<html>The lost the series to the as they were shutout on Thursday afternoon 2-0. The offense managed to produce a measly three hits while going 0-8 with runners in scoring position. For a detailed recap,The flu season is starting a little early this year, head on over to Michael s il Myers discussed his and the team s recent slumps after the game yesterday, video courtesy of Steve Kinsella.
There are two days left of August baseball and the Rays still hold a half-game lead over the AL Wildcard. Unfortunately,Gronkowski practices in full pads for the Patriots, Tampa Bay is now two and a half games behind Boston for the AL East,Cleveland at Detroit, and they ve fallen behind in the loss column as well. Boston heads on a six-game road trip now to face the and . The Rays begin their ten-game road trip today with the first stop in Oakland.
takes the mound tonight for the Rays against of the . Parker has been solid over his last ten starts, running into trouble only once against the Angels on July 28th when he gave up six earned runs and seven walks. Aside from that, he s been fairly dominant, going at in each of his last three starts. The Rays bats will need to wake up in Oakland in order to defeat Parker and the A s.
In other news,USA Hockey welcomes pressure of golden expectations in 2014, had a rehab start in Durham last night in Moore gave up four runs on eight hits in four innings. His next start will be with the Rays and will most likely be against the Angels. No starter has been announced for Sunday s game against the A s yet, but I doubt we see Moore start that soon.
Congratulations are in order for the Charlotte Stone Crabs who They started the year off 8-22 and have definitely made a huge turnaround since then.
Per Bowman Scout,Research shows that lying causes nose temperature to rise, was promoted to the Durham Bulls and will make his first AAA start on Monday.
Top LHP Enny Romero has been promoted to AAA and will debut for them on Labor Day.
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Links:
-Dave Cameron of FanGraphs discusses why we should be and emphasizes the importance of remaining schedules.
- and the Tigers walked off a against the Athletics. Grant Balfour could not protect a 6-3 lead in the ninth.
- gave a .
-Do not bring up Brandon Phillips with him.
Not too many pictures were posted yesterday, but the theme for the Rays road trip to California was college football jerseys.
Just another day in the clubhouse:
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Yes...myself and DeJesus are the lone USF reppers!
(@Evan3Longoria)
Longoria also tweeted this after yesterday s loss:
With every success come failures along the way. It s the moments in between that define our character.
Evan Longoria (@Evan3Longoria)
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