate Red Sox 6-5, In Extra Innings
It’s been said of baseball, that momentum is only as good as your next starter. The Rays started the day on a three-game winning streak, chocked full of momentum. And on paper, the pitching matchup — helmed by David Price for the Rays, and Jake Peavy for the Red Sox — favored Tampa Bay. Yet things didn’t look so hot for the Rays after the first inning. Boston tagged Price for five runs on four hits, and it appeared the Rays ace was phoning in his start. My how things changed over the span of the 15-inning contest. The Rays, slowly but surely, scratched out runs in the second, fourth, fifth, and 15th innings, clawing their way back from a five run deficit (for the first time since Game 162) to defeat Boston by a 6-5 margin in their third consecutive walk off win.