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Art Deco · 11-30-2020, 01:22 PM

Game 1: The Rays jumped all over former teammate Chris Paddack in the early innings and held on to beat Boston 8-5. Keston Hiura led the game off with a double and scored on Wander Franco's single, Judson Fabian singled in Franco and Triston Casas's RBI groundout meant Jack Leiter had a 3-0 lead before he took the mound at Fenway. He immediately gave back 2 of those runs on a Pierson Gibis homer, but Hiura (#13) and Yordan Alvarez with a man on (#28) and back in the lineup for the first time in 10 days went deep to make it 6-2 in the 2nd. Wander added an RBI single in the 4th to increase the lead to 7-2, and Leiter was in the words of Chernobyl's Anatoly Dyatlov "not great, not terrible", going 6 7 3 3 3 3 (he also hit 3 guys) to go to 8-3 despite a 5.16 ERA. He was also aided by Julio Cedillo gunning down a runner at home plate. The bullpen was both bad (Evan Godwin, giving up Gibis' 2nd HR of the game and leaving with men on, and Mike Bayley, chosen to start the 9th up 8-4 and walking two men and giving up a hit) and good (Jack Filby, cleaning up Godwin's mess in the 7th and pitching a 1-2-3 8th, and JDLC, cleaning up Bayley's mess in the 9th and only giving up a sac fly to pick up save #22). With Baltimore losing yesterday and tonight the magic # is down to 3, and the Yankees also lost meaning it's status quo in the wild card race with Boston still 1/2 back of the Yankees for the second one.

Game 2: The Rays didn't generate a lot of offense today, but the pitching - especially the bullpen - was good as they nipped the Red Sox 3-2. Matt Manning started and was much better than his debacle in Toronto last weekend, even if he was in a bit of trouble most of the game. He went 6 9 2 2 0 5 with the 9th hit a leadoff single in the 7th. Evan Godwin came in and looked like he was going to struggle like yesterday, giving up a double to Tirso Orenlas to put men on 2nd and 3rd with nobody out. But he whiffed the tough Pierson Gibis as well as the also-tough Yoan Moncada and then got a groundout to end the inning. He ended up with win #4 when the Rays went ahead for good in the top of the 8th thanks to Julio Cedillo, who singled, stole second and scored on a Wander Franco single (RBI #99). Daniel Espino got a 1-2-3 8th (albeit with a couple of loud fly balls), and Jose Alvarado worked around a Triston Casas error in the 9th to get 2 Ks and save #9. The Rays took a 1-0 lead in the 2nd on Casas's 18th HR of the year, and after Boston tied it they went back ahead in the 5th when Alex Santos' wild pitch scored Keibert Ruiz. It was a costly loss for the Red Sox as the Yankees and Baltimore both won, with New York now 1 1/2 up on Boston for the second wild card. The win reduces the magic # to 2 and means a win tomorrow and a Baltimore loss will clinch the division. A statistical oddity I just noticed in the box score: each Boston hitter struck out exactly one time, including pinch-hitter Bob Kelly as Rays pitching totaled 10 whiffs on the day.

Game 3: There will be no division clinching today as the Rays bullpen blew an 8-3 lead in the 7th inning and they lost 10-8. The Rays scored 5 in the top of the 7th to go up by 5, but Hayden Johns, who got Christian Little out of the 5th and pitched a scoreless 6th, was left in too long by yours truly stubbornly trying to get that third out after there was one on and two out before three straight hits. Still it was 8-6 when he was pulled with two out but Jack Filby gave up a 2-run HR to Gabriel Arias to tie the game, and Jose Alvarado was positively terrible in the 8th, allowing 2 runs to give Boston the win. The Rays did put 2 on with 2 out against Boston closer Kyle Crick but Julio Cedillo was retired for the first time today on a fly ball to left to end the game. Andrew Knizner was the offense star for the Rays, with 2-run singles in the 2nd and 7th for a 4-RBI day while Cedillo was 3-4 with 2 runs scored and an RBI. Christian Little started and got his strikeouts but had all kinds of other trouble and couldn't finish the 5th, going 4.2 8 3 3 3 8 on 102 pitches. Had they held on they would have clinched the division as Milwaukee scored 3 in the 9th to beat Baltimore, so the magic # is now 1. The Yankees won so now the race is Baltimore and the Yankees tied for the two wild cards with Boston 2 1/2 behind.

Team record: 96-52. Next up: it's the Yankees' turn to face the Rays for 3 at Tropicana Field. Boston and Baltimore will be big Rays fans the next 3 days.

11-30-2020, 01:22 PM	#426
Art Deco Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2020 Posts: 7,553	September 10-12, 2027: at Boston (3) Game 1: The Rays jumped all over former teammate Chris Paddack in the early innings and held on to beat Boston 8-5. Keston Hiura led the game off with a double and scored on Wander Franco's single, Judson Fabian singled in Franco and Triston Casas's RBI groundout meant Jack Leiter had a 3-0 lead before he took the mound at Fenway. He immediately gave back 2 of those runs on a Pierson Gibis homer, but Hiura (#13) and Yordan Alvarez with a man on (#28) and back in the lineup for the first time in 10 days went deep to make it 6-2 in the 2nd. Wander added an RBI single in the 4th to increase the lead to 7-2, and Leiter was in the words of Chernobyl's Anatoly Dyatlov "not great, not terrible", going 6 7 3 3 3 3 (he also hit 3 guys) to go to 8-3 despite a 5.16 ERA. He was also aided by Julio Cedillo gunning down a runner at home plate. The bullpen was both bad (Evan Godwin, giving up Gibis' 2nd HR of the game and leaving with men on, and Mike Bayley, chosen to start the 9th up 8-4 and walking two men and giving up a hit) and good (Jack Filby, cleaning up Godwin's mess in the 7th and pitching a 1-2-3 8th, and JDLC, cleaning up Bayley's mess in the 9th and only giving up a sac fly to pick up save #22). With Baltimore losing yesterday and tonight the magic # is down to 3, and the Yankees also lost meaning it's status quo in the wild card race with Boston still 1/2 back of the Yankees for the second one. Game 2: The Rays didn't generate a lot of offense today, but the pitching - especially the bullpen - was good as they nipped the Red Sox 3-2. Matt Manning started and was much better than his debacle in Toronto last weekend, even if he was in a bit of trouble most of the game. He went 6 9 2 2 0 5 with the 9th hit a leadoff single in the 7th. Evan Godwin came in and looked like he was going to struggle like yesterday, giving up a double to Tirso Orenlas to put men on 2nd and 3rd with nobody out. But he whiffed the tough Pierson Gibis as well as the also-tough Yoan Moncada and then got a groundout to end the inning. He ended up with win #4 when the Rays went ahead for good in the top of the 8th thanks to Julio Cedillo, who singled, stole second and scored on a Wander Franco single (RBI #99). Daniel Espino got a 1-2-3 8th (albeit with a couple of loud fly balls), and Jose Alvarado worked around a Triston Casas error in the 9th to get 2 Ks and save #9. The Rays took a 1-0 lead in the 2nd on Casas's 18th HR of the year, and after Boston tied it they went back ahead in the 5th when Alex Santos' wild pitch scored Keibert Ruiz. It was a costly loss for the Red Sox as the Yankees and Baltimore both won, with New York now 1 1/2 up on Boston for the second wild card. The win reduces the magic # to 2 and means a win tomorrow and a Baltimore loss will clinch the division. A statistical oddity I just noticed in the box score: each Boston hitter struck out exactly one time, including pinch-hitter Bob Kelly as Rays pitching totaled 10 whiffs on the day. Game 3: There will be no division clinching today as the Rays bullpen blew an 8-3 lead in the 7th inning and they lost 10-8. The Rays scored 5 in the top of the 7th to go up by 5, but Hayden Johns, who got Christian Little out of the 5th and pitched a scoreless 6th, was left in too long by yours truly stubbornly trying to get that third out after there was one on and two out before three straight hits. Still it was 8-6 when he was pulled with two out but Jack Filby gave up a 2-run HR to Gabriel Arias to tie the game, and Jose Alvarado was positively terrible in the 8th, allowing 2 runs to give Boston the win. The Rays did put 2 on with 2 out against Boston closer Kyle Crick but Julio Cedillo was retired for the first time today on a fly ball to left to end the game. Andrew Knizner was the offense star for the Rays, with 2-run singles in the 2nd and 7th for a 4-RBI day while Cedillo was 3-4 with 2 runs scored and an RBI. Christian Little started and got his strikeouts but had all kinds of other trouble and couldn't finish the 5th, going 4.2 8 3 3 3 8 on 102 pitches. Had they held on they would have clinched the division as Milwaukee scored 3 in the 9th to beat Baltimore, so the magic # is now 1. The Yankees won so now the race is Baltimore and the Yankees tied for the two wild cards with Boston 2 1/2 behind. Team record: 96-52. Next up: it's the Yankees' turn to face the Rays for 3 at Tropicana Field. Boston and Baltimore will be big Rays fans the next 3 days. Last edited by Art Deco; 11-30-2020 at 03:54 PM.