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Art Deco · 09-30-2020, 11:05 PM

Game 1: The Rays win! The Rays win! Well, it was Matt Manning's turn in the rotation after all, which is the last time they won before tonight. Manning wasn't his sharpest, but he was good enough through 6 innings to lead the Rays to a 4-2 win over Toronto. He was dealing with baserunners right and left, and ended 6 7 1 1 2 6 to go to 14-6, 3.14. It took him 117 pitches to get through those 6 innings, however. Nick Anderson bounced back with a 1-2-3 inning in the 7th, Jose Alvarado had a scoreless frame in the 8th, and pitching for the first time in 9 days Jasseel De La Cruz made things interesting as he always seems to lately, giving up a HR to start the 9th and allowing a double to bring Vlad Jr to the plate as the tying run with 2 out before whiffing him to end the game and get save #27. Hunter Bishop got the offense going with HR #12 in the 3rd, and Vidal Brujan singled, stole his 56th base of the season and scored on a Keibert Ruiz single to make it 2-0 in that same frame. The Rays added 2 big insurance runs in the 8th on RBI singles from Alec Bohm and Bishop as well. Baltimore was idle so the Rays move within 1 1/2 of the lead.

Game 2: The Rays actually made it 2 in a row, but not without the requisite drama. Vidal Brujan had a big night and Tyler Glasnow pitched a pretty good 7 innings as they won 5-4. Brujan was involved in 4 of the 5 Rays runs and started off the game with a double, scoring on Brandon Marsh's double. Marsh came around to score on an Austin Meadows sac fly (Meadows' nascent 15-game hitting streak ended tonight). Brujan came up again in the 2nd and this time hit a 2-run HR (#9) to right to make it 4-0. The Jays came back and struck for 3 runs in the 2nd and 3rd to close within 1 and it would have been tied had Marsh not thrown out a runner at the plate. Glasnow settled down after that and made it through 7, going 7 10 3 3 1 9 and improving to 15-6, and Brujan scored on a wild pitch in the 4th to make it 5-3, which is where we stayed until the 9th. Nick Anderson had a solid 2-strikeout inning in the 8th but Jasseel De La Cruz once again made it an adventure in the 9th. For the second straight day he gave up a leadoff homer to cut into the lead, and he put another man on for Vlad Jr, whom today he got to pop out before getting the final out to notch shaky save #28. On the final out, he tweaked his ankle and is DtD with a sore ankle for 4 more days. Given how shaky he's been and now at less than 100%, I think I'll bypass him for the next save opportunity. And the Phillies beat Baltimore, marking the first time in what feels like forever that the Rays gained ground on the Orioles, now only 1/2 game back.

Game 3: Another bullpen implosion cost them a game they led 4-2 into the 8th. Evan Godwin, who had been lights out before today with the Rays, gave up a lefty-on-lefty 2-run HR to Cavan Biggio with 2 out in the 8th to tie the game, and Liam Hendriks with two out (there should have been 3 but a Keston Hiura error allowed the leadoff man to reach) gave up a 3-run HR to Gabriel Moreno to give Toronto a 7-4 walk-off win. As always, though, they scored early and couldn't add to it in the later innings and had 2 men thrown out at the plate which could have added to the lead. The big hit for the Rays early was Triston Casas's bases-clearing double in the 3rd to break a 1-1 tie but Casas tweaked his back on the play going into 3rd (where he too was thrown out but allowed the 3rd run to score) and so that's how Hiura ended up in the game to make the critical 9th-inning error as it's always something these days. Shane McClanahan pitched pretty well going 5.2 8 2 2 1 7 and Mitchell Verburg had one of his best outings as a Ray, getting the last man in the 6th, setting down the side in the 7th including a Vlad Jr whiff, and the first man in the 8th. But after getting the second out Godwin walked a man in front of Biggio and just like that the lead was gone and soon the game would be. Hunter Bishop hit HR #13 in the second for the first Rays run, and Nick Gonzales rapped out 3 more hits and is hitting .429 in 42 AB. Fortunately Philly took care of Baltimore again so no ground was lost.

Team record: 73-55. Next up: An off-day followed by a yuge 3-game set at the Trop vs Baltimore.

09-30-2020, 11:05 PM	#273
Art Deco Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2020 Posts: 6,937	August 27-29, 2025: at Toronto (3) Game 1: The Rays win! The Rays win! Well, it was Matt Manning's turn in the rotation after all, which is the last time they won before tonight. Manning wasn't his sharpest, but he was good enough through 6 innings to lead the Rays to a 4-2 win over Toronto. He was dealing with baserunners right and left, and ended 6 7 1 1 2 6 to go to 14-6, 3.14. It took him 117 pitches to get through those 6 innings, however. Nick Anderson bounced back with a 1-2-3 inning in the 7th, Jose Alvarado had a scoreless frame in the 8th, and pitching for the first time in 9 days Jasseel De La Cruz made things interesting as he always seems to lately, giving up a HR to start the 9th and allowing a double to bring Vlad Jr to the plate as the tying run with 2 out before whiffing him to end the game and get save #27. Hunter Bishop got the offense going with HR #12 in the 3rd, and Vidal Brujan singled, stole his 56th base of the season and scored on a Keibert Ruiz single to make it 2-0 in that same frame. The Rays added 2 big insurance runs in the 8th on RBI singles from Alec Bohm and Bishop as well. Baltimore was idle so the Rays move within 1 1/2 of the lead. Game 2: The Rays actually made it 2 in a row, but not without the requisite drama. Vidal Brujan had a big night and Tyler Glasnow pitched a pretty good 7 innings as they won 5-4. Brujan was involved in 4 of the 5 Rays runs and started off the game with a double, scoring on Brandon Marsh's double. Marsh came around to score on an Austin Meadows sac fly (Meadows' nascent 15-game hitting streak ended tonight). Brujan came up again in the 2nd and this time hit a 2-run HR (#9) to right to make it 4-0. The Jays came back and struck for 3 runs in the 2nd and 3rd to close within 1 and it would have been tied had Marsh not thrown out a runner at the plate. Glasnow settled down after that and made it through 7, going 7 10 3 3 1 9 and improving to 15-6, and Brujan scored on a wild pitch in the 4th to make it 5-3, which is where we stayed until the 9th. Nick Anderson had a solid 2-strikeout inning in the 8th but Jasseel De La Cruz once again made it an adventure in the 9th. For the second straight day he gave up a leadoff homer to cut into the lead, and he put another man on for Vlad Jr, whom today he got to pop out before getting the final out to notch shaky save #28. On the final out, he tweaked his ankle and is DtD with a sore ankle for 4 more days. Given how shaky he's been and now at less than 100%, I think I'll bypass him for the next save opportunity. And the Phillies beat Baltimore, marking the first time in what feels like forever that the Rays gained ground on the Orioles, now only 1/2 game back. Game 3: Another bullpen implosion cost them a game they led 4-2 into the 8th. Evan Godwin, who had been lights out before today with the Rays, gave up a lefty-on-lefty 2-run HR to Cavan Biggio with 2 out in the 8th to tie the game, and Liam Hendriks with two out (there should have been 3 but a Keston Hiura error allowed the leadoff man to reach) gave up a 3-run HR to Gabriel Moreno to give Toronto a 7-4 walk-off win. As always, though, they scored early and couldn't add to it in the later innings and had 2 men thrown out at the plate which could have added to the lead. The big hit for the Rays early was Triston Casas's bases-clearing double in the 3rd to break a 1-1 tie but Casas tweaked his back on the play going into 3rd (where he too was thrown out but allowed the 3rd run to score) and so that's how Hiura ended up in the game to make the critical 9th-inning error as it's always something these days. Shane McClanahan pitched pretty well going 5.2 8 2 2 1 7 and Mitchell Verburg had one of his best outings as a Ray, getting the last man in the 6th, setting down the side in the 7th including a Vlad Jr whiff, and the first man in the 8th. But after getting the second out Godwin walked a man in front of Biggio and just like that the lead was gone and soon the game would be. Hunter Bishop hit HR #13 in the second for the first Rays run, and Nick Gonzales rapped out 3 more hits and is hitting .429 in 42 AB. Fortunately Philly took care of Baltimore again so no ground was lost. Team record: 73-55. Next up: An off-day followed by a yuge 3-game set at the Trop vs Baltimore. Last edited by Art Deco; 10-01-2020 at 01:24 PM.