Rays Out-Slug World Champion Phillies for Series Win

I've never been one for moral victories. You either win or you lose. A rematch of teams that met in a championship setting the previous season does not constitute a "revenge game" or series. The Philadelphia Phillies defeated the Tampa Bay Rays in the 2008 World Series—they have the rings. No series win in June the following season will avenge that. Perhaps that's what the Tampa Bay fans were telling their team when they decided to keep Tropicana Field half-full the majority of the series. The Rays took two out of three games of the set to improve to four games over .500, pull within six of the first place Boston Red Sox and within two of the current wild card holder, the Evil Empire (the New York Yankees for those just now being introduced to my blog posts). Game one was a disaster from the outset, with super youngin' David Price getting waxed for six runs in just the first inning. Before he'd leave after 4 1/3 innings pitched, he would be on the hook for 10 runs (five ... (link)