Wednesday, 3 a.m.

Stop them if you’ve heard this before.

The bullpen of the Tampa Bay Rays is still leaky.

The Rays dropped a 4-2 game to Detroit — their fourth loss in five games — when, once again, their relief corps could not make a narrow lead hold up late. This time, the losing pitcher was Colin Poche, who gave up three runs and three hits in his one inning of work.

Content beyond this point is for members only.

Already a member? To view the rest of this column, sign in using the handy "Sign In" button located in the upper right corner of the GarySheltonSports.com blog (it's at the far right of the navigation bar under Gary's photo). Not a member? It's easy to subscribe so you can view the rest of this column and all other premium content on GarySheltonSports.com.

Tampa Bay, which struggled offensively most of the night, had finally taken a 2-1 lead on Isaac Paredes’ sixth home run in the sixth inning. But two innings later, the Tigers got home runs from Riley Greene (his second of the night) and Mark Canha to take the lead.

The Rays wasted a good starting performance from Ryan Pepiot, who gave up just three hits and one run in his six innings.

The Rays had just six hits, and none of them on the seven at-bats they had with runners in scoring position.

The Rays have now lost 13 games this season, and six of them have been by the bullpen.

Tampa Bay and Detroit will play the final game of their three-game series tonight at 6:50 p.m.

 Tyler Alexander will start for the Rays against Detroit’s Jack Flaherty.

Tuesday, 4 a.m.

The less said about this one, the better.

The Tampa Bay Rays were clobbered Monday night, losing a 7-1 rout to the Detroit Tigers and pitcher Tarik Skubal. It was the team’s third loss in its last four games and sent them back to the .500 level at 12-12.

The Rays could barely touch Skubal, who threw six innings and allowed just three hits. He struck out nine.

The Rays’ Zach Littell, on the other hand, gave up nine hits and five earned runs in his six innings. The Rays fell behind 3-0 in the first two innings and never challenged. They went 0-for-3 with runners in scoring position.

Amed Rosario had two of the Rays’ six hits and extended his hitting streak to 14 games. In nine of the 14 games, Rosario has had multi-hits.

The Rays will start Ryan Pepiot in tonight’s game against the Tigers (6:50 p.m.). The Tigers will counter with Kenta Maeda,

Monday, 4 a.m.

There are terrible places to forget how to play baseball.

Standing on the mound at Yankee Stadium is one of them.

Aaron Civale, in the middle of a pretty good pitching performance, had his control abandon him in the fifth inning of a 5-4 loss.

Pitching in a 1-1 tie, Civale got the first two batters (Juan Soto and Aaron Judge) of the inning. But then he walked three straight batters on 19 pitches. After that, he gave up three straight hits on three pitches.

The Rays made another attempt at a comback, trimming the deficit to one run, but could not pull into a tie.

The Rays open a home series with the Tigers Monday at 6:50 p.m. at Tropicana Field. Zack Littell will start fo the Rays against Tarik Skubal..