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By any account, the Yankees’ superlative play as of late has made them the favorites in an AL East division that looked hyper-competitive coming into the year. The Rays are close in New York’s rearview mirror, but the heavy hitters that everyone expected to compete with the Yankees in the division this year, the Orioles, […]
The Rays won a well-pitched, sharp defense nail biter tonight in Cleveland, with Steven Matz (seven innings pitched) and Ryan Vilade (three hits, two RBI) leading the way. If you like quick moving pitching duels, then the first four and a half innings of this game would be your idea of a good time. The […]
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After a rocky start to the year, the Rays team defense has started to settle in some areas, and nowhere is that clearer than the defense. Here’s how the 2026 Rays currently rank in various key defensive stats: To make more sense of the team’s defensive performance, we’ll break it down by position group. Catchers […]
It seems like watching Rays baseball is all sunshine and rainbows when Tampa Bay isn’t playing an NL Central opponent, right? The Rays are 11-1 against teams not hailing from the Senior Circuit, and are 5-10 against teams that do. In fact, the Rays went 1-2 against the Reds, Cubs, Pirates, Cardinals, and Brewers. Now, […]
The Minnesota Twins flew into St. Pete late Thursday night and will depart shortly. Much like a group of college spring-breakers, they will likely want to forget everything in between (if they remember it at all). In a move that felt a little like “playing with their food”, Tampa Bay ran old friend Griffin Jax […]
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First Chuck: 12:40 PM CDT (new anthem each week!) The Tube: Twins.TV The Dial: Treasure Island Baseball Network Spies ‘R Us: DRAYSBAY I never got to fully appreciate the King of Pop. By the time I was of music-appreciation age, MJ was in full “Wacko Jacko” Era: all Neverland Ranch accusations & dangling babies over […]
While we may see the 2022 version of Shane McClanahan back on the mound for the Rays, with every start he makes following a two-year absence riddled with injuries, the electric southpaw appears more and more like his old self. Today was no exception as he took home his second win of the season and […]
The Twins were drubbed 6-1, nearly taking in their first shutout loss of 2026, but regardless marking their eighth loss in the last nine ballgames, and exacerbating the absolute morale tailspin that Minnesota has found themselves in during the back half of April. A bizarre first inning opened with a ghost-timeout that required something akin […]
First Pitch: 3:10 pm CDTTV: Twins.TVRadio: TIBN / WCCO 830 / The Wolf 102.9 FM / Audacy The Minnesota Twins. Ever heard of em? An early start to the season means that it can be game 27 and still only be April. We’re at the point of the season where the oft-cited “small sample size” begins to stretch […]
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Through the first 8 innings, this was a fun game to watch if you opted for staying in tonight to watch a great slate of games and putting off the social schedule for tomorrow. This was a game where all aspects of the Rays were functioning as we would like to see on a nightly […]
Against an opposing pitcher who’s been one of the best in the AL the last several years, you need your starter to be really sharp — Taj Bradley was doing kinda OK until he wasn’t — and you need your hitters to take advantage of opportunities when they arise. These Twins were terrible at the […]
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First pitch: 6:10 Central Weather: No hurricanes today Opponent’s SB site: DRaysBay TV: Twins TV. Radio: Sandwiches will be marrying Kris Atteberry this fall Today’s Rays starter is Drew Rasmussen, and he is Darn Good. He’d thrown a total of 32.1 so-so innings of relief for the Brewers when they traded him for SS Willy […]
The Seattle Mariners and the Tampa Bay Rays remain peas in a pod. On Friday, the Mariners announced they’ve traded recently DFA’d reliever Casey Legumina to the Rays for minor league RHP Ty Cummings. Despite some difficult outcomes with Seattle, Legumina’s capability to pitch multiple innings and tease a Paul Sewald-esque pitch mix. Unfortunately for […]
The Rays were looking to wrap up their home series against the Reds by avoiding the series sweep. To get there, they had Nick Martinez on the mound up against Brandon Williamson for the Reds. This sets up the delightful situation where we will see Williamson vs Williamson at-bats. TJ Friedl kicked off the first […]
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It was surely an emotional return to Minnesota for Brandon Williamson his last time out. The Fairmont, MN native had hundreds of friends and family in attendance at Target Field as his Cincinnati Reds came to town, a game (and series) in which the Reds began to consolidate the momentum they’ve carried down to Tampa. […]
It is hard to believe that this is the same team that recently had a six game win streak. Maybe the Rays were never that good, and the Yankees and White Sox just aren’t much competition? Yesterday the Rays lost in part due to bad luck and less than stellar defense. Tonight, the team fell […]
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Chase Burns takes the mound for the Cincinnati Reds on Tuesday evening down in Tampa at the Trop, and he does so knowing that another win would clinch a series victory over the Rays. Tampa will turn to veteran lefty Steven Matz for the start, and the Reds have responded by loading their lineup for […]
The Cincinnati Reds are rolling at 15-8 on the season so far, mixing in elite bullpen work with timely hitting and just enough starting pitching to make the dominos fall in the right direction so far. Fresh off a sweep of the Minnesota Twins on the road, the Reds rolled into Tampa and took the […]
The Yankees entered their recent series against the Royals needing a serious shift in momentum. They were 2-7 in their previous nine games — a stretch which saw them get one-hit by the Rays, fail to score for 17 straight innings, and surrender 13 home runs and 32 runs total in four games against the […]