Baseball, Buds & Brews

Joey Wendle deserves that ASG spot! His WAR is nearly 3.0 higher than Giancarlo Stanton's since 2018!!

As the great Dave Wills would say, RAYS WIN! RAYS WIN! RAYS WIN! 7-1 to 🧹🧹🧹 the Mets. Another big day for the Rays offense, imagine how tough this team will be if they score five runs and pitch like this every day. Thoughts on the game? We'd love to hear them...

Mets @ Rays - 1:10pm - Stroman (NYM) vs. Fleming (TB) - 📺 BallySports SUN 📻 95.3 WDAE 620AM

A huge bounce back week for the Rays to salvage the series against the Yanks. And a great start with two wins against the Mets. A pitchers duel in the first and an offensive explosion yesterday afternoon. The pitching was great against the Yankees, however the Rays bats were reminiscent of the series against Oakland at the Trop. Opportunities to win every game, but you gotta score a run or two to win. Glad to see they're putting it together, and the pitching staff looks great with multiple guys slated to return from the IL soon.

In other news, the Rays sent Yoshi Tsutsugo to LA for cash/PTBN and he will now play for the Dodgers. I'll keep you all posted on his status as I closely follow Dodger baseball as well. The Dodgers also just signed Albert Pujols to come off the bench and pinch-hit occasionally.

Last night was about as good a pitching performance as you'll get. Sean Manaea's perfect game broken up with an Arozarena walk in the 7th and Manaea's former HS teamate in Mike Brosseau breaks up the no-hitter with a double to lead off the 8th. A beautiful piece of hitting I might add, nice short swing to slap that splitter into the Right-Center gap. Rich Hill was spectacular too with 6 innings of shutout ball allowing the only 2 hits in the game at the point, all of which came from Jed Lowrie. Prior to Seth Brown's RBI single in the 7th, Lowrie had all 3 hits in the baseball game for all 18 hitters. And sure enough it was Brown who hit the walk off homer with 2 out in the 9th, making him the only Athletic to drive in a run. Just an all around great game of baseball, and spectacular pitching from both sides. Hopefully Rays can bounce back tonight and get to a Mother's Day rubber match.

Some videos from the series in Anaheim 🧹

Some pictures from the series in Anaheim 🧹

HOME OPENER SPECIAL

We will be live from the Trop on Friday Noon-2pm talking about the first week of Rays baseball and what to expect from the first home series of the year. Stop by our tent in the back of Lot 7 for a free hotdog and grilled potatoes and talk Rays baseball with us. It's an ALCS rematch baby! You don't want to miss it!!

Rough last three games for the Rays. Pitching is struggling and missing Anderson and now Chaz Roe is starting to take its effect. Will they turn it around tonight in Boston and salvage a win? We'll discuss this and recap the series with the Fish in our blog post later today.

Rich Hill's curveball usage has increased by 2% annually the last 3 years lowering his opponent average against his curveball also drop annually over the last 3 years