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Willly Adames follows up grand slam with another big day
Despite the rain shortened schedule on the farm Willy Adames made sure there wouldn’t be some excitement in Durham. Adames hit for the cycle and Jake Bauers added his first homer of the year. Nathan Lukes hit his first homer of the year for Montgomery.
Triple-A Durham Bulls (7-9)The Durham Bulls beat the Buffalo Bisons 8-1. What would Willy Adames do to follow up his first career grand slam? The Bulls faced off against Joe Biagini...
When will he be in the bigs?
Former Rays Danny Farquhar had a successful surgery, and is “progressing well” after suffering a brain anneurism. Marc Topkin gave the update, and rounded up the reactions from Farquhar’s former teammates on the Rays.
If you think fondly of Farquhar, and want to send him a note, the White Sox gave an address:
Fans interested is sending “Get Well” wishes and letters of support to Farquhar should address mail to him at Guaranteed Rate Field, 333 W. 35th...
The Tampa Bay Rays leave the confines of the Trop, where they went 5-4 over their last nine-game home stand. (Photo Credit: Anthony Ateek/X-Rays Spex) The Tampa Bay Rays left the Tampa Bay area in favor of a nine-game road trip following their series finale with the Minnesota Twins on Sunday. First stop Baltimore, where the Rays will face the Orioles in a three-game series, starting Tuesday. Tampa Bay is coming off a three-game sweep of the Twins, and has won four consecutive games...
The final round of voting to name our morning news roundup starts now
Last month we explained that we had renounced our weekday morning news and link roundup, the Rays Tank, would need a new name.
We offered four suggestions from our masthead staff, and asked our readers both to register their preferences among them, and to suggest alternative names.
Many of you participated, and many of you also came up with some great suggestions.
We’ve decided to put some of the most popular into a...
The Rays closer may be returning to form
Alex Colome has had a tough beginning to the 2018 season. Coming into Sunday he had a 7.88 ERA and 5.53 FIP over 8.0 innings while blowing two saves and feeling like every other outing was on the brink of disaster.
Colome had faced 42 batters and struck out six (14.3%) and walked six (14.3%). He threw 53 fastballs (10.0% whiff rate) and 108 cutters (19.44% whiff rate). The fastball was getting more whiffs than usual, as he’d posted an average 4.89%...
Wendle’s 141 wRC+ and so-far plus defense could see him lock up second base
Acquired from the A’s in December of 2017 for PTBNL, C Jonah Heim, Joey Wendle plays second base for the Tampa Bay Rays, and he’s been one of the most solid parts of the team thus far in 2018 to very little fanfare. At the time he was acquired, Rays General Manager Erik Neander had this to say about Wendle,
“Grinder-type player,” said Neander of Wendle, who was acquired for a player to be named or cash...
Will Kevin Kiermaier keep playing all-out when he returns from his latest stint on the disabled list? Beat reporter Bill Chastain answers this and more in the Inbox.
Scuffling Carlos Gomez hit a walkoff yesterday. Twitter had some words about it.
It would be an understatement to say that Carlos Gomez was struggling coming into Sunday’s game. The right handed outfielder and former MVP candidate, acquired to provide some punch to an otherwise less-than-punchy Rays offense, was hitting just .158/.229./.276 headed into the matinee game on Sunday against the Twins.
Things did not immediately look better.
80 grade bat snap from Carlos Gomez here....
Business leaders line up behind stadium plan, but financing questions linger
In February, Rays announced their intention to build a new stadium at the edge of Tampa’s Ybor City. For these plans to succeed, a lot needs to happen, most notably funding to underwrite some $600-800 million in construction costs must be identified. Here we offer an overview of some of the latest developments.
Business SupportSecuring support from the Tampa, and Tampa Bay business community will be key to a...
Carlos Gomez celebrates his first career walk-off in style
Yesterday was the height of the Carlos Gomez experience. His day began on a frustrating note. The veteran of 12-years had struggled at the plate through a slow start to the season (as is the trend with many veterans) swinging early and often.
After striking out earlier in the game, Gomez even took his bat to his knee Bo Jackson style:
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— Tampa Bay Rays (@RaysBaseball) April 22, 2018Gomez was one...
Carlos Gomez walks it off, Danny Faquhar hospitalized, and Willy Adames heating up
The Tampa Bay Rays have completed their first sweep of the season as they capped off a dramatic series with the Minnesota Twins in walkoff fashion, their second walkoff victory during the three game series.
C.J. Cron continued his hot hitting as he belted another home run, his third of the past two games, to kick off the scoring for Tampa Bay. Yonny Chirinos would allow Minnesota to tie the game over the next...
Oh, how sweet it is.
Rays came into this game looking for their 4th win in a row and second consecutive series win.
They would send Official starter #4 Yonny Chirinos to the mound to face off against Phil Hughes and the Lefy heavy Twins.
Yonny's Start
Yonnys first ”official” start was good but not great. He seemed as if he was missing his spots, but only walked Joe Mauer (twice) and struck out 6. He did give up a home run to Eduardo Escobar and an RBI single to the previous game’s...
Willy Adames went deep for the first time this season.
After tripling on Opening Day and doubling in the second game of the season, Willy Adames went 10 games without an extra-base hit. In his last three games, he has a double and his first home run of the season. He has been very good this season, as expected for a talented player who played an entire season at the level he’s at.
Triple-A Durham Bulls (6-9)
Behind Willy Adames’ grand slam, Durham crushed Lehigh Valley by a score of...
It is no secret that the Tampa Bay Rays did not have the best start to the season with their eight game losing streak following opening day. However, they are currently on a four-game winning streak and appeared to have regained some of their offensive capabilities after a strong showing in their three-game series with the Minnesota Twins. While the entire effort of the team can be credited with the wins, several players seem to have found their footing. First baseman C.J. Cron has emerged...
Sunday was quite an interesting day at the old ballpark for Tampa Bay Rays center fielder Carlos Gomez, who experienced some epic ups and downs.Gomez first caught our eye when he got so frustrated by a fifth-inning strikeout that he snapped his bat like a freaking twig over his knee, Bo Jackson style. Dude’s got plenty of strength, that’s for sure. The poor bat never had a chance.A couple hours later, though, Gomez made up for both the strikeout and little tantrum with an epic two-run...
The Rays will be off on Monday before embarking on a nine-game, three-stop road trip to Baltimore, Boston and Detroit. Jake Faria will start the opening game of the Baltimore series. He is 1-0 with a 4.09 ERA in four appearances in his career against the Orioles. Tuesday's game begins at 7:05 p.m. ET.
Carlos Gomez delivered a two-run walk-off homer in the bottom of the ninth to give the Rays a 8-6 win over the Twins Sunday afternoon at Tropicana Field.
An article kind of about Daniel Robertson, and how players can be hard to evaluate.
I had a rather interesting realization today.
I began writing for DRaysBay a little over a year ago. Before my move to DRB, I was a baseball lover, but I didn’t have a team per se. This was not the first time I had hitched my wagon to a team that I had previously followed peripherally but had not had under my microscope. In past iterations, I had written about the Oakland A’s and Minnesota Twins, despite...
Cough…perhaps if the ownership showed more than contempt for the Rays fan-base, more than 10,000 fans would turn out. (Photo Credit: Anthony Ateek/X-Rays Spex) After winning three consecutive games for the first time this season, the Tampa Bay Rays seek their first series sweep this afternoon against the Minnesota Twins. For context, the Rays collected just two series sweeps in 2017. Tampa Bay is coming off a 10–1 shellacking, marking the best offensive output by the team this (young)...
Brendan McKay continues to do it all for Bowling Green.
Dating back to last season, Brendan McKay has dominated in nearly all of his outings. In his first start this season, he threw two innings. That increased to three his next time out, and he threw four innings on Saturday. Whether it’s with Bowling Green or Charlotte, I can’t wait to see him pitch deeper into games and figure out the adjustments he has to make facing hitters multiple times.
Triple-A Durham Bulls (5-9)
Anthony Banda...