“That was a little scary there”, Rays manager Kevin Cash said. The 28-year-old Californian has been taken deep at least once in 10 straight games and has yielded seven blasts in his last three contests.
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With Tampa Bay up 2-1, Texas’ Jonathan Lucroy hit a two-out double that appeared to score Adrian Beltre until a replay review showed second baseman Tim Beckham’s throw was in time to get Beltre and end the inning. He took a bat to the head in the on-deck circle during Wednesday’s game, and felt good enough to play Friday but left the game early after symptoms returned.
Beltre has now homered in three straight games against Tampa Bay dating back to last season’s series in Arlington, with four total home runs in those games, and has homered in four of his last five games against the Rays, with five total home runs in those games. ” Tampa Bay put the game away in the seventh against Keone Kela, who allowed four runs and recorded only two outs. The earned run came off a solo homer in the eighth from Steve Souza, but other than that, Hamels’ was virtually un-hittable on Friday. In three career starts, he’s 2-0 with a 1.37 ERA, and that drops to 0.71 in two appearances at Tropicana Field.
Andriese (6-5) lost his third straight start, giving up five runs and seven hits in 5 1/3 innings.
“It was a sellout, a pretty important game”, he recalled. In Saturday’s game, the Rays evened it up with an 8-2 victory of their own.
CF Kevin Kiermaier was pulled early in Friday’s game with tightness in his left hip – his defense was sorely missed with rookie Mikie Mahtook as his replacement.
Following the game, the Rays announced that they will place Nick Franklin on the seven-day concussion disabled list. Banister said pitching in a rehab game Wednesday is “part of the plan” for Lewis, who last pitched on June 21.
The Rays had three left fielders in the game before they got their first hit.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) – Jake Odorizzi and one sterling defensive play helped the Tampa Bay Rays give the Texas Rangers a rare loss Saturday night.
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Matt Andriese was able to control the Rangers bats through four innings amidst Cole Hamels being on his game and having no-hit stuff across the diamond, but things started to fall apart in the fifth. 2B Logan Forsythe (back spasms) remains out of the lineup but doesn’t expect to go on the DL.
