Recharged Percival leads Rays on, off field

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THT Live:Percival’s changeup
Published 5/8/2008 by Sal Baxamusa at The Hardball Times
... newest pitch. It's not everyday that a 38 year-old learns a new changeup . But "learned a new pitch" ranks right up there with "Lasik surgery", "finally healthy," and "best shape of my life" as fake-o excuses for altered performance. What do the data say? According to his ...

Old Friends Night: Rays 8, Blue Jays 3 (13 Innings)
Published 5/9/2008 by Rob (noreply@blogger.com) at 6-4-2 — an Angels/Dodgers double play blog
Ken Rosenthal wrote a glowing report on Troy Percival today. Is that something like the Sports Illustrated cover curse? I dunno, but he suffered his first blown save today. With Tampa Bay cruising to a 3-0 victory on the road on an eight-inning, six-hit shutout by former Dodger Edwin Jackson, the Jays tied it up in the ninth against Percival on a Vernon Wells homer and an Aaron Hill single. Tampa Bay scored five in the top of the thirteenth, the final four on Dioner Navarro's grand slam, his first homer of the season and the second slam of his career. ...

[THE HANGOVER] Shawn Bleepin' Camp Repays The Rays
Published 5/9/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (The Professor) at Rays Index
THE GOOD: Edwin Jackson. 112 pitches, 73 strikes. His 112th pitch was 97 mph. One pitch in the 8th registered 99 (although we are skeptical) and he was consistently 95+ in the 8th inning. No runs. 6 hits, no walks. Great game, even if the Jays bailed him out on a number of occasions. But that is the benefit of a 95 mph fastball. It is much more difficult to lay off a pitch out of the zone. He only had 3 Ks, but his strikeout of Shannon Stewart leading off the 6th was a perfect example of just how good Jackson can be. After falling behind 2-0, he followed that up with a 93 ...