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Art Deco · 10-20-2024, 10:23 PM

Ah, ah, ah, ah, stayin' alive...

After 3 innings and another rough start from Ricky Tiedemann which quickly put them down 3-0 the Rays were heading to the gallows, ready to lick their wounds for a winter of introspection. They may yet be headed there, but it won't be for a least a couple of more days as they bounced back against Detroit ace Eric Groth to take a 10-4 win and bring the series back to St. Petersburg for a Game 6. Kyle Teel's 2-run double in the 6th gave them new life at 3-3, and the AI Detroit manager left Groth in well past his sell-by date as he was over 105 pitches when Owen Paino singled in the go-ahead run and at 112 when Mike Brown took him yard to make it 6-3. And after Detroit cut the lead to 6-4 the Rays broke it open in the 8th in a most unusual fashion: with two out and nobody on rookie Camron Gentry, who made his MLB debut the night before as a pinch-hitter, batted for the struggling Jeffry Rosa and delivered a single up the middle and seven unretired batters later Tampa Bay had 4 more runs. The lefty-swinging Gentry is the polar opposite of the slugging-with-very-low-contact Rosa, he's 80 contact against righties but 35 power. So it's the Trop to which we return and here's hoping Emiliano Teodo can duplicate his excellent Game 2 outing.

10-20-2024, 10:23 PM	#206
Art Deco Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2020 Posts: 7,313	October 25, 2031 Ah, ah, ah, ah, stayin' alive... After 3 innings and another rough start from Ricky Tiedemann which quickly put them down 3-0 the Rays were heading to the gallows, ready to lick their wounds for a winter of introspection. They may yet be headed there, but it won't be for a least a couple of more days as they bounced back against Detroit ace Eric Groth to take a 10-4 win and bring the series back to St. Petersburg for a Game 6. Kyle Teel's 2-run double in the 6th gave them new life at 3-3, and the AI Detroit manager left Groth in well past his sell-by date as he was over 105 pitches when Owen Paino singled in the go-ahead run and at 112 when Mike Brown took him yard to make it 6-3. And after Detroit cut the lead to 6-4 the Rays broke it open in the 8th in a most unusual fashion: with two out and nobody on rookie Camron Gentry, who made his MLB debut the night before as a pinch-hitter, batted for the struggling Jeffry Rosa and delivered a single up the middle and seven unretired batters later Tampa Bay had 4 more runs. The lefty-swinging Gentry is the polar opposite of the slugging-with-very-low-contact Rosa, he's 80 contact against righties but 35 power. So it's the Trop to which we return and here's hoping Emiliano Teodo can duplicate his excellent Game 2 outing.