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Hershiser: “Landmark Of A Championship Season”
Bugs & Cranks —
Stat Of The Night: Our Devil Rays have now outscored opponents 59-21 in the 7th inning.
Orel Hershiser was doing the game for ESPN and came out as a huge believer as our Devil Rays reversed a 4-1 deficit in the 7th inning of Wednesday’s series finale with the Red Sox.
Does that mean this is no longer the greatest baseball race ever?
Clearly, Orel Hershiser has seen the writing on the wall. Listen to Orel, talking about how our Devil Rays are most likely in first place to stay.
And if any Sox fans want ...
Baseball Today: Thursday, July 3
Projo Sox Blog —
DIVISION DEMOLITION: Let's see. Where to begin?
How about with the hitters? They were 2-for-12 with runners in scoring position, left 10 men on base and squandered a runner-at-third, one-out chance in the seventh.
Baserunners? Julio Lugo took a run off the board when he was called for that rarest of baseball infractions -- interference -- in attempting to break up a double play.
Managerial decisions? Plenty of chew on here, particularly the call for a hit-and-run -- with one out in the ninth and the Sox trailing by a run -- despite the dual facts that a) the baserunner ...
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LONGLORIOUS
draysbay.com 7/3/2008 —
Where it began, I can't begin to know when But then I know it's growing strong Oh, wasn't the spring, whooo And spring became the summer Who'd believe you'd come along
WORDS. DO. NOT. DESCRIBE. THIS.
via www.fangraphs.com
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Hershiser: “Landmark Of A Championship Season”
bugsandcranks.com 7/3/2008 — Stat Of The Night: Our Devil Rays have now outscored opponents 59-21 in the 7th inning.
Orel Hershiser was doing the game for ESPN and came out as a huge believer as our Devil Rays reversed a 4-1 deficit in the 7th inning of Wednesday’s ...
You Really Like Me! Rays See Highest TV Ratings Ever
bizofbaseball.com 7/3/2008 — There are signs, albeit slowly and partially due to the current World Series champion being part of the equation, that fan interest in the Tampa Bay Rays is mirroring their fantastic first-half run. Attendance is slowly inching upward, and television ratings are bearing fruit. Some will say that this may be due to the now infamous dust-up between the Rays and Red Sox on June 5th that resulted ...
Rays Sweep
baseballmusings.com 7/3/2008 — The Rays hold on for a 7-6 win over the Red Sox. Boston had a threat in the 9th, but Upton recovered from a bad start on a long fly ball off Youkilis's bat to make a great catch in...
Rays 7, Red Sox 6 —
Boston.com -- Baseball News 7/3/2008
Boston AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Ellsbury cf 4 0 0 0 0 0 .267 Pedroia 2b 5 3 4 2 0 0 .311 JDrew rf 4 1 2 1 1 0 .302 MRamirez dh 5 1 0 1 0 2 .279 Lowell 3b 4 0 1 0 1 0 .298 Youkilis 1b 2 0 0 1 2 ...
For Rays, A Sweeping Success —
Wash Post MLB 7/3/2008
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Evan Longoria went 3-for-4 and drove in three runs Wednesday night, helping the surging Tampa Bay Rays beat the Boston Red Sox 7-6 for their second three-game sweep of the World Series champions this season.
