I give you the traditional Opening Day box, although it's grim reading:
The Rays laid an egg on Opening Day, one of the goose variety for the bats. They did manage 8 hits, but they truly were scattered by Lucas Giolito. It was business as usual failing to score for
Dustin May but not business as usual for May on the mound as he was hit hard in his 2027 debut. The only bright spot was that
Kelly Crumpton collected his first MLB hit.
Levi Abbott was impressive despite the line above as he put two men on to start the 6th and
Reid Detmers coughed up the first of two homers he allowed to score Abbott's runners.
In the second game the Rays finally put some runs on the board but still lost and went to 0-2 after being edged 5-4 by the White Sox.
Andrew Greckel homered for their first run of 2027 and had a big day with a triple and single as well, and
Alex Kirilloff was 3-4 with an RBI, but the bats went cold as soon as they fell behind and that was that.
Joe Ryan was not good, and whenever he's wild it's bad as he went 4.2 6 5 5 4 4.
In the finale the Rays were no-hit until the 6th and trailed 1-0 as it looked like 2027 was going to start 0-3. But the bats suddenly came alive and when the dust cleared they had an 8-2 win.
Victor Robles put them ahead 2-1 in the 7th with a 2-run single and then they broke it open with 5 in the 8th. After loading the bases with nobody out
Adley Rutschman drew a walk to force one in and then
Kelly Crumpton broke it open with a 2-run double, his first big hit as a Ray. Rutschman and Robles singled in additional runs and it was all enough to see
JT Ginn win his first start with the Rays after a couple of years in relief as he was impressive at 6.1 5 1 1 3 3. Robles stole two bases and was hit by a pitch twice in addition to his 2-3, 3-RBI day.
Team record: 1-2. Next up: The home-opening series against Texas.
MLB News: Jacob deGrom's return to the Mets was not a good one as after being hit hard in his season debut it turned out he had torn his flexor tendon and is done for the year.