Just in case the four-day All-Star break isn’t enough to jar the Tampa Bay Rays from the worst slump in their history, they will have a few lineup tweaks as the return Friday for a three-game series against the Baltimore Orioles at Tropicana Field. Only Chris Sale of the Chicago White Sox has more wins (14) among AL pitchers. “Because I’m from Tampa, Florida, and we wanted to baby to be born in Tampa”. Pedro Alvarez’s solo homer got them on the board, and from their perspective cleared the air of any misunderstanding about whether or not the break was over.
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Whether they are or not, they are at least ready to give him a start, MASN reports.
“I left a cookie out there”, Archer said. “I left a cookie out there”.
Schoop has 10 game-winning RBIs, one behind team leader Chris Davis.
Showalter said during spring training that he believed Bundy could start in the second half of this season, but later retreated from that comment, saying that throwing 70-80 relief innings this season – and a possible winter ball stint – would likely set him up to compete for a rotation spot next spring.
Brad Miller had a one-out double in the ninth off Zach Britton and went to third on a wild pitch.
The Rays answered in the fourth against Tillman when Logan Morrison tripled to the leftfield corner and scored on a single to shallow rightfield by Steven Souza Jr.
Tampa would run the lead to 2- an inning later on Forsythe’s RBI-single. You saw two pitchers that have had a lot of success, and they get some strikeouts quite a bit. TB starter Matt Moore fell to 5-7 with five hits allowed including a two run jack through 7.1 innings. That brought Matt Wieters to the plate, and he grounded into a force out at second base.
Kiermaier is hitting.230 on the season with five home runs. Baltimore also selected the contract of LHP Donnie Hart from Double-A Bowie to join the bullpen. “We got a lead, but we weren’t able to separate it.”NOTES: The Rays made three roster moves coming out of the All-Star break, most notably getting Gold Glove CF Kevin Kiermaier back after missing almost two months with a fractured hand”.
In 11 games (10 starts) versus the O’s, Archer has registered a 3-5 record with a 4.48 ERA. Jepsen thinks he has corrected a mechanical flaw that had him “getting hit at an incredible pace”. Kevin Gausman is 1-6, however, and Yovani Gallardo (3-1), Friday’s starter, hasn’t been reliable, either. RHPs Ryan Garton and Tyler Sturdevant were optioned to Durham.
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Rays: INF Steve Pearce (strained right hamstring) started a rehab assignment with Class A Charlotte. “We’ve followed a pretty strict regimen to get to this point”.
