Saturday, 3 a.m.
When they pitch, they compete.
For the Tampa Bay Rays, it is as simple as that. On the nights their bullpen is weak, or their starating pitfching does't clock, they can be had.
Ah, but when they pitch, the Rays are a pretty good baseball team.
The Rays played their eighth straight game giving up three runs or fewer Friday night, beating the San Francisco Giants 3-0. The Ryas have won seven of those games.
Shane McClanahan pitched six shutout innings and allowed just five hits. Ian Seymour, Cole Susler and Bryan Baker threw one shutout inning each. For Baker, it was his eighth save.
The Rays offense didn't hit it often, but they hit it along gway. Tampa Bay had just four hits of Giants' starter Robbie Ray, but they included solo home runs by Yandy Diaz and Junior Caminero and a double by Taylor Walls (who later scored on a sacrifice fly by Chandler Simpson.
Diaz left the game with tightness in his side and is day-to-day.
The Rays and Giants play again today at Tropicana Field at 6:10 p.m. Jesse Sholtens is expeed to start for teh Rays against Laneon Roupp.