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Art Deco · 08-19-2020, 08:36 PM

Game 1: The tough losses continue to pile up as the Rays fell 5-4 in 10 innings to the Red Sox today on an Abraham Toro walk-off homer off Jasseel De La Cruz. It was a back-and-forth affair with the Rays having 2-1 and 4-3 leads as Tyler Glasnow got the start. He had a bit of a rough start by his standards, going 6.1 8 4 4 1 8 but he left with the lead, only for Jose Alvarado to allow one of his runners to score and send us to extras, setting the stage for Toro's heroics. The offense was up and down with the 4 runs and 9 hits but they struck out a season-high 15 times including 4 from Nick Schnell and 3 each from Seth Beer and Triston Casas, starting for a tired Rafael Devers. Austin Meadows was 3-4 with 2 RBI and Beer and Ronaldo Hernandez had sac flies but all the strikeouts meant they couldn't get other runners home. With the win and a Baltimore loss, Boston moves into second place, 4 behind the Rays.

May 17: Sent P Scott Barlow to AAA Durham for injury rehab.

Barlow is back from his oblique injury and will get several appearances at Durham. He's out of options so he'll eventually have to be put on the active MLB roster or traded or waived.

Game 2: The Rays bounced back with a closer-than-it-looked 7-1 win over Boston behind the bat of Alec Bohm, who clubbed a pair of homers and drove in 3. His first homer put them on the board in the 3rd, and after Boston tied in the bottom of the inning and Keston Hiura's sac fly put the Rays back up 2-1, his 2-run homer in the 5th made it 4-1 and gave the Rays some breathing room. This came after Daniel Lynch pulled a Houdini act in the 4th. After loading the bases with nobody out, he got Buster Posey to hit the ball back at him and get a force at the plate, and then he got Niko Goodrum to hit into a 4-6-3 double play. Lynch wasn't overpowering and he was a bit wild, leaving with a 6 5 1 0 4 3 line and hitting Jesse Winker with a pitch to lead off the 7th. Ian Hamilton came on and his second Rays appearance went much better than the first as he got 3 outs on 3 pitches, getting Abraham Toro to roll into a double play and Alex Verdugo to ground out. The Rays then broke it open in the 8th on a 2-run double from Vidal Brujan and a sac fly from Wander, who stayed in his slump at 0-4 and has now seen his BA plummet to .278. We've seen this before, and it always seems to end with a ridiculous hot streak of multi-hit games so hopefully we have that to look forward to. Hamilton stayed on for the 8th and got through unscathed, and Asa Lacy had a 5-pitch 1-2-3 9th to close it out. Lynch improves to 5-1, 3.02 and a guy who started the year without a rotation spot has made the most of his opportunity.

Game 3: The Rays rapped out 16 hits and Dustin May did just enough as they beat the Red Sox 6-2 to take 2 of 3 at Fenway. After a Jesse Winker HR put Boston up 1-0 in the 3rd, the Rays got 3 in the 4th on a Devers double (the second of his 4 hits today), a Keibert Ruiz double to score Devers, an Alec Bohm single to score Ruiz, and a Vidal Brujan single to score Bohm. Then they tacked on two more in the 5th on a wild pitch and another Bohm RBI single. Bohm ended with 3 hits on the day to cap a big weekend at Fenway which brought his average over. 300. In the 8th, Hunter Bishop singled, got his first MLB stolen base (on his 4th attempt) and scored on a Brujan single. Meanwhile May was far from his sharpest (after walking 6 men all season he issued 4 bases on balls today), getting only one strikeout and many fly balls instead of his trademark grounders. But he still managed a 6 5 2 2 4 1 line which was good enough to get him win #4. At 5-2, Jose Alvarado pitched the 7th and got through clean and with it 6-2 in the 8th Mitch Keller pitched the final two innings without incident. The only bit of bad news today was that Keibert bruised his knee when sliding into home when he scored and had to leave the game. He's DtD for 7 days so there's a chance he goes on the IL and Chris Betts gets a long-deserved call-up, however brief. The division lead now expands to 6.

Team record: 27-13. Next up: the road trip swings through Cleveland for 4 games.

08-19-2020, 08:36 PM	#171
Art Deco Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2020 Posts: 6,934	May 17-19, 2024: at Boston (3) Game 1: The tough losses continue to pile up as the Rays fell 5-4 in 10 innings to the Red Sox today on an Abraham Toro walk-off homer off Jasseel De La Cruz. It was a back-and-forth affair with the Rays having 2-1 and 4-3 leads as Tyler Glasnow got the start. He had a bit of a rough start by his standards, going 6.1 8 4 4 1 8 but he left with the lead, only for Jose Alvarado to allow one of his runners to score and send us to extras, setting the stage for Toro's heroics. The offense was up and down with the 4 runs and 9 hits but they struck out a season-high 15 times including 4 from Nick Schnell and 3 each from Seth Beer and Triston Casas, starting for a tired Rafael Devers. Austin Meadows was 3-4 with 2 RBI and Beer and Ronaldo Hernandez had sac flies but all the strikeouts meant they couldn't get other runners home. With the win and a Baltimore loss, Boston moves into second place, 4 behind the Rays. May 17: Sent P Scott Barlow to AAA Durham for injury rehab. Barlow is back from his oblique injury and will get several appearances at Durham. He's out of options so he'll eventually have to be put on the active MLB roster or traded or waived. Game 2: The Rays bounced back with a closer-than-it-looked 7-1 win over Boston behind the bat of Alec Bohm, who clubbed a pair of homers and drove in 3. His first homer put them on the board in the 3rd, and after Boston tied in the bottom of the inning and Keston Hiura's sac fly put the Rays back up 2-1, his 2-run homer in the 5th made it 4-1 and gave the Rays some breathing room. This came after Daniel Lynch pulled a Houdini act in the 4th. After loading the bases with nobody out, he got Buster Posey to hit the ball back at him and get a force at the plate, and then he got Niko Goodrum to hit into a 4-6-3 double play. Lynch wasn't overpowering and he was a bit wild, leaving with a 6 5 1 0 4 3 line and hitting Jesse Winker with a pitch to lead off the 7th. Ian Hamilton came on and his second Rays appearance went much better than the first as he got 3 outs on 3 pitches, getting Abraham Toro to roll into a double play and Alex Verdugo to ground out. The Rays then broke it open in the 8th on a 2-run double from Vidal Brujan and a sac fly from Wander, who stayed in his slump at 0-4 and has now seen his BA plummet to .278. We've seen this before, and it always seems to end with a ridiculous hot streak of multi-hit games so hopefully we have that to look forward to. Hamilton stayed on for the 8th and got through unscathed, and Asa Lacy had a 5-pitch 1-2-3 9th to close it out. Lynch improves to 5-1, 3.02 and a guy who started the year without a rotation spot has made the most of his opportunity. Game 3: The Rays rapped out 16 hits and Dustin May did just enough as they beat the Red Sox 6-2 to take 2 of 3 at Fenway. After a Jesse Winker HR put Boston up 1-0 in the 3rd, the Rays got 3 in the 4th on a Devers double (the second of his 4 hits today), a Keibert Ruiz double to score Devers, an Alec Bohm single to score Ruiz, and a Vidal Brujan single to score Bohm. Then they tacked on two more in the 5th on a wild pitch and another Bohm RBI single. Bohm ended with 3 hits on the day to cap a big weekend at Fenway which brought his average over. 300. In the 8th, Hunter Bishop singled, got his first MLB stolen base (on his 4th attempt) and scored on a Brujan single. Meanwhile May was far from his sharpest (after walking 6 men all season he issued 4 bases on balls today), getting only one strikeout and many fly balls instead of his trademark grounders. But he still managed a 6 5 2 2 4 1 line which was good enough to get him win #4. At 5-2, Jose Alvarado pitched the 7th and got through clean and with it 6-2 in the 8th Mitch Keller pitched the final two innings without incident. The only bit of bad news today was that Keibert bruised his knee when sliding into home when he scored and had to leave the game. He's DtD for 7 days so there's a chance he goes on the IL and Chris Betts gets a long-deserved call-up, however brief. The division lead now expands to 6. Team record: 27-13. Next up: the road trip swings through Cleveland for 4 games. Last edited by Art Deco; 08-20-2020 at 08:40 AM.