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Art Deco · 06-13-2021, 09:36 AM

Game 1: The Rays blew a 3-2 lead late and ended up losing 4-3 in 11 innings at Truist Park against Atlanta. Danny Ayala (#35) and Atlanta's R.W. Tucker exchanged 2-run 1st-inning homers and we stayed that way until Jaiden Hardaway's bloop double in the 7th scored Ricky Widmar. The lead held until the bottom of the 9th when Kikuo Kawase, in a twist worthy of M. Night Shyamalan, got the lefties out but couldn't retire the righties and allowed the tying run. He gave up a walk and a double with one out in the 10th and Ronald Acuna Jr was intentionally walked to load the bases before Kevin Kerstetter was summoned in hope of a strikeout. Kersetter got two of them to escape the inning but gave up a 1-out homer to Treyjn Fletcher in the 11th and Atlanta had the walk-off win. Leo Ortega started and pitched well outside of that 1st-inning homer, going 5 4 2 2 0 8. Danny Medina, Mike Wherry (against his old team) and Tim Siqueiros pitched scoreless innings before Kawase blew it.

Game 2: Tampa Bay dropped its 5th straight game in NL ballparks as they fell for the second straight night 5-3 to Atlanta, this after being swept at Citi Field by the Mets. In fact if you want to add the 3 games in Columbus right before the Mets series, they've lost 7 of their last 8 interleague road games. Tonight it was a 2-2 tie once again going into the bottom of the 8th, and Danny Medina served up a homer to the ageless Ronald Acuna Jr., put another man on, and then gave up an RBI triple to Karson Bowen, who had earlier homered for Atlanta's first two runs. Billy Hoyte came in and gave up a double to score the 3rd run of the inning. The bullpen follies wasted a fine start from Andy Aparicio, who went 7 5 2 2 1 11. For the second straight night the offense was limited as they were blanked until Jon Jimenez blasted a 2-run HR (#17) in the 7th to tie it up. Bo Angeac hit a solo homer in the 9th (#20) but it was too little, too late.

Team record: 100-33. Next up: An off-day then we head north to Cleveland for 3 over the weekend.

06-13-2021, 09:36 AM	#993
Art Deco Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2020 Posts: 7,837	August 29-30, 2034: at Atlanta (2) Game 1: The Rays blew a 3-2 lead late and ended up losing 4-3 in 11 innings at Truist Park against Atlanta. Danny Ayala (#35) and Atlanta's R.W. Tucker exchanged 2-run 1st-inning homers and we stayed that way until Jaiden Hardaway's bloop double in the 7th scored Ricky Widmar. The lead held until the bottom of the 9th when Kikuo Kawase, in a twist worthy of M. Night Shyamalan, got the lefties out but couldn't retire the righties and allowed the tying run. He gave up a walk and a double with one out in the 10th and Ronald Acuna Jr was intentionally walked to load the bases before Kevin Kerstetter was summoned in hope of a strikeout. Kersetter got two of them to escape the inning but gave up a 1-out homer to Treyjn Fletcher in the 11th and Atlanta had the walk-off win. Leo Ortega started and pitched well outside of that 1st-inning homer, going 5 4 2 2 0 8. Danny Medina, Mike Wherry (against his old team) and Tim Siqueiros pitched scoreless innings before Kawase blew it. Game 2: Tampa Bay dropped its 5th straight game in NL ballparks as they fell for the second straight night 5-3 to Atlanta, this after being swept at Citi Field by the Mets. In fact if you want to add the 3 games in Columbus right before the Mets series, they've lost 7 of their last 8 interleague road games. Tonight it was a 2-2 tie once again going into the bottom of the 8th, and Danny Medina served up a homer to the ageless Ronald Acuna Jr., put another man on, and then gave up an RBI triple to Karson Bowen, who had earlier homered for Atlanta's first two runs. Billy Hoyte came in and gave up a double to score the 3rd run of the inning. The bullpen follies wasted a fine start from Andy Aparicio, who went 7 5 2 2 1 11. For the second straight night the offense was limited as they were blanked until Jon Jimenez blasted a 2-run HR (#17) in the 7th to tie it up. Bo Angeac hit a solo homer in the 9th (#20) but it was too little, too late. Team record: 100-33. Next up: An off-day then we head north to Cleveland for 3 over the weekend. Last edited by Art Deco; 06-13-2021 at 10:17 AM.