Looking Backward While Moving Forward, Rays vs. Mariners 8/15/12 (lineup included)

That’s what happens when you let bad teams hang around. -AM sports talk radio host Yeah, the remark above says it all. The Rays were incapable of putting the Mariners away last night as a late inning Carlos Pena error, combined with an offense that couldn’t capitalize on scoring opportunity after scoring opportunity, blew any …

Looking backward while moving forward, Rays vs Orioles 8/5/12 (starting lineup included)

A short post today because I’m hungover. The Rays look to turn their fortunes around after getting shutout 4-0 by a masterful Wei-Yin Chen and the Orioles. The big O didn’t look so hot last night. The Rays hitters reached base safely eight times, yet they squandered every scoring opportunity they had. Let’s look at …