The Tampa Bay Rays, based in St. Petersburg, Fla., participate in Major League Baseball (MLB) and are a member of the American League East Division. The Rays were founded as the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in 1998.
RAYS 12, RED SOX 4at Port Charlotte, Fla.Friday, Feb. 27 Red Sox at the plate: After falling behind, 10-0, Boston scored four runs in the fifth. One of the runs came via an RBI single by Rocco Baldelli, who was playing in his first Grapefruit League game with the Red Sox — against his former [...]
PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. — If anybody understands it's not how you open, it's how you close, Troy Percival is the guy. After 13 Major League seasons, Percival knows the drill. "I understand how it goes — especially in this job," Percival said. "When you're doing your job well, people don't really know you're doing your [...]
PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. — The two teams that battled furiously for six months last season, and then again in an epic American League Championship Series, were back on the same field again for the first time since that tense, riveting Game 7 in October. In the low-pressure environment of Friday's exhibition contest between the Red [...]
YANKEES 5, RAYS 1at Tampa, Fla.Thursday, Feb. 26 Rays at the plate: Ben Zobrist logged the Rays' first hit of the afternoon with a fourth-inning single, and Tampa Bay got on the board in the seventh inning with an RBI single by Jon Weber off the glove of backup shortstop Eduardo Nunez to score Elliot [...]
TAMPA, Fla. — Wade Davis aired it out on Thursday afternoon, and the way the right-hander pitched against the Yankees, one had to wonder just how deep the pitching well runs in the Rays organization. Davis started for the Rays in front of 10,693 fans at George M. Steinbrenner Field and mowed through the six [...]
TAMPA, Fla. — Rays left fielder Carl Crawford made the trip to Tampa on Thursday and found himself batting second for the second time in as many days. Batting second is nothing new for Crawford, but it is different from where he hit during the 2008 postseason, when he batted sixth upon returning from an [...]
PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. — The new home of the Rays had a special feel Wednesday afternoon, as Charlotte Sports Park greeted a Grapefruit League contingent of 6,028 for a Rays-Reds contest the Rays dropped, 7-0. This year's opening of the Rays' Spring Training camp marked the return of baseball to Charlotte County for the first [...]
REDS 7, RAYS 0at Port Charlotte, Fla.Feb. 25, 2009 Reds at the plate: Joey Votto got the Reds' first hit of the spring when he singled off Jason Hammel in the fourth. Brandon Phillips and Jay Bruce then followed with singles, but Rays center fielder Fernando Perez threw out Votto at the plate. … Jerry [...]
PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. — To help ease the traffic and parking problems many fans experienced on Wednesday at the Charlotte Sports Park, there will be several improvements with regards to traffic and parking for the Rays' remaining Spring Training home games at Charlotte Sports Park. Parking lots will open at 10 a.m. and stadium gates [...]
PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. — The Rays will open the gates to Charlotte Sports Park for their Grapefruit League opener against the Reds at 1:05 p.m. ET today. "I love it. I absolutely love it," said Rays manager Joe Maddon when asked about the club's new facility. "From a theoretical perspective, I like the fact that [...]