Saturday, 4 a.m. Perhaps no one on the Rays is paid enough to get Shohei Ohtani out in a crucial situation. Certainly, Colin Poche was not up to the task in the bottom of the ninth inning. Ohtani hammered Poche’s first pitch over the right field wall for a game-winning, walkoff grand slam. It was […]

Friday, 4 a.m. Remember those glory days of last week. You know, back before the Rays’ bats got sick again. The Rays lost a 3-1 game to the Oakland A’s Thursday, and frankly, the team was lucky to get a split of its four-game series. While the pitching was sharp, the bats once again turned […]

Wednesday, 4 a.m. If you were holding out for a hero, his was perhaps the last name you would guess. Jose Siri, benched and belittled in recent days, hit an eighth-inning home run with two out to lift the Rays to a 1-0 victory over the Oakland A’s. Siri hadn’t had a hit in eight […]

Monday, 4 a.m. Even in the fireworks of the moment, even after a newly achieved sweep of a good opponent, there was a dark cloud over the Tampa Bay Rays Sunday evening. Had they broken reliever Pete Fairbanks? Fairbanks, the Rays’ usually reliable closer, blew his second straight save opportunity and was injured in a […]