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• Rays 2, Twins 4: Hello .500, my old friend

Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images Rays drop a close one to snap six game win streak The Tampa Bay Rays and Minnesota Twins faced off on Tuesday night in game two of this three game set and played a close, entertaining game. The Twins eventually emerged with the win behind a strong Joe Ryan start and some timely hitting. The Rays got a strong start from Taj Bradley and had their chances ...2025
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• Player of the Series: Junior Caminero

Photo by Mark Taylor/Getty Images A sweep made this a hard decision. There were a lot of candidates for the Rays player of the series, as it should be when you sweep a division rival. Ryan Pepiot pitched 7 scoreless, Brandon Lowe homered in his third straight game, but Junior Caminero truly showed up to play, essentially batting .500 over the weekend while playing some dazzling defense. I...2025
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• Player of the Series: Curtis Mead

Kim Klement Neitzel-Imagn Images Curtis Mead is having one of the hottest stretches of his career The Tampa Bay Rays may have finally solved George Steinbrenner Field. Tampa Bay has now won four of their last six contests at home, including their last two games against the Houston Astros and they only lost Monday’s game by one run after stranding the tying run on third base. A large part o...2025
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• Rays 8, Astros 4: Bouncing back on the rubber match

Jonathan Dyer-Imagn Images The Rays wrap it up with a series win. On the afternoon getaway day game, with the series tied 1-1, the Rays were hoping to come away with a series win before seeing the Blue Jays again for the second time this month. The Astros had been tough competition this series, and this game wouldn’t prove to be an easy one. Taj Bradley was on the mound for the Rays, while...2025
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• Rays 4, Astros 3: Walls walks it off to complete comeback

Kim Klement Neitzel-Imagn Images It’s great to see some fight! What looked like it would be another quiet night for the Rays offense turned out to be an exciting comeback victory to even the series against Houston. Jose Caballero made his first start in center field, and Zack Littell looked to continue his run of better form. See HOU for game 2 pic.twitter.com/pyCJhl5xJq— Tampa Bay Ra...2025
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• Rays 3 Astros 4: Chandler Simpson, steal home!

Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images Is it better to stage a comeback and then watch the game slip away? Or to never come back at all? The first four innings of this game were all Astros. They scored three runs in the first two innings, but had runners on base in the other innings (their only one-two-three inning was the eighth). They could well have scored more but Danny Jansen was able to cat...2025
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• Player of the Series: Drew Rasmussen

Photo by Megan Briggs/Getty Images Six shutout innings helped pave the way to the Rays lone victory of the series The Tampa Bay Rays lost a series to the Miami Marlins for the first time since 2018. Nothing really went right for the team and even in the game they won, Chandler Simpson’s face paid the price. When looking for a player that performed the best, only two hitters had a wRC+ over...2025
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• Player of the Series: Brandon Lowe

Photo by Vaughn Ridley/Getty Images Lowe capped off an eventful series with a two homerun game on Thursday During the Rays three game series victory over the Toronto Blue Jays, veteran second baseman Brandon Lowe broke out of a weeks long slump. Entering play on Tuesday, Lowe had seven hits over his last 52 PA and was hitting .152/.250/.304 over that span (13 games); during this series aga...2025
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• Rays 1, Padres 0: A True Pitcher’s Duel

Chadd Cady-Imagn Images Kameron Misner’s defensive heroics sealed the deal Following two consecutive dramatic extra-inning wins, the Rays hoped to continue their string of good luck into San Diego. The Padres came into tonight’s contest leading the National League West by a half a game over the Giants and a game over the Dodgers. For the Friars, it was 29-year-old Michael King, who enjoyed...2025
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• Player of the Series: Chandler Simpson

Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images One of the top prospects in baseball notched his first big league hit during the series It didn’t take long for Chandler Simpson to prove he was the fastest player in baseball. Simpson’s game shattering speed made waves around the game on Sunday as he scorched a ground ball to the right side of the infield. Yankees first baseman, Paul Goldschmidt, knew he ha...2025
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• Player of the Series: Shane Baz

Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images Baz has been among the best starting pitchers in baseball early on Shane Baz only has three starts this year but he emerged as an early season candidate for the American League Cy Young award. The 25-year old former top prospect has been fantastic for the Rays this season and was no exception on Monday as he dominated the Boston Red Sox during the series...2025
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• Rays announce Opening Day roster for 2025

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images Misner makes the team following Palacios’s broken finger. The Rays have announced the Opening Day roster, reacting to the injury for Richie Palacios to start the season due to a broken finger, and confirming that both catchers are good to go following Spring Training injury scares. Here’s how the Rays Roster will typically be constructed: * left-handed hi...2025
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• Rays Opening Day roster for 2025 appears set

Mason Englert wins the bullpen competition. | Photo by Brian Spurlock/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Pending no further injuries, the Rays roster is ready for Opening Day. After several roster moves, the Rays lineup appears to be set. Here’s the latest projection for Opening Day. * left-handed hitter** switch hitter Starting Lineup C — Danny Jansen 1B — Yandy Diaz 2B — Brandon Lowe* 3B ...2025
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• Rays Your Voice: Rays sign Ha-Seong Kim

Orlando Ramirez-Imagn Images A surprise? Yes, but a welcome one. Just when we thought the Rays were done and the roster was set for the upcoming season, they go out and sign Ha-Seong Kim to one of the largest free agent contracts in franchise history. Kim’s addition shakes up what we thought the shortstop depth chart looked like, with Taylor Walls’ playing time most in jeopardy. Kim will ...2025
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• Rays sign SS Ha-Seong Kim to two-year deal

David Frerker-Imagn Images Kim will be slowed by a shoulder injury to start the year. The Tampa Bay Rays have reportedly signed the top free-agent short stop available on a short-term deal this off-season, picking up 29-year old Ha-Seong Kim (김하성) one a two-year deal. Kim is currently recovering from a shoulder surgery that likely slows his start to the season, but once he arrives should ...2025
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• AL Week 9 Strategy-May 18, 2024
In The Field OF Byron Buxton (knee) started a rehab assignment on Wednesday. He went 0-3 with 2 K's but was playing centerfield which is a good sign after spending last year as a DH. He was activated on Saturday and OF Austin Martin was optioned to Triple-A. He hit The issue with Buxton is no longer just injury-related. His skills have declined. He has seen his strikeout rate increase (32% K) an...2024
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• Rays 1, Padres 0: A True Pitcher’s Duel
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• The Rays pummel the White Sox, so let’s tour Chicago together

Michael Soroka does nothing Monday night against the Rays. | Julio Aguilar/Getty Images Only minimal highlights for a game that sucked absolute butt Happy Tuesday, White Sox friends. You’d be in for a doozy of a recap today, because this game doesn’t deserve your attention, so you’ve earned a little treat for being such a graceful and loyal South Sider. Cubs fans could never (without the ...2024
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• Player of the Series: Drew Rasmussen
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• Player of the Series: Travis Jankowski

Photo by Kelly Gavin/Getty Images The journeyman outfielder made his presence known this past weekend A month ago, the Chicago White Sox, a team that was historically awful in 2024 and off to an abysmal 2025 start, didn’t believe having Travis Jankowski on their active roster made them a better team. He was designated for assignment on April 6th, cleared waivers, and accepted his assignmen...2025
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• Rays 3, Yankees 2: Rays Snap Skid

Wendell Cruz-Imagn Images Taylor Walls and Curtis Mead pack the punch as Rays win in the Bronx New York, New York. “That’s Life”, by Frank Sinatra would play as patrons leave Yankee Stadium today, as the Rays win a nail-biter 3-2. The scoring started with Aaron Judge homering on the first Zack Littell offering he saw to get the Yankees jump-started 1-0. In the following half inning, T...2025
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• Rays 4, Padres 2: The sweep smell of success

Denis Poroy-Imagn Images The Rays closed out their series in San Diego with a sweep. The Padres are heavily considered to be one of the hottest teams in baseball this season, but between dropping two of three to the Detroit Tigers during the week, then losing the first two games of the series to the Rays, they’re not quite living up to the hype they were generating a couple weeks ago. Toda...2025
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• Player of the Series: Shane Baz
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• Player of the Series: Joe Boyle

Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images Five no-hit innings from a spot-starter is a nice surprise Joe Boyle might just have the nastiest arsenal in all of baseball. A ridiculous fastball that ranks among the league’s best with secondary pitches that are among the top of the charts in movement and velocity. Command has been the issue for Boyle and has held him back from joining the upper echelon ...2025
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• Player of the Series: Jose Caballero

Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images Caballero’s grand slam gave the Rays their lone victory of the series It was a series worth forgetting for the Tampa Bay Rays as they lost two of the three games to the Los Angeles Angels. However, the middle game of the set did feature a bright spot as Jose Caballero launched the first grand slam of his career and the Rays needed every run it provided as th...2025
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• Rays Opening Day roster for 2025 appears set
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• Rays Your Voice: Rays sign Ha-Seong Kim
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• Rays sign SS Ha-Seong Kim to two-year deal
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• Rays 8, Astros 4: Bouncing back on the rubber match
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• One Pitch, Three Runs, No Reward: Rays 1, Blue Jays 3

Photo by Cole Burston/Getty Images One swing erased five innings of brilliance from Pepiot in a painful loss. One strike away. That’s how close Ryan Pepiot was, not once but twice, to escaping the sixth inning unscathed on Wednesday night in Toronto. Instead, one 0-2 pitch turned a night of promise into another gut-punch loss for the Tampa Bay Rays. Alejandro Kirk, down to his final strike...2025
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• Rays 1, Padres 0: A True Pitcher’s Duel
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• Player of the Series: Joe Boyle
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• Rays 5 Angels 4: A home run for everyone

Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images We knew that Tropicana Field East had been modeled after that ballpark in the Bronx, with right field dimensions very friendly to home run hitters, but this is the first game we have really seen it in action. If you love the long ball, I guess you’ll enjoy this year. Tonight’s game featured 6 homeruns! Only two belonged to the Rays, but since one of those w...2025
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• The 5 worst Cubs games of 2024

Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images You probably don’t want to remember these, but here we are. There have been other years when I’ve posted a number of blowout losses in this annual recap. In some ways, those are easier to take, a team runs up a huge score against the Cubs but it still counts for only one loss. Other times I’ve filled these with soul-crushing defeats. This time, I’m going...2024
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• Baseball Savant’s new baserunning stats are revealing for Royals

Cool slide, Bobby | Peter Aiken-Imagn Images Bobby Witt Jr.’s baserunning in 2024 was a bit controversial among Royals fans, what does Baseball Savant tell us? One of the most fun things about being a modern baseball fan is all the new data we get access to all the time. One of the most fun sources of that data comes from Baseball Savant, a free website provided by MLB that allows fans to ...2024
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• 2024 Silver Sunburst Awards: April edition RESULTS

Jonathan Dyer-USA TODAY Sports The votes are in! Here are your April winners! After a week of voting, the results are in for your inaugural Silver Sunburst Award winners! While April may not have been the month many fans were hoping for, there are certainly standout performers deserving of our monthly Silver Sunburst. Winners were decided by DRB readers votes, as well as a vote within the ...2024
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• 2024 Silver Sunburst Awards: April edition VOTING

You decide who had the best month of April! “Sunburst Awards” is a series-by-series evaluation of player performance, where four different awards are given out after each series: Offensive player of the series, defensive player of the series, pitcher of the series, and highlight play of the series. This is the first edition of Silver Sunburst Awards in which readers will vote on who had the best m...2024
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• Rays 2, Angels 1: A low-scoring win gives Rays a series W

Nathan Ray Seebeck-USA TODAY Sports It was an early scoring, close game, but a win is a win is a win. The Thursday day game saw Pepiot take on Canning, so let’s see how that unfolded at hope at the Trop. In the top of the first, the Angels went down in order. The Rays wasted no time getting on the board in the bottom of the inning as Richie Palacios drew a walk, and then Amed Rosario tripl...2024
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• Rays 8, Astros 4: Bouncing back on the rubber match
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• One Pitch, Three Runs, No Reward: Rays 1, Blue Jays 3
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• Rays 11, Blue Jays 9: Rollercoaster ride north of the border

Nick Turchiaro-Imagn Images They should try scoring 11 runs every night. My last two recaps have come at the start of home stands. Thank you to our managing editor Danny Russell for allowing me to recap the start of a road trip, where the magic will happen this season. Before the game, we learned that Yandy Diaz would not be accompanying the team to Toronto because of a passport issue. He...2025
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• Brewers drop another close game, 3-2, on Jankowski walk-off

Kim Klement Neitzel-Imagn Images Brewers bullpen can’t deliver for second consecutive game For the second time in as many games, the Brewers played well enough to win for most of the game. For the second time in as many games, the bullpen and the bats couldn’t close it out. Today’s game was postponed about half an hour due to a rain delay, and both teams looked slightly rusty through the ...2025
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• Rays 7, D-Backs 6: A Thriller in the Desert

Rick Scuteri-Imagn Images Local stingray goes through a roller coaster of emotions This game had everything: Multiple lead changes Three hits from Yandy Diaz Dingers Kameron Misner getting tagged out after popping up from a slide MTV’s Dan Cortez Jokes aside, this win did not come easy. A dramatic double play with the bases loaded in the top of the 11th inning is what it took to cap this...2025
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• Player of the Series: Chandler Simpson
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• Rays 10, Yankees 8: So You’re Telling Me There’s a Chance..?

Jonathan Aranda’s eventful day caps off a four-run rally in the ninth What. A. Game. wheeeeeee! pic.twitter.com/hJnJOfPWJG— Sarah Langs (@SlangsOnSports) April 19, 2025 From start to finish, Tampa Bay had to gut today’s ballgame out. Chandler Simpson made his debut, as he started in centerfield and hit leadoff. Simpson had about 10 family and friends that he left tickets for, and a few more...2025
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• Rays 1, Royals 8: Rays fail to score after first inning

Kim Klement Neitzel-USA TODAY Sports And fail to win after the ninth. Happy Friday, friends! It was time for a nacho party in Randyland as Seth Lugo and Shawn Armstrong squared off (with Armstrong only out for two innings), so let’s see how things went down at the Trop tonight. The Royals went 1-2-3 in the top of the first. In the bottom half Brandon Lowe got a one-out single, then Jonny ...2024
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• 2024 Sunburst Awards: New York Yankees games 39-41

Kim Klement Neitzel-USA TODAY Sports Rays fall to 20-21 after three game series at Tropicana Field “Sunburst Awards” is a series-by-series evaluation of player performance, where four different awards are given out after each series: Offensive player of the series, defensive player of the series, pitcher of the series, and highlight play of the series. This edition will be covering the 13...2024
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• How the Rays went 38 games without being shutout

Kim Klement Neitzel-USA TODAY Sports An analysis of the Rays impossible run to start 2024. Entering the Rays’ series opener against the New York Yankees on Friday, 28 of the 30 Major League teams had been shut out at least once. The only two that hadn’t been shutout? The Atlanta Braves and the Tampa Bay Rays. The Braves not having been shut out is no doubt impressive, but it’s easier to ex...2024
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• Jared Shuster impresses as Braves beat Mariners
Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Shuster allowed just a solo home run over six innings. Jared Shuster turned in the best start of his young career to help lead the Atlanta Braves to a 3-2 win over the Seattle Mariners. Shuster worked a scoreless first inning and then the Braves got started quickly against George Kirby to get him a run. Ronald Acuña Jr. singled to l...2023
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• The 5 worst Cubs games of 2024
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• Rays Anticipate Jose Caballero, Rene Pinto Taking Starting Roles
Rays president of baseball operations Erik Neander spoke with reporters yesterday at the opening of the team’s Spring Training camp. He addressed a pair of positions of relative uncertainty as the season approaches: shortstop and catcher. At the former, Neander suggested the team anticipates José Caballero opening the year as the starter (link via Marc Topkin…...2024
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• Lorenzen sharp, Fermin tough as Royals beat Rays 3-1

Kim Klement Neitzel-Imagn Images The Royals have won 7 of 8. Michael Lorenzen was sharp over six innings and the offense did just enough to defeat the Rays 3-1 on Tuesday night. The Royals have won seven of eight and have climbed back to .500 on the year. The Royals jumped on the board in the first inning. Leadoff hitter Jonathan India singled to start the game, then advanced to second on...2025
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• Mariners Notes: Caballero, Wong, Moore, Bullpen
Rookie infielder Jose Caballero’s initial call-up to the Mariners’ roster was expected to be a short-term stint to provide some depth while utilityman Sam Haggerty dealt with a concussion, but he’s parlaying that opportunity into a larger role. As Ryan Divish of the Seattle Times writes, he’s already made a strong impression on manager Scott…...2023
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• Braves News: Braves add Luis Guillorme, avoid arbitration with Huascar Ynoa, and more

Photo by Dustin Satloff/Getty Images Atlanta Braves news and notes from Friday The Atlanta Braves kept up their busy offseason with another pair of moves on Friday night. The club signed infielder Luis Guillorme to a one-year deal and avoided arbitration with right-hander Huascar Ynoa. #Braves signed INF Luis Guillorme to a 1-year, $1.1 million deal, and avoided arb with pitcher Huascar...2024
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• Julio Rodriguez single handedly wins a baseball game, beats Royals 6-4.

Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images On the bright side, what a battle between Bobby and J-Rod As noted in today’s game thread, this series has been crazy. Staying true to brand, it ended with another wild one. The final score might not look it, but today’s game featured: Three errors A slowpitch softball-style double that sailed over MJ Melendez’s head and could have been easily been an er...2023
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• Mariners Still Exploring Infield, Bullpen Markets
It’s been an active two weeks for the Mariners, who’ve recently signed Mitch Garver to a two-year deal and shipped out Robbie Ray and Jose Caballero in trades that brought Mitch Haniger, Anthony DeSclafani and Luke Raley back to Seattle. President of baseball operations Jerry Dipoto said this weekend that while his team feels more…...2024
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• AL Week 9 Strategy-May 18, 2024
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• The Rays pummel the White Sox, so let’s tour Chicago together
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• AL Week 10 Strategy-May 27, 2023
In The Field OF Max Kepler (hamstring) was able to take pregame BP on Friday. He will likely need a short rehab assignment prior to returning because he has been out since May 11. 2B Jorge Polanco (hamstring) was also able to take pregame BP. He will need to be able to run at full speed prior to being activated which means that it is unlikely that he returns when first eligible on May 30. OF Ada...2023
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• Player of the Series: Junior Caminero
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• Player of the Series: Drew Rasmussen
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• Player of the Series: Brandon Lowe
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• Rays 2, Brewers 4: Don’t call it a comeback

Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images Because there wasn’t one. Despite a little weather (who ever thought we would see the day that weather delays would happen in Tampa!? I miss you, sweet, sweet Dome.) When the game finally did get underway about an hour after its originally scheduled start time, it was Drew Rasmussen on the mound for the Rays up against Chad Patrcik for the Brewers. The Bre...2025
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• Rays 4, Brewers 3: At Last

Dave Nelson-Imagn Images Rays gut out a one-run game against Milwaukee’s best For the first time since April 19, the Tampa Bay Rays have won a home game. It didn’t come without any drama, however. Although the Rays went 0-11 with runners in scoring position on the evening, the Flappy Boys found a way with the penultimate run coming by way of a bases loaded Taylor Walls walk in the bott...2025
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• Player of the Series: Taylor Walls

Photo by Ryan Levy/MLB Photos via Getty Images The best defender in all of baseball came through offensively for the Rays It’s only May, but it seemed like the Tampa Bay Rays had to win this series against the New York Yankees in order to keep their season hopes alive. After a crushing 3-0 defeat on Friday, it seemed like those hopes were dashed. However, thanks to our Player of the Series...2025
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• Rays 3, Yankees 2: Rays Snap Skid
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• Player of the Series: Mason Englert

Photo by Cliff Welch/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Mason Englert provided some much needed coverage from the bullpen The Tampa Bay Rays did not play well during their past series against the Kansas City Royals. They lost all three games and only managed to score a total of three runs during the series. The pitching did what it could to keep the games close with the exception of Thursday...2025
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• Player of the Series: Chandler Simpson

Photo by Ryan Levy/MLB Photos via Getty Images Offensively or defensively, there is no stopping Chandler Simpson When a minor league prospect makes that jump to the big leagues, they often take time to adjust. There is a learning period in which they have to figure out how to translate their tools to that next level. However, there has been no adjustment period for Chandler Simpson as the ...2025
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• Padres drop third game to Rays, suffer first sweep of season

Martin Maldonado tags out Jose Caballero. | Photo by Matt Thomas/San Diego Padres/Getty Images San Diego in the midst of a four-game losing streak The Tampa Bay Rays were looking to add to their 3-2 lead over the San Diego Padres with a sacrifice fly in the top of the seventh inning, but Fernando Tatis Jr. had other ideas. Yandy Diaz hit a fly ball to right field with one out and runners o...2025
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• The Rays pummel the White Sox, so let’s tour Chicago together
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