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Art Deco · 06-30-2020, 05:11 PM

Game 1: Joe Ryan was on the hill today and with his penchant for giving up HRs and all the power in the Houston lineup, things stood a chance of being ugly. Well he did give up 2 solo HRs (to former Rays prospect Jesus Sanchez and Yordan Alvarez) but it was a series of singles that did him in, including a sequence in the 5th where he got two tough hitters out but gave up singles to Francisco Cervelli and Taylor Walls of all people ahead of Jose Altuve, who drove in a run. He got his strikeouts but ended up with a 5.1 8 4 4 1 6 line with Zack Britton wild-pitching in what proved to be the winning run in a 4-3 loss. The Rays jumped out quickly in the first on a Brujan single & SB and a Wander double but after that they couldn't get anything going against Jairo Solis, who had an ERA near 6 coming in. They loaded the bases with 0 outs against Raisel Iglesias in the 8th but could only get one run and Wander hit one into the Crawford boxes in the 9th off another former Ray, Taylor Rogers, but it wasn't enough. Toronto was idle so the lead is 6 1/2.

Game 2: It was Home Run Derby time at Minute Maid Park with the Rays hitting 5 and the Astros 4, and the Rays came out on top 7-5. It's not often you can say a pitcher gave up four HRs and pitched a pretty good game, but Blake Snell did so with a 7 5 5 5 1 8 line - outside of the homers, he was practically unhittable. Of course that would have been a problem if the Rays weren't teeing off themselves, but tee off they did, with Max Kepler opening the scoring with a 3-run first inning shot, Keibert Ruiz with a pair of solo homers, Ji-Man coming through again, and Abraham Toro going deep against his old mates. Nick Anderson and Brad Hand shut it down in the 8th and 9th with Hand getting save #17 in his first action in a while. The Jays won their own HR derby against the Braves 10-9 (Atlanta had 6 and they had 4) so the lead remains 6 1/2. HRs were flying everywhere tonight - the White Sox hit 8 in a 13-12 extra-inning loss and there were a total of 73 hit in all games which shattered the MLB record of 62 on July 2, 2002.

June 22: Optioned P Clarke Schmidt to AAA Durham, recalled P A.J. Puk from AAA Durham.

Puk gets the start tonight in Houston, with Yonny ready to go long if things don't go well.

Game 3: Well AJ Puk was great until he wasn't and the end result was an 8-4 Astros win. Puk held the Astros hitless through the first 3 innings as the Rays built a 2-0 lead on Max Kepler's solo HR and RBI single, but the wheels came off in the 4th when Alex Bregman took him deep to tie the game, and then a dropped fly ball by Brandon Marsh opened the gates for the Astros to add 2 more. Then in the 5th Bregman took Puk deep again with a man on and that was that. He did only walk one and struck out 5 in his 5 innings but obviously the longball killed him. Kepler homered again for his third in two days and Ji-Man added one for the second straight day as well in the 8th, but that only gave us the final score. The Jays won big against Atlanta so the lead is down to 5 1/2.

Team record: 50-24.

06-30-2020, 05:11 PM	#46
Art Deco Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2020 Posts: 7,631	June 20-22, 2022 at Houston (3) Game 1: Joe Ryan was on the hill today and with his penchant for giving up HRs and all the power in the Houston lineup, things stood a chance of being ugly. Well he did give up 2 solo HRs (to former Rays prospect Jesus Sanchez and Yordan Alvarez) but it was a series of singles that did him in, including a sequence in the 5th where he got two tough hitters out but gave up singles to Francisco Cervelli and Taylor Walls of all people ahead of Jose Altuve, who drove in a run. He got his strikeouts but ended up with a 5.1 8 4 4 1 6 line with Zack Britton wild-pitching in what proved to be the winning run in a 4-3 loss. The Rays jumped out quickly in the first on a Brujan single & SB and a Wander double but after that they couldn't get anything going against Jairo Solis, who had an ERA near 6 coming in. They loaded the bases with 0 outs against Raisel Iglesias in the 8th but could only get one run and Wander hit one into the Crawford boxes in the 9th off another former Ray, Taylor Rogers, but it wasn't enough. Toronto was idle so the lead is 6 1/2. Game 2: It was Home Run Derby time at Minute Maid Park with the Rays hitting 5 and the Astros 4, and the Rays came out on top 7-5. It's not often you can say a pitcher gave up four HRs and pitched a pretty good game, but Blake Snell did so with a 7 5 5 5 1 8 line - outside of the homers, he was practically unhittable. Of course that would have been a problem if the Rays weren't teeing off themselves, but tee off they did, with Max Kepler opening the scoring with a 3-run first inning shot, Keibert Ruiz with a pair of solo homers, Ji-Man coming through again, and Abraham Toro going deep against his old mates. Nick Anderson and Brad Hand shut it down in the 8th and 9th with Hand getting save #17 in his first action in a while. The Jays won their own HR derby against the Braves 10-9 (Atlanta had 6 and they had 4) so the lead remains 6 1/2. HRs were flying everywhere tonight - the White Sox hit 8 in a 13-12 extra-inning loss and there were a total of 73 hit in all games which shattered the MLB record of 62 on July 2, 2002. June 22: Optioned P Clarke Schmidt to AAA Durham, recalled P A.J. Puk from AAA Durham. Puk gets the start tonight in Houston, with Yonny ready to go long if things don't go well. Game 3: Well AJ Puk was great until he wasn't and the end result was an 8-4 Astros win. Puk held the Astros hitless through the first 3 innings as the Rays built a 2-0 lead on Max Kepler's solo HR and RBI single, but the wheels came off in the 4th when Alex Bregman took him deep to tie the game, and then a dropped fly ball by Brandon Marsh opened the gates for the Astros to add 2 more. Then in the 5th Bregman took Puk deep again with a man on and that was that. He did only walk one and struck out 5 in his 5 innings but obviously the longball killed him. Kepler homered again for his third in two days and Ji-Man added one for the second straight day as well in the 8th, but that only gave us the final score. The Jays won big against Atlanta so the lead is down to 5 1/2. Team record: 50-24. Last edited by Art Deco; 06-30-2020 at 08:54 PM.