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Art Deco · 05-28-2021, 08:25 PM

May 15: Placed SS Ricky Widmar on the 10-day IL with a sprained ankle, recalled SS Jeff Baez from AAA Durham.

Let the Jeff Baez Era begin. He almost got the job to start the year as I shopped Widmar, but the offers weren't great for a free-agent-to-be making $20M and who can't stay healthy, as good as Widmar is when he's available. So we get a preview of 2035 instead, and Baez has hit well at Durham (309/442/392 this year after 329/387/490 last season).

Game 1: After 4 games in 3 days in Baltimore we only had 2 relievers showing in white, not yellow, so it was imperative Nate Schultz give us some length tonight. In the end he kind of did, going 6 7 2 2 4 8 on 102 pitches, not the model of efficiency but it got the job done as the two non-tired relievers were set up to preserve a 4-2 lead. Billy Hoyte went two perfect innings with three whiffs to lower his ERA to 0.75, and Kikuo Kawase came on for the 9th. Kawase was too rested, having only pitched once in the last 15 days mostly due to our winning games by way too many runs for save situations. And the rust showed as he allowed two men to reach and wild pitched one of them in with two out but rallied to strike out the next batter and hang onto a 4-3 win with save #9 while Schultz evened his record at 3-3. It was not the usual offensive orgy as you can tell, but Danny Ayala did smoke HR #10 to get the Rays on the board in the 2nd and Vlad Guerrero Jr's 10th with a man on in the 7th gave them the lead for good. Jaiden Hardaway once again left it late, singling in the 8th to make it 28 straight with a hit, and he then stole second, went to third on the bad throw and scored on a Dayle Jenkins sac fly for insurance against which we had to file a claim. Jeff Baez made his MLB debut and singled in his first at-bat, but later grounded into a pair of double plays and finished 1-4.

Game 2: You can't win 'em all, and the Rays saw their 8-game winning streak snapped tonight in Kansas City 5-3. A pair of Royals did them in. On the mound Tony Sanchez 1-hit them through 6 innings, and although they got to him for 3 in the 7th it wasn't enough. And at the plate they were owned by Alex Anderson. The second-year DH, who was 4-5 last night and drove in one of KC's runs, was 3-4 tonight and each of the three hits drove in runs: RBI doubles in the 1st and 3rd and just when the Rays pulled within 4-3 he had an RBI single off Mike Wherry in the 7th to give KC some breathing room. Leo Ortega pitched decently except for a rough sequence in the third where he allowed 3 runs on 4 hits, 3 of which were doubles. He finished 5 7 4 4 1 6 and lost his first game of the year, now 6-1. Danny Medina had his inherited runner score on that last Anderson hit after going 1 2/3 and Wherry went the final 1 1/3. The 7th-inning outburst was the extent of the offense with the key hit a Danny Ayala RBI double. Jeff Baez got his first MLB RBI with a groundout, but Ayala's double was their only extra-base hit among 6 on the night. The one hit they did have off Sanchez through 6 came off the bat of Jaiden Hardaway, so he's now more than halfway to DiMaggio at 29 straight.

Game 3: Surprise, surprise, the Rays have dropped two straight after being edged 3-2 by the Royals. Once again a Royals starter shut down the high-powered Rays offense and today it was Tim Levitt, who went 7.1 4 2 2 2 5 with the only damage against him a 2-run HR from Jon Jimenez (#5) in the 5th inning. That put the Rays up 2-1 behind Andy Aparicio, whom I probably shouldn't have brought out for the 7th as he was approaching 100 pitches. He put the first two men on and they were bunted over to 2nd and 3rd, so I brought in Tim Siqueiros with the hope of a strikeout. Instead I got a wild pitch scoring the tying run and a single scoring the go-ahead run before he finally did get the strikeout. AA finished 6.1 4 3 3 2 7 and probably deserved a better fate as he actually now has a losing record at 3-4 despite being on a 31-10 team. He has an impressive 7/66 BB/K ratio in 57.2 innings but 11 HR allowed (including one earlier in the game) has been his problem this season. Siqueiros went an inning and Billy Hoyte the final 2/3 to keep it close but 4 hits was all the offense got and none of them came from Jaiden Hardaway, meaning his hitting streak is over at 29. It was probably over before that when I mentioned the D-word (DiMaggio) yesterday.

Team record: 31-10. Next up: We keep heading west until we hit water as Anaheim is next on the itinerary for four games.

05-28-2021, 08:25 PM	#960
Art Deco Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2020 Posts: 7,572	May 15-17, 2034: at Kansas City (3) May 15: Placed SS Ricky Widmar on the 10-day IL with a sprained ankle, recalled SS Jeff Baez from AAA Durham. Let the Jeff Baez Era begin. He almost got the job to start the year as I shopped Widmar, but the offers weren't great for a free-agent-to-be making $20M and who can't stay healthy, as good as Widmar is when he's available. So we get a preview of 2035 instead, and Baez has hit well at Durham (309/442/392 this year after 329/387/490 last season). Game 1: After 4 games in 3 days in Baltimore we only had 2 relievers showing in white, not yellow, so it was imperative Nate Schultz give us some length tonight. In the end he kind of did, going 6 7 2 2 4 8 on 102 pitches, not the model of efficiency but it got the job done as the two non-tired relievers were set up to preserve a 4-2 lead. Billy Hoyte went two perfect innings with three whiffs to lower his ERA to 0.75, and Kikuo Kawase came on for the 9th. Kawase was too rested, having only pitched once in the last 15 days mostly due to our winning games by way too many runs for save situations. And the rust showed as he allowed two men to reach and wild pitched one of them in with two out but rallied to strike out the next batter and hang onto a 4-3 win with save #9 while Schultz evened his record at 3-3. It was not the usual offensive orgy as you can tell, but Danny Ayala did smoke HR #10 to get the Rays on the board in the 2nd and Vlad Guerrero Jr's 10th with a man on in the 7th gave them the lead for good. Jaiden Hardaway once again left it late, singling in the 8th to make it 28 straight with a hit, and he then stole second, went to third on the bad throw and scored on a Dayle Jenkins sac fly for insurance against which we had to file a claim. Jeff Baez made his MLB debut and singled in his first at-bat, but later grounded into a pair of double plays and finished 1-4. Game 2: You can't win 'em all, and the Rays saw their 8-game winning streak snapped tonight in Kansas City 5-3. A pair of Royals did them in. On the mound Tony Sanchez 1-hit them through 6 innings, and although they got to him for 3 in the 7th it wasn't enough. And at the plate they were owned by Alex Anderson. The second-year DH, who was 4-5 last night and drove in one of KC's runs, was 3-4 tonight and each of the three hits drove in runs: RBI doubles in the 1st and 3rd and just when the Rays pulled within 4-3 he had an RBI single off Mike Wherry in the 7th to give KC some breathing room. Leo Ortega pitched decently except for a rough sequence in the third where he allowed 3 runs on 4 hits, 3 of which were doubles. He finished 5 7 4 4 1 6 and lost his first game of the year, now 6-1. Danny Medina had his inherited runner score on that last Anderson hit after going 1 2/3 and Wherry went the final 1 1/3. The 7th-inning outburst was the extent of the offense with the key hit a Danny Ayala RBI double. Jeff Baez got his first MLB RBI with a groundout, but Ayala's double was their only extra-base hit among 6 on the night. The one hit they did have off Sanchez through 6 came off the bat of Jaiden Hardaway, so he's now more than halfway to DiMaggio at 29 straight. Game 3: Surprise, surprise, the Rays have dropped two straight after being edged 3-2 by the Royals. Once again a Royals starter shut down the high-powered Rays offense and today it was Tim Levitt, who went 7.1 4 2 2 2 5 with the only damage against him a 2-run HR from Jon Jimenez (#5) in the 5th inning. That put the Rays up 2-1 behind Andy Aparicio, whom I probably shouldn't have brought out for the 7th as he was approaching 100 pitches. He put the first two men on and they were bunted over to 2nd and 3rd, so I brought in Tim Siqueiros with the hope of a strikeout. Instead I got a wild pitch scoring the tying run and a single scoring the go-ahead run before he finally did get the strikeout. AA finished 6.1 4 3 3 2 7 and probably deserved a better fate as he actually now has a losing record at 3-4 despite being on a 31-10 team. He has an impressive 7/66 BB/K ratio in 57.2 innings but 11 HR allowed (including one earlier in the game) has been his problem this season. Siqueiros went an inning and Billy Hoyte the final 2/3 to keep it close but 4 hits was all the offense got and none of them came from Jaiden Hardaway, meaning his hitting streak is over at 29. It was probably over before that when I mentioned the D-word (DiMaggio) yesterday. Team record: 31-10. Next up: We keep heading west until we hit water as Anaheim is next on the itinerary for four games. Last edited by Art Deco; 05-28-2021 at 11:13 PM.