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Rays on top of the world after sweeping Yanks

August 21, 2020 general

Friday, 4 a.m. From here, you can see the playoffs. From here, you can see success and awards and pay raises. From here, you can seehope and belief and resiliency. From here, you can see possibilities. The season is four games away from the halfway point, but here stand the Tampa Bay Rays, surging and […]

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Point’s goal helps Bolts send Jackets home

August 20, 2020 general

Thursday, 4 a.m. Now that the Tampa Bay Lightning are headed to the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, it’s clear who it is that is Pointing the way. Brayden Point, a 24-year-old forward, added to his history of big goals Wednesday afternoon, scoring with 5:12 gone in overtime to lift the Lightning to […]

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Rays close East race with a win over Yankees

August 20, 2020 general

Thursday, 4 a.m. In the immortal words of King Kong, what’s the big deal about New York? Sometimes, the Big Apple isn’t so intimidating, after all. Just ask the surging Tampa Bay Rays, who won their second straight game at Yankee Stadium Wednesday night. In all, the Rays have beaten the Yankees five of six […]

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Once again, Lowe powers the Rays to victory

August 19, 2020 general

Tuesday, 4 a.m. This time, the bomber was only visiting the Bronx. This time, just like last time, Brandon Lowe brought his fireworks show to Yankee Stadium. Lowe cranked his fifth home run in six games Tuesday night to lead the Tampa Bay Rays to a 6-3 victory over New York at Yankee Stadium. It […]

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Lightning holds fiercely to lead to go up 3-1

August 18, 2020 general

Tuesday, 4 a.m. What’s as good as a comeback win? How about a close-out? For the second straight game, players of the Tampa Bay Lightning turned into guard dogs once they had a lead, holding onto a 2-1 lead that put the team up 3-1 in the team’s best of seven playoff series. Just as […]

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Late home runs lead to a sweep by Rays

August 17, 2020 general

Monday, 4 a.m. Willy Adames is a huge fan of teammate Brandon Lowe’s. After Sunday, we may assume that Lowe is a huge fan of Adames, too. Together, the middle infielders powered the Rays to two close victories over the Toronto Blue Jays Sunday in Buffalo. Lowe hit a home run in the ninth inning […]

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Rays game suspended against Blue Jays

August 16, 2020 general

Sunday, 3 a.m. Score one for the lightning over the Tampa Bay Rays. Weather suspended the Rays’ game Saturday against the Toronto Blue Jays in the botto the fourth inning with the Rays leading 1-0. The game will be resumed today at 1:07 p.m. The teams will play the rest of the nine-inning game, followed […]

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Defense gives Lightning a 2-1 series lead

August 15, 2020 general

Sunday, 4 a.m. This time, it wasn’t about how many shots the other goalie stopped. It was about how few that Lightning goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy had to. Vasilevskiy could have spent most of Saturday’s game playing video games on his iPhone in Saturday’s 3-2 victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets, a win that gave the […]

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Blue Jays overpower Rays to stop streak

August 15, 2020 general

Saturday, 4 a.m. The truth of it is that the Tampa Bay Rays ran out of pitchers long before they got to infielder Mike Brousseau Friday night. The Rays, plagued with injuries and mounting games, tried to pull off one of their “jigsaw puzzle” games Friday night, but they couldn’t keep the Toronto Blue Jays […]

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Lightning can’t solve Korpisalo in defeat

August 14, 2020 general

Friday, 4 a.m. If you want to measure the difference between the Tampa Bay Lightning and the victorious Columbus Blue Jackets, you can start small. “A half-second away” is how Ryan McDonaugh termed it. “A half-stride away.” “Two seconds here, two seconds there,” said Alex Killorn. The real distance in the Lightning’s 3-1 Game Two […]

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