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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.

Looking Backward While Moving Forward: Myers, Rays Finish Off Giants in Extra Innings

The Rays were able to take the second game of a three-game set against the Giants by a score of 2-1 in dramatic walk-off fashion, in front of an impressive crowd of 31,969 fans at the Trop, Saturday night. Wil Myers drove in the game winning RBI with the bases loaded in the the bottom of the tenth, his first career walk-off. And though I wish the Rays could have tagged The Freak for more than a run, it was pretty damn cool to see a classic pitching duel between two former Cy Young Award winners.

Looking Backward While Moving Forward: Archer, Rays Lose 4-1

Most assumed that last night’s highly anticipated pitching match-up between Chris Archer and Madison Bumgarner would be a good one. At the end of the day though, only one pitcher would end his outing as the victor, while the other would walk away with a tally mark in the loss column. It just so happened that Bumgarner ultimately bested Archer and walked away knowing that he shut down one of the best teams in baseball.

Looking Backward While Moving Forward: Robo Posts His First Complete Game in Three Years

Going into last night’s game, Roberto Hernandez hadn’t put together a complete game — or a shutout — since 2010. Two hours and thirty-four minutes *later, Hernandez walked off the mound with his eighth career complete game — having taken a shutout two-outs into the ninth inning. Tampa Bay was able to maintain its status as the top team in the AL East, after Hernandez and the Rays took the first game of a two-game set against the Diamondbacks by a score of 5-2.