Joe is back with his postgame thoughts…. Joe realizes the Rays flushed numerous chances to put runs on the board in the 3-2 walkoff loss in Baltimore last night. It was on the damn bats. But Joe still has to question why the move to Kyle Farnsworth to open the ninth when [...]
Joe is back with his post-game thoughts…. Lifeless. Joe can’t think of another word to describe the dump the Rays dropped in Baltimore tonight, losing 9-2. “Boring” also comes to mind. When was the last time everyone out of the Rays pen got tagged? Hittable Jason Hammel was on the [...]
Joe is back with his post-game thoughts…. The Rays were 0-for-6 with runners in scoring position tonight. They deserved to lose to the Rangers. And you put an exclamation point at the end of it with Karlos Pena taking a called third strike with the game on line in the [...]
Joe is back with his postgame thoughts…. The Rays’ bullpen mastery is almost a given at this point, but when it delivers five scoreless with eight strikeouts against the Rangers, then it deserves the kudos that are getting far too easy to brush aside. Wade Davis was razor sharp in [...]
Joe is back with his postgame thoughts…. Joe’s not sure what’s better, the Rays sticking it to the Yankees in critical September games these past two days or knowing the assault the Yanks are under tonight from the New York media for officially blowing their AL East lead. Baltimore and [...]
Joe is back with his postgame thoughts…. The Rays needed a punching-bag game like this today, where they could hammer out a huge lead, get everyone involved (18 hits) and cruise back to St. Pete with a much-needed split in Toronto and more confidence. As expected, a 9-zip lead in [...]
Joe is back with his postgame thoughts…. Joe’s going to take a few seconds to lament that B.J. Upton surely will play his last game in a Rays uniform next month. There’s just no other player that’s as all over the place as Upton, and in all it’s been a fun [...]
Joe is back with his postgame thoughts…. Luke Scott filled the Karlos Pena role nicely tonight, didn’t he? A couple of whiffs and failure to get a runner in from third with less than two outs was reminiscent of two nights ago when Karlos Pena played his way out of [...]
Joe is back with his postgame thoughts…. Wait a minute. The Rays didn’t have one .100-and-change hitter in the lineup last night. How bout that! Karlos Pena sat out his first game of the 2012 season and the Rays bombed the Rangers with 16 hits, including five homers, along with [...]
Joe is back with his postgame thoughts…. What one Rays player has played in every game this season? And what Rays player is on pace for 200 strikeouts? Yeah, it’s the same guy who was booed last weekend at Tropicana Field, and the same guy you booed early watching the [...]
