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Art Deco · 07-23-2023, 04:14 PM

The Rays Meat Loafed New York and are at least back at .500, trailing the first-place Jays by 1 1/2 games.

Chris Ferguson was outstanding in the opener and he had to be as the offense didn't give him much to work with in a 2-0 win. The righty evened his record at 1-1 after going 6.1 4 0 0 3 7 and the bullpen did its job with Mike Moore handling the 9th for his 3rd save. Not too many highlights with the bats but Luis Berumen was 2-4 with an RBI, a first-inning sac fly that scored the winning run.

After taking most of the previous day off the bats came back in a big way in the second game and the Rays took a not-as-close-as-it-looked 10-6 win over the Yankees. Despite the final score this game actually was a 0-0 pitchers' duel through 5 before the Rays erupted for 8 runs in the 6th inning with Jake Westfall doing most of the damage. The CF blasted a 3-run homer (#3) his first time up and then capped the frame with a 2-run single giving him a 5-RBI inning which might be a team record if we kept track of such things. William Contreras (#2) and Luis Berumen (#5) added solo homers later and it was a good thing. That's because Joe Marlette, who no-hit the Yankees through 6, left after giving up a leadoff triple in the 7th and with the huge lead the back end of the pen was given the ball and failed miserably. Jeff Coblentz made his Rays debut and gave up a pair of homers, one of which was with Marlette's man on, and then Randy Morris gave up 3 more runs on two more homers before Chris Ericson finally calmed things down. Marlette (1-2) was absolutely brilliant, finishing 6 1 1 1 1 13.

When you have a pitch-to-contact guy like Joe Scheu there are going to be days when the balls find all the holes and today was one such day as the Yankees took the finale 6-2. Scheu (2-1) was a brutal 3.1 10 6 6 1 1 and giving up a pair of homers didn't help either. Both Rays runs came on a 2-run Joe Stack homer (#4) which gave Tampa Bay the briefest of leads in the 2nd.

Team record: 8-8. Next up: We get a chance to make up some ground on Toronto when we visit the Jays for 3 after an off-day.

07-23-2023, 04:14 PM	#1221
Art Deco Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2020 Posts: 7,681	April 16-18, 2035: at NY Yankees (3) The Rays Meat Loafed New York and are at least back at .500, trailing the first-place Jays by 1 1/2 games. Chris Ferguson was outstanding in the opener and he had to be as the offense didn't give him much to work with in a 2-0 win. The righty evened his record at 1-1 after going 6.1 4 0 0 3 7 and the bullpen did its job with Mike Moore handling the 9th for his 3rd save. Not too many highlights with the bats but Luis Berumen was 2-4 with an RBI, a first-inning sac fly that scored the winning run. After taking most of the previous day off the bats came back in a big way in the second game and the Rays took a not-as-close-as-it-looked 10-6 win over the Yankees. Despite the final score this game actually was a 0-0 pitchers' duel through 5 before the Rays erupted for 8 runs in the 6th inning with Jake Westfall doing most of the damage. The CF blasted a 3-run homer (#3) his first time up and then capped the frame with a 2-run single giving him a 5-RBI inning which might be a team record if we kept track of such things. William Contreras (#2) and Luis Berumen (#5) added solo homers later and it was a good thing. That's because Joe Marlette, who no-hit the Yankees through 6, left after giving up a leadoff triple in the 7th and with the huge lead the back end of the pen was given the ball and failed miserably. Jeff Coblentz made his Rays debut and gave up a pair of homers, one of which was with Marlette's man on, and then Randy Morris gave up 3 more runs on two more homers before Chris Ericson finally calmed things down. Marlette (1-2) was absolutely brilliant, finishing 6 1 1 1 1 13. When you have a pitch-to-contact guy like Joe Scheu there are going to be days when the balls find all the holes and today was one such day as the Yankees took the finale 6-2. Scheu (2-1) was a brutal 3.1 10 6 6 1 1 and giving up a pair of homers didn't help either. Both Rays runs came on a 2-run Joe Stack homer (#4) which gave Tampa Bay the briefest of leads in the 2nd. Team record: 8-8. Next up: We get a chance to make up some ground on Toronto when we visit the Jays for 3 after an off-day.