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Rays allow Yankees to walk to an easy victory

May 20, 2019 general

Monday, 4 a.m. A game like this ought to come with a nuclear winter. A game like this ought to come with a mushroom crowd. With a Hazmat suit. With a media guide for the 2002 season. With ointment. The Rays suffered their biggest meltdown of the season Sunday, watching a 5-3 lead turn into […]

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Meadows, Alvarado lead Rays to an extra-inning win

May 19, 2019 general

Sunday, 4 a.m. He isn’t just a piece anymore. He isn’t just a talented backup singer. He isn’t a complementary player. These days, you could argue that Austin Meadows is the best Tampa Bay Ray of them all. Granted, he has just turned 24 years old. Yes, he has played in only 86 games. Already, […]

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Rays let the division lead slip through their fingers

May 18, 2019 general

Sunday, 4 a.m. Somewhere in the smoking rubble that was left after Jose Alvarado’s biggest meltdown of the season, the Rays’ claim on first place in the AL lies smoldering. And, man, was this one hard to take. Alvarado, who has been nearly perfect for most of the season, couldn’t stop a Yankees’ comeback Saturday […]

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Rays shut out Marlins once again to win

May 16, 2019 general

Thursday, 4 a.m. First things first. The Marlins are awful. Let’s agree on that. They’ve won just 10 games in a quarter of a season. They’re near the bottom in most of the measurable offensive statistics. Except for average, where they are all the way up to next-to-last. That said, the Rays completed a fairly […]

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Morton, Garcia team up to clobber Marlins

May 15, 2019 general

Wednesday, 4 a.m. It’s hard to say an undefeated pitcher returned to form Tuesday night. On the other hand, welcome back, Charlie Morton. Morton, despite a 4-0 record, came off a shaky start in a 4-0 victory over the Miami Marlins. In his previous game, Morton had allowed seven hits and four walks in five […]

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Rays have found a bit of trouble on their journey

May 14, 2019 general

Tuesday, 4 a.m. In his last innocent moments, before he went from a horse trying to hold on to a cheater, this is how Maximum Security must have felt. There was sweat and slop and noise, and this competitor was breathing down his neck, and that one was coming up on the outside, and it […]

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Rays struggle again in loss to New York Yankees

May 13, 2019 general

Monday, 4 a.m. Officially, the power outage lasted 43 minutes. Realistically, it’s been going on a lot longer than that. The Rays mini-slump continued Sunday when the Yankees broke open a game late to won 7-1. The Rays are just 3-4 in their last seven games and 5-6 since the start of May. It was […]

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Diaz’ power enables Rays to hold onto first place

May 12, 2019 general

Sunday, 4 a.m. He has muscles, okay? And those muscles have muscles. And those muscles have muscles. And these days, Yandy Diaz is flexing them for the world to see. Diaz put on a show Saturday night, homering to left, homering to right and hitting two deep fly balls to center to lead the Rays […]

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Rays lose, but concern over Glasnow is bigger

May 11, 2019 general

Saturday, 3 a.m. The division lead is in doubt. The bats have disappeared. The team cannot win a one-run game. But forget all of that for a moment. For the time being, the Rays’ immediate future is somewhere inside of Tyler Glasnow’s left arm. Glasnow left the game abruptly Friday night after 5 1/3 innings […]

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Rays have flashed their brain power so far

May 10, 2019 general

Friday, 4 a.m. Once again, they seem to be getting smarter. Once again, they are deep thinkers. In the good years of the Tampa Bay Rays, and there really haven’t been a lot of them, this was the ability that set them apart from richer, deeper baseball teams. Even if they didn’t outhit many teams, […]

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