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.
ST. PETERSBURG — On paper, the Yankees and the Rays don't have much in common. One is a storied franchise with a massive payroll and nearly a century worth of history, the other is a cost-efficient upstart that would likely prefer much of its short history to be forgotten. The former is built around big [...]
ST. PETERSBURG — With a little help from Carlos Pena, David Price matched a franchise record and kept the Rays rolling Thursday afternoon. The left-hander picked up his 14th win of the season, tied for the most in team history, and the Rays held on to beat the Tigers, 4-2, before 26,716 in Tropicana Field [...]
Zobrist sits, Upton may pinch-hit in finale Soriano the foundation for Rays' strong 'pen Los Lobos' Berlin a big Rays fan ST. PETERSBURG — The Rays had nothing new to report on the trade front Thursday, maintaining what executive vice president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman called the club's "stealth" approach as Saturday's Trade Deadline [...]
ST. PETERSBURG — A walk-off win for the home team in the top of the ninth? Believe it. That's what happened Tuesday night at Tropicana Field when the Rays turned a game-ending 5-4-3 double-play with the bases loaded to earn a 3-2 win over the Tigers with 19,843 watching. By winning, the Rays took their [...]
The season-long storming of no-hit heaven continued, with Matt Garza becoming the fifth pitcher to break through the pearly gates. Garza's near-perfect no-hitter on Monday night against the Tigers at Tropicana Field affixed another exclamation point to a season commandeered by pitchers, and his former manager got in a good quip at the right-hander's expense. [...]
The topic in the Mets' clubhouse that day was no-hitters, a topic Mets pitchers discuss from time to time without firsthand knowledge of the phenomenon. It was in the summer of 2005 when Steve Trachsel recalled the six-man no-hitter the Astros had dropped on the Yankees two years earlier. "Is that allowed?" Trachsel asked. Then [...]
ST. PETERSBURG — Matt Garza put the shoe on the other foot Monday night. The right-hander did so by no-hitting the Tigers to record the first no-no in team history as the Rays took a 5-0 win at Tropicana Field with 17,009 fans watching. "It's the first no-hitter I've ever had," Garza said. "It's great [...]
CLEVELAND — Suddenly Cleveland doesn't seem like such an unattractive destination. Based on past baggage that included a 17-game losing streak in Cleveland, the Rays headed to their destination for the weekend with the eagerness of a child forced to attend cotillion classes. But after dropping the first game of the series Friday night, thereby [...]
Balfour's success comes from fastball Maddon: Herzog was a shrewd evaluator Joyce back in outfield after time at DH CLEVELAND — The Rays open their longest homestand of the season Monday night at Tropicana Field against the Tigers. Several highlights of the coming days and nights at home will include Hispanic Heritage Night on Friday [...]
CLEVELAND — The Rays took a 4-2 win over the Indians on Sunday at Progressive Field with 13,410 watching. By winning, the Rays finished their 10-day, nine-game road trip 5-4, moving to 59-38, 21 games over .500 — the most games over they have been all season. The Rays also claimed a series victory to [...]