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Art Deco · 06-28-2020, 03:33 PM

June 6: Designated P Ryan Stanek for assigment and placed him on waivers, recalled OF Josh Lowe from AAA Durham.

Stanek gone as promised, Lowe up for now although with Seattle throwing 4 lefties at us in the next series, I may bring Khris Davis up from Durham.

Game 1: Well when your starting pitching stinks, it's a hard thing to overcome. First you have to score tons of runs, your bullpen has to hold them the rest of the way, and of course said bullpen gets burned out. Well Brendan McKay faceplanted again tonight and it was ugly. He retired the first two batters he faced, then issued two walks and gave up a 3-run shot to JT Realmuto. Then after he struck out the side in the second and the Rays rallied for four runs against a tough customer in Patrick Corbin, he got himself in even more trouble in the 3rd, giving up 2 runs and leaving two more on when he was pulled for Yonny Chirinos, who let those two runners score to make it 7-4 Nats. Then Chirinos gave up 4 of his own in the 4th including a 3-run Juan Soto shot and the rout was truly on, with the final 14-5 Washington. Meadows has been missed the last month but even moreso has been any kind of consistent starting pitching as McKay's ERA is now near 6 and Snell's is over that. Really Fried and especially Ryan have been the ones to count on. Anyway another starting pitcher that let them down is their opponent tomorrow night as Greinke is in fact scheduled to start for Washington. Silver linings: Wander is truly out of his slump, 2 for 4 with a 2-run double, and the Jays lost to the Yankees so the lead is still 4 1/2. But perhaps it's the Yankees we should ultimately worry about - after their 0-6 start, they've gone 33-22 and while they're still 10 back they've only played the Rays twice so far.

Game 2: It's Groundhog Day for the Rays as once again the offense does its job but the starting pitching undoes it. Today it was Max Fried who squandered a 3-0 first inning lead off a 2-run HR from Ji-Man and solo shot by Cruz. Fried loaded the bases for JT Realmuto and like yesterday the Nats catcher killed the Rays, this time with a grand slam. Fried then loaded the bases again in the inning but got out of that. It turned out the Rays faced Artie Lewicki instead of Greinke, and after the 3-run first Lewicki settled down while the Nats expanded their lead with single runs in the fifth, sixth and seventh. Two of those were attributable to newest Ray and former Nat Will Harris, who gave up an RBI double to score one of Fried's runs and then served another homer to Realmuto. But the Rays got back within 7-6 when pinch hitter Whit Merrifield smacked a 2-run homer off Keone Kela, and they put two on in the ninth against Washington closer Tanner Scott but couldn't get the tying run in as they lost 3 in a row for the first time this season. Fried's final line was a butt-ugly 5.2 7 6 6 6 4 (the walks!), offsetting 3 more hits from Wander (who's raised his BA 25 points in 3 games) and a 13-hit overall performance by the offense. The Yankees beat the Jays again which is good in the short term but possibly not in the long term.

Team record: 42-18.

06-28-2020, 03:33 PM	#42
Art Deco Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2020 Posts: 7,403	June 7-8, 2022: at Washington (2) June 6: Designated P Ryan Stanek for assigment and placed him on waivers, recalled OF Josh Lowe from AAA Durham. Stanek gone as promised, Lowe up for now although with Seattle throwing 4 lefties at us in the next series, I may bring Khris Davis up from Durham. Game 1: Well when your starting pitching stinks, it's a hard thing to overcome. First you have to score tons of runs, your bullpen has to hold them the rest of the way, and of course said bullpen gets burned out. Well Brendan McKay faceplanted again tonight and it was ugly. He retired the first two batters he faced, then issued two walks and gave up a 3-run shot to JT Realmuto. Then after he struck out the side in the second and the Rays rallied for four runs against a tough customer in Patrick Corbin, he got himself in even more trouble in the 3rd, giving up 2 runs and leaving two more on when he was pulled for Yonny Chirinos, who let those two runners score to make it 7-4 Nats. Then Chirinos gave up 4 of his own in the 4th including a 3-run Juan Soto shot and the rout was truly on, with the final 14-5 Washington. Meadows has been missed the last month but even moreso has been any kind of consistent starting pitching as McKay's ERA is now near 6 and Snell's is over that. Really Fried and especially Ryan have been the ones to count on. Anyway another starting pitcher that let them down is their opponent tomorrow night as Greinke is in fact scheduled to start for Washington. Silver linings: Wander is truly out of his slump, 2 for 4 with a 2-run double, and the Jays lost to the Yankees so the lead is still 4 1/2. But perhaps it's the Yankees we should ultimately worry about - after their 0-6 start, they've gone 33-22 and while they're still 10 back they've only played the Rays twice so far. Game 2: It's Groundhog Day for the Rays as once again the offense does its job but the starting pitching undoes it. Today it was Max Fried who squandered a 3-0 first inning lead off a 2-run HR from Ji-Man and solo shot by Cruz. Fried loaded the bases for JT Realmuto and like yesterday the Nats catcher killed the Rays, this time with a grand slam. Fried then loaded the bases again in the inning but got out of that. It turned out the Rays faced Artie Lewicki instead of Greinke, and after the 3-run first Lewicki settled down while the Nats expanded their lead with single runs in the fifth, sixth and seventh. Two of those were attributable to newest Ray and former Nat Will Harris, who gave up an RBI double to score one of Fried's runs and then served another homer to Realmuto. But the Rays got back within 7-6 when pinch hitter Whit Merrifield smacked a 2-run homer off Keone Kela, and they put two on in the ninth against Washington closer Tanner Scott but couldn't get the tying run in as they lost 3 in a row for the first time this season. Fried's final line was a butt-ugly 5.2 7 6 6 6 4 (the walks!), offsetting 3 more hits from Wander (who's raised his BA 25 points in 3 games) and a 13-hit overall performance by the offense. The Yankees beat the Jays again which is good in the short term but possibly not in the long term. Team record: 42-18. Last edited by Art Deco; 06-28-2020 at 06:41 PM.