pinstripealley.com - 6/5/2009
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With our New York Yankees hosting the defending American League champion Tampa Bay Rays (yes, that still sounds strange) tonight at Yankee Stadium, I reached out to R.J. Anderson of DRaysBay , our Tampa Bay blog, for some thoughts.
Here is the result of our conversation.
Pinstripe ...
Rays Falter Yet Again
tbsportsblog.com 6/9/2009 — Its become more and more obvious to this observer that this year's Tampa Bay Rays are a mediocre baseball team. Its a team brimming with talent that is underachieving. Its a team that has starters that won't go past five innings, a bullpen that can't hold leads, a hot and cold offense that ...
Yankees vs. Rays Series Preview
slidingintohome.blogspot.com 6/5/2009 — Yankees @ Rays New Yankee Stadium (four games) After once again taking two of three from the AL West leading Rangers the Yankees stay in The Bronx for a four-game series with the Tampa Bay Rays. Tampa has taken three of the five games from the Yankees this season, including a two-game ...
Rays Shut Me Up, Get Out the Brooms for KC
tbsportsblog.com 6/5/2009 —
A few days after complaining that the Rays have yet to sweep anyone this season, Tampa Bay shut me up by rallying late in the third game of a three game set to complete a sweep of the Kansas City Royals. With the sweep, the Rays have once again reached .500 and look to make a dent in both ...
Broom Remains Elusive For Rays
tbsportsblog.com 6/1/2009 — The Tampa Bay Rays still haven't swept more than a two game series this season and let another one get away on Sunday, losing to the Minnesota Twins 3-2, but winning the three game set two games to one.
Matt Garza, the former Twin, had a quality start going 7 strong innings and only allowing ...
Views: A look around the majors
pinstripealley.com 5/31/2009 — In this week's edition of 'Valentine's Views,' we look at some of the stories around baseball for the past week.
I think Lonn Trost and the other members of the Yankee braintrust responsible for much of the foolishness going on at Yankee Stadium should be embarrassed by stories like this ...
2009 Memorial Day into night made memories to always remember!
myteamrivals.typepad.com 5/26/2009 — We started our Memorial Day off going to a Family Fest Day at Classic Park. Everything there was free. There were batting cages, pitching mounds, a traveling minor league museum. Even free were opportunities to play MLB '09 The Show video games among others. Even pretend Sports Illustrated ...
Rank the Rays Week #9
mvn.com 6/2/2009 — The Tampa Bay Rays had a bad series in Cleveland last week but won the series at the Trop against the Twins. Now the Rays are still under .500 at 25-28 and 6 games behind the Yankees in the AL East. Let us see how much the Rays have changed since last week's rankings : A dip of almost three ...
Rain wipes out Yankees-Rays opener —
Major League Baseball News 6/5/2009
The anticipated matchup between two of the game's most dynamic lefthanders will have to wait. Friday evening's game between the Yankees and Rays was postponed due to rain. The teams did not announce a makeup date, but they will not play a doubleheader ...
AL GAME OF THE DAY / Rays 9, Yankees 7 —
SFGate: Top Sports Stories 6/6/2009
No matter which hitters Tampa Bay sends up against Mariano Rivera, they hardly seem intimidated. Joe Dillon hit a tiebreaking single in the ninth inning and the Rays touched up Rivera for the second time this season, beating New York 9-7 despite ...