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Art Deco · 12-21-2020, 11:41 PM

Game 1: Christian Little had one of his worst games of the season tonight and the bats did little to help in a 7-2 loss at Cleveland. Little was roughed up for 3 runs on 5 hits in the 1st inning and things didn't get much better from there, as he limped through to the tune of 5 8 5 5 1 5. After a couple of scoreless innings from Christian Chamberlain (who's really pitched well lately), Jack Filby had the Hyde version of one of his Jekyll/Hyde outings with 2 runs allowed in the 8th. But by then it was a lost cause as outside of a Judson Fabian HR (#14) and a Gavin Lux (1 for his last 19) sac fly, the offense couldn't do anything against Luis Castillo, who came in with a 5.80 ERA but went 6 5 2 2 0 6 against them.

Game 2: The offense came back to life with 5 HRs and Blake Money bounced back in a big way from his first loss of the season as the Rays routed Cleveland 10-2. Nate Clark's 3-run HR in the 1st was the first of two for him as part of a 4-hit, 4-RBI night, giving him 29 on the season and snapping his recent slump. Jud Fabian went deep for the second straight night (#15), Yordan Alvarez had a 3-run shot (#25) to turn a 5-2 game into an 8-2 one, and Gavin Lux hit #31 with a man on. Meanwhile Money went to 17-1 by going 7 4 2 2 3 13, with the 13 whiffs being a season (and career) high. He threw 108 pitches and didn't look tired in his final inning in the 7th as he struck out the side. Evan Godwin and Jack Filby finished up.

Game 3: It was a wild, weird game that saw the Rays finally prevail 6-5 in 13 innings, but we got there in a strange way. It started out as a pitching matchup between two of the top young pitchers in the league, Alec Sachais and Cleveland's Hayden Durke, who came in at 11-4, 2.71. And as often happens, the matchup didn't live up to billing as it was 5-4 Cleveland in the 3rd inning. Ricky Widmar led off the game with #16 off Durke, and a few batters later Yordan Alvarez hit #26 to make it 3-0. But Sachais gave it right back with 5 runs in the next 2 innings including Austin Hendrick's 3rd HR in as many games in this series. Nate Clark hit #30 in the top of the 3rd to cut it to 5-4, and then the scoring basically stopped. Sachais settled down to go 6 6 5 5 0 7, and with the score still 5-4 in the 8th, Clark hit an inside-the-park homer for #31 to tie it. While all this was going on, Rays batters were striking out like they had holes in their bats. Cleveland pitching ended up with 22 whiffs over the 13 innings, including 5 apiece from Gavin Lux and Isaac DeLeon, both of whom tied the team record. Jud Fabian went down swinging 4 times as well. Meanwhile, Jhon Diaz was 4-6 with 3 stolen bases but somehow managed to neither score nor drive in a run. Anyway the bullpen was great as you'd imagine, not allowing a run in the last 7 innings and going 7 2 0 0 2 11 combined. Daniel Espino's 5 whiffs in 2 perfect innings led the way, and finally in the 13th Bobby Witt Jr singled in a run to put the Rays on top. Jack Leiter, who got out of a bases-loaded jam in the 12th, had a 1-2-3 13th to get win #11.

Game 4: The less said about this one the better as the Rays were trounced 12-3 by Cleveland. Shane McClanahan simply didn't have it, and was beaten up to the tune of 4 8 10 8 5 3. Oof. Including among the runs against him was a 3-run shot by former Rays catcher Ronaldo Hernandez, bag in the bigs after Cleveland suffered injuries to their top two catchers, Bo Naylor and Tyler Soderstrom. Jeremy Bowers gave up a couple of more runs in his 2 innings of pitching. Offensively the 3 runs came on a pair of homers, a solo shot by Luis Berdin (#3) and a 2-run jack from Gavin Lux (#31). Otherwise, it's burn-the-tape time.

Team record: 88-33. Next up: The road trip continues with 3 games in Toronto.

12-21-2020, 11:41 PM	#496
Art Deco Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2020 Posts: 7,568	August 14-17, 2028: at Cleveland (4) Game 1: Christian Little had one of his worst games of the season tonight and the bats did little to help in a 7-2 loss at Cleveland. Little was roughed up for 3 runs on 5 hits in the 1st inning and things didn't get much better from there, as he limped through to the tune of 5 8 5 5 1 5. After a couple of scoreless innings from Christian Chamberlain (who's really pitched well lately), Jack Filby had the Hyde version of one of his Jekyll/Hyde outings with 2 runs allowed in the 8th. But by then it was a lost cause as outside of a Judson Fabian HR (#14) and a Gavin Lux (1 for his last 19) sac fly, the offense couldn't do anything against Luis Castillo, who came in with a 5.80 ERA but went 6 5 2 2 0 6 against them. Game 2: The offense came back to life with 5 HRs and Blake Money bounced back in a big way from his first loss of the season as the Rays routed Cleveland 10-2. Nate Clark's 3-run HR in the 1st was the first of two for him as part of a 4-hit, 4-RBI night, giving him 29 on the season and snapping his recent slump. Jud Fabian went deep for the second straight night (#15), Yordan Alvarez had a 3-run shot (#25) to turn a 5-2 game into an 8-2 one, and Gavin Lux hit #31 with a man on. Meanwhile Money went to 17-1 by going 7 4 2 2 3 13, with the 13 whiffs being a season (and career) high. He threw 108 pitches and didn't look tired in his final inning in the 7th as he struck out the side. Evan Godwin and Jack Filby finished up. Game 3: It was a wild, weird game that saw the Rays finally prevail 6-5 in 13 innings, but we got there in a strange way. It started out as a pitching matchup between two of the top young pitchers in the league, Alec Sachais and Cleveland's Hayden Durke, who came in at 11-4, 2.71. And as often happens, the matchup didn't live up to billing as it was 5-4 Cleveland in the 3rd inning. Ricky Widmar led off the game with #16 off Durke, and a few batters later Yordan Alvarez hit #26 to make it 3-0. But Sachais gave it right back with 5 runs in the next 2 innings including Austin Hendrick's 3rd HR in as many games in this series. Nate Clark hit #30 in the top of the 3rd to cut it to 5-4, and then the scoring basically stopped. Sachais settled down to go 6 6 5 5 0 7, and with the score still 5-4 in the 8th, Clark hit an inside-the-park homer for #31 to tie it. While all this was going on, Rays batters were striking out like they had holes in their bats. Cleveland pitching ended up with 22 whiffs over the 13 innings, including 5 apiece from Gavin Lux and Isaac DeLeon, both of whom tied the team record. Jud Fabian went down swinging 4 times as well. Meanwhile, Jhon Diaz was 4-6 with 3 stolen bases but somehow managed to neither score nor drive in a run. Anyway the bullpen was great as you'd imagine, not allowing a run in the last 7 innings and going 7 2 0 0 2 11 combined. Daniel Espino's 5 whiffs in 2 perfect innings led the way, and finally in the 13th Bobby Witt Jr singled in a run to put the Rays on top. Jack Leiter, who got out of a bases-loaded jam in the 12th, had a 1-2-3 13th to get win #11. Game 4: The less said about this one the better as the Rays were trounced 12-3 by Cleveland. Shane McClanahan simply didn't have it, and was beaten up to the tune of 4 8 10 8 5 3. Oof. Including among the runs against him was a 3-run shot by former Rays catcher Ronaldo Hernandez, bag in the bigs after Cleveland suffered injuries to their top two catchers, Bo Naylor and Tyler Soderstrom. Jeremy Bowers gave up a couple of more runs in his 2 innings of pitching. Offensively the 3 runs came on a pair of homers, a solo shot by Luis Berdin (#3) and a 2-run jack from Gavin Lux (#31). Otherwise, it's burn-the-tape time. Team record: 88-33. Next up: The road trip continues with 3 games in Toronto. Last edited by Art Deco; 12-22-2020 at 02:42 PM.