Tampa Bay Rays
Texas Rangers: First Time for Everything
Cliff Lee was clobbered by his Texas Rangers teammates Tuesday night after they beat the Tampa Bay Rays 5-1 to advance to the ALCS for the first time in their 50-year history between Washington and Texas.That’s a long time without winning a playoff ser…
13Oct2010 | Babes Love Baseball | 0 comments | Continued
There’s Always Next Year, Rays Fans
Last week it looked as though the Tampa Bay Rays might be headed to another ALCS before they went and dropped the first two games against the Rangers in St. Petersburg. Then they came back to win the next two in Arlington before losing the finale to a …
13Oct2010 | Babes Love Baseball | 0 comments | Continued
Tonight’s Badass ALDS Pitching Matchup
Oh boy are we in for a treat.Down 2-0 after dropping the first two games of the ALDS at home, the AL East champion Tampa Bay Rays bounced back to take the next two from the Texas Rangers on the road in Arlington. Tuesday night at 8pm ET, they’ll play G…
12Oct2010 | Babes Love Baseball | 0 comments | Continued
Champagne Floods Sparse Tropicana Field
These people love their Rays. They also paid for their seats.If the Rays clinch a playoff berth and only 17,891 people are there to see it, did it really happen?While the American League East title — along with the best record in the league — is stil…
29Sep2010 | Babes Love Baseball | 0 comments | Continued
Rays to Hand Out 20,000 Free Tickets (Updated)
In response to Tampa Bay Rays players’ recent comments about the lack of fan support at Tropicana Field, the Rays organization is giving out 20,000 free tickets to Wednesday night’s finale — and final regular season home game of 2010 — against the Ba…
28Sep2010 | Babes Love Baseball | 0 comments | Continued
Longoria, Price Not Impressed With Fans
David Price and Evan Longoria are not impressed. And rightfully so.The Tampa Bay Rays 4-0 loss to the Baltimore Orioles Monday wasn’t half as disappointing as the plethora of empty seats — a crowd of 12,446 — in St. Petersburg, Florida. A good team w…
27Sep2010 | Babes Love Baseball | 0 comments | Continued
The Crazy Mixed-Up AL East
Things are getting pretty complicated in the American League East.Thanks to two homers and five RBI by way of Curtis Granderson’s bat, the New York Yankees came away with an 8-6 home victory over the Tampa Bay Rays Monday, along with a 1.5-game divisio…
21Sep2010 | Babes Love Baseball | 0 comments | Continued
Way To Go, Matt Garza!
After being on the losing end of TWO no hitters this season (one being a perfect game, no less!), the Rays have reason to celebrate. Matt Garza tossed the first no hitter in Rays history on Monday Night, shutting down the Tigers. The contest started ou…
27Jul2010 | Babes Love Baseball | 0 comments | Continued
The Amazing David Price
David Price pitched into the eighth inning of his team’s 6-4 win for a sweep of the Boston Red Sox to become the American League’s first 12-game winner. Badass.The 24-year-old lefty was dominant at Tropicana Field Thursday, allowing just two runs on …
7Jul2010 | Babes Love Baseball | 0 comments | Continued
Can’t We All Just Get Along?
It looks like dugout spats are all the rage these days. The Tampa Bay Rays are the latest team to join the quarrel bandwagon. After losing Friday to the Diamondbacks and Edwin Jackson’s no-hitter and dropping 7 of their last 10 games, they’ve dropped t…
27Jun2010 | Babes Love Baseball | 0 comments | Continued
Way to Go, Edwin Jackson!
Edwin Jackson just finished tossing the second no-hitter in Arizona Diamondbacks history, against his former team, the Tampa Bay [Devil] Rays.It may have taken the right-hander 150 pitches through a sloppy performance that included eight walks and six …
25Jun2010 | Babes Love Baseball | 0 comments | ContinuedNL East on par with AL East
In the last two weeks, the Atlanta Braves have played the Tampa Bay Rays, the Philadelphia Phillies the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox. Now the Florida Marlins are playing the Rays and the New York Mets are taking on the Yankees now that they’ve demolished the pitiful Baltimore Orioles. The record so [...]
19Jun2010 | Braves Blast | 0 comments | ContinuedRays Series Preview: Something’s Gotta Give
The AL East leading Tampa Bay Rays come to town today for a three game series. In an interesting matchup, the Braves – with an MLB best 19-6 home record – face three games from the team with the MLB’s best road record (the Rays are 22-8 away from home).
The first game features Kenshin Kawakami [...]
Neimann Allows Two Hits Too Many
By the time word got around that Jeff Niemann was throwing a no-hitter through six innings, he had already allowed a sharp liner to Toronto Blue Jays shortstop Mike McCoy for the first hit of the evening. But the Tampa Bay Rays right-hander was lights-…
9Jun2010 | Babes Love Baseball | 0 comments | Continued
This is What They Call a No-No
David Letterman asks Dallas Braden what’s up with him and A-Rod and why he wears his bill flat before the Oakland Athletics lefty does the Top Ten List.Become a fan on Facebook and Follow us on Twitter!
11May2010 | Babes Love Baseball | 0 comments | Continued
