Joe is back with his postgame thoughts…. A way-too-soft throw to a cutoff man and looking like a minor leaguer at the plate highlighted savior right fielder Will Myers’ heralded debut this afternoon/evening in Boston. Joe is so tempted to blast the kid for swinging at the first pitch after [...]
Joe is back with his postgame thoughts. … The Rays and Hellboy got pasted 10-1 by the Royals tonight before an alleged Rays crowd of 11K and change, and Joe’s going to nearly pretend it didn’t happen. The beer will go down easier that way. But there was one small [...]
Joe is back with his postgame thoughts…. Please let tonight’s stellar 2-1 win against the Orioles mark the spiritual end of the heinous Roberto Hernandez experience and the start of the Chris Archer era, which should have been rocking two months ago. Archer was superb — seven innings, 84 pitches, [...]
Joe is back with his post-game thoughts…. Joe’s wondering how many late-game collapses a team can endure and still be a good team, a playoff team. Sadly, every last Rays fan is being forced to ponder the question. Joe took in the last half of the Rays’ 4-3, 4-hour, 11-inning [...]
Joe is back with his postgame thoughts … Josh Lueke walked three batters in the seventh today and somehow Joe Maddon thought was in the best interest of the Rays to let him keep struggling and face Edwin Encarnacion with the bases loaded. Bases cleared. Game over. Bad decision. Reboot the [...]
Joe is back with his postgame thoughts…. Fernando Rodney moaned about “one pitch” costing the Rays and him in the Sox debacle on Thursday night. So it was fitting that one pitch really turned the Rays to wacky 12-10 win in Baltimore on Friday. In the third inning, Kelly Johnson [...]
Joe is back with his postgame thoughts…. The agony of this latest Fernando Rodney choke job really shouldn’t be overblown beyond pounding your head against the wall because the guy couldn’t throw strikes. It happens. Rarely this painfully, with a three-run ninth, but it happens. Crooked Cap’s immortality only lasted [...]
Joe is back with his postgame thoughts…. The table was set perfectly for Matt Moore to pull a Humpty Dumpty and fall to pieces en route to his first loss of the season against the hated Red Sox tonight. But Moore wouldn’t play along. David Ortiz clobbering a three-run homer [...]
Joe is back with his postgame thoughts … Forget about crazy Alex Cobb having one of the wackiest outings in baseball history tonight. Forget about the bullpen looking like the 2012 edition — again. For this night, Joe’s got to acknowledge what Evan Longoria continues to do at the plate. [...]
Joe is back with his postgame thoughts…. Matt Moore winning and dominating in his first four starts is really the stuff Rays fans rightly fantasized about this offseason. Moore had the big late-season/playoff splash in 2011, struggled through a decent rookie campaign last year, and now he’s on fire. But [...]
