The New What Next: The Rays and the Diamondbacks, Part Deux

The Rays made their way to Pheonix Monday, in anticipation of their second two game series in a week against the Diamondbacks. Since leaving St. Petersburg Wednesday night, Arizona has been busy. They lost a makeup game against the Rangers and dropped two of three in Boston. They traded Ian Kennedy for LHPR Joe Thatcher, reinstated Brandon McCarthy from the DL, dumped reliever Tony Sipp and called up Tuffy Gosewisch after putting C Miguel Montero on the DL. They have lost six of eight overall.

Desmond Jennings to the DL, Bourgeois Recalled

The Tampa Bay Rays have recalled OF Jason Bourgeois from Triple-A Durham. Bourgeoise will fill in for the injured Desmond Jennings. Jennings fractured a finger on his left hand while sliding into second Saturday night in a successful stolen base attempt against the Giants. He’s been added to the 15-day DL. Bourgeois has posted a …

Foster Calls Tampa’s Bluff on Rays Stadium (Repost)

Noah Pransky (Shadow of the Stadium) sums up my thoughts perfectly. That said, I’ve decided to repost his piece (below) in its entirety. You can read the piece with all the applicable hot-links over at the Shadow of the Stadium main site. I’d also add that the rumors of an impending deal to bring a …

Looking Backward While Moving Forward: Another Series, Another Series Win

The Rays walked away from the Trop with another series win Sunday, after they came from behind to defeat the Giants by a score of 4-3. Tampa Bay is now 11-0-2 in the 13 series’ they’ve played since the middle of June. Since it’s a lazy day off, I’m going to do something a bit differently. The game summary will be broken down into the principal and peripheral. That is, the things that directly contributed to the win, and the others that formed the periphery.

Game Three Against the Giants: Sold Out

“Today’s Rays-Giants game at Tropicana Field is SOLD OUT!” -Tampa Bay Rays (via Twitter) After averaging just north of 17,000 fans per game on the season, the Rays are averaging somewhere in the ballpark of 28,000 fans per game over the course of four games — today’s sellout included. Cough, all this against the D’Backs …