This is really getting kind of silly, as the Rays erase a multiple-run deficit yet again in the late innings for a walk-off win. I guess the moral is that you better have a really good closer if he's going to get through 2 innings against the Rays' bats, because otherwise it'll be like it was for Jim Connors and Texas and like it was tonight for the Lightning and former Ray Jack Filby. Columbus took a 7-4 lead into the 8th, and Joe Barker, who had earlier hit a 3-run HR in the 1st off Delvis Alegre, his 6th of the postseason, hit #7 leading off the 8th against Filby. And that's 7 in only 10 postseason games. Filby got the next 3 in the 8th and the leadoff man in the 9th, but the Rays lineup caught up with him when Dane Ayers walked and was doubled to third by Ricky Widmar before Dayle Jenkins singled them both home to tie it up, Nate Clark walked, and then Barker stepped up again and came through with a single to score Jenkins and let the Rays walk it off for the third time in this year's postseason. Of course it was kind of wild how we got there; after Barker put the Rays up 3-0 with that 1st inning homer, Columbus stormed right back against Christian Little for 4 runs, capped by a 3-run homer from their walk-off hero and another former Ray Yordys Valdes, not really known for his power having hit 6 homers in 511 AB this season. Caleb Picciotti tripled in the bottom of the 2nd and scored on an Ayers groundout to tie it up, and that's where we stayed until the usually reliable Rays pen was anything but that tonight. Andy Aparicio gave up a 7th inning homer to Trent Deveaux, having a big postseason for Columbus, and then after putting a man on in the 8th, Evan Godwin relieved him and gave up a 2-run homer to Aaron Nixon to make it 7-4 Columbus. Corbin Martin came on and loaded the bases before getting out of it, and got the first out of the 9th before Mike Mooney got the final two and ended up with the win. Contrary to the recap accompanying the box score above, Jon Hayes will start Game 2 tomorrow.