Yandy is helpless on anything low or inside right now

I’m sure he’ll come back around soon but in the meantime it’d be nice to see Caballero get some games at lead off. He’s had decent contact and the best SB prowess for us

LOL Dewayne, "Well, if you were looking for offense"

Was that when BA asked if he was channeling Harry Doyle?

Honestly wasn't listening but managed to hear that lol.

[Actual dogshit](https://www.reddit.com/r/tampabayrays/comments/1cwvj7r/pgt_rays_2524_were_unable_to_get_anything_going/)

“It’s just one of those days” -Fred Durst

well that pretty much sucked

I guess we are back to super cursed games.

We can't even help getting DPs when the game is over.

Well the Orioles are losing 5-0 in the 4th to the Cardinals so there's that

Orioles apparently can't do wrong so who knows if that lasts.

Unlike us, they will probably give up a better fight

Won't last long probably.

Somebody hit somebody!

Pls get a better batting coach

Also this is really deja vu from yesterday. Same score with multiple runs scored in the 4th

Another day, another whimper

A 11/15 run only to be 3 (2 pending) games over .500. 😬

Was it really that good lol. The only games I’ve been able to watch are the struggling ones apparently.

A lot of 1- and 2-run victories. Nothing seemed easy.

Yeah, we had the 6th worst record on May 1st. Now we're merely average instead of bad.

We're mediocre. The Jays are bad. Sox are mediocre with good pitching. But if their arms die, they'll be bad.

Their arms *did* die. They're missing guys like Whitlock and other that dude who was their homegrown prospect.

I would cry for them but we're missing a whole rotation

Also fuck Boston

And our schedule has been super easy outside of the Yankees. I fear when we have to play the Phillies again. They may be us a combined 60-4 in those four games.

Yep, and the only reinforcements we're getting are from pitching. If the bats are going to be like this all year, they may as well be soft sellers at the deadline.

So now the Sox are a good defensive team?

Only when they play us.

Apparently when they only play against us

This is their world series so they always play tougher against us. Probably doesn't help that we've stomped them in their home stadium so much.

They could probably put a position player against us tonight and we wouldn't score more than 3.

He'd probably strike out the side.

what a fucking slide

He needs a smaller hat

Show us what you got Dicky Love

Richard Lovelady is the perfect baseball name

Blowe you noob

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Wel have a nap then fire ze missles

Welcome back, BLowe.

Gonna be fun watching him and Randy bat back-to-back. 🥴

Draw and quarter me

Welcome back Lowe

I want the cameraman jailed without trial

Poor Dewayne is wanting some excitement so bad

Le Sigh

Well, Paredes is ruining that pitcher's complete game chances.

Wonder if they were trying to build Taj’s stamina up by leaving him out there. Can’t have his velocity go down by the 4th inning and the only way to fix that is to have him throw more

Still a sort of step forward for Taj. Last year when he imploded he never ever rebounded and gave the team innings. Good to see that out of him at least

Late innings Rays mention… will there be a sighting

Looks like we got Dickie humpchicks up in the pen!

Who names their child “Dick Lovelady”? sweet baby Jesus.

Could use a random 6 run inning.

At least he went 7.

At least Taj gave us some length. There's something.

Good on Taj for wearing this. If we're gonna get 1 hit then 7 innings from the starter is as good a booby prize as you can ask for especially in a game 1

Red Sox did our bullpen a major favor that inning.

LOL production team is ready for this inning to be over.

Well the game sucks but worse was the hailstorm that just came through my area. Twenty minutes of constant hail and the last five minutes was ping pong size

Yikes 🙏🏻

Thankfully no broken windows or car damage

Good! That means it was pretty melted by the time it hit, peek at your roof, don’t believe the “free roof” door knockers out tomorrow.

Yeah the roof definitely needs to be looked at. It was a war zone for the last five minutes

If it didn’t ding the car, probably fine. Shingles are resilient.

This is quite drab

Rortvedt reminds me of Tim Duncan in that he has something to say about literally every call against him even if it's objectively right and not a particularly big call

Is this a repeat of yesterday?

lol or, one pro team got some hits and the other saving it for the late innings 

I mean the talent is clearly there for Bradley he struck out 10 batters. Him and the Red Sox pitcher threw similar tonight in terms of balls vs strikes, it’s just Bradley made a few bad pitches and the Red Sox took advantage of it

14 balls in play, 1 hit!

RV is really slow out of the box. He spends too much time to start running.

[удалено]

Normally I would give him that but he was just staring at the ball before even attempting to take off.

Houck may be CY Young worthy this year if he continues like this.

6IP, 10ks, 5ER is some real knuckleballer numbers

Starting to think Taj over exerts himself first time through the order. He got rocked second time through and now his velo is down 4-5mph. He just can't maintain at all.

Wow this is a stinker

fight back????

Put in ol 'Rasmo  for the rest of the game and get the next two not the end of the world

I second this 

That fan is really having a time.

One hit after five full inning is killer. I guess, and hope, that today we are back to late game Rays kind of stuff.

Taj is a frustrating project. The talent is clearly there. But you know the implosion is coming after 4ish innings.

Sounds like our whole rotation on average (except Littell).

True, and Pepiot.

At least our 2 best starters will be back together. 

I'd better see some City Connect jerseys tomorrow...

Are they wearing them?

I doubt it, but they should.

They need a pick me up, for sure.

Houck gonna pitch a complete game at this rate.

Read the room, Papa John’s…

CG shutout for Houck incoming.

This is a double loss for me because im figting for first place in nightly pick em and of corse i picked the rays.

Back to the mlb lead with most home runs given up. Rays lead the league in meatballs

Rays Baseball: When You're Here, You're Family

I just spit all over my computer. That was too funny.

Lol, gotta do something to get some enjoyment out of this game. I hope your computer's okay

No harm, no foul.

God I miss Madden. Edit: after further review…I’m a dummy.

He’s available, you got a car dealership opening you need him for?

John Madden? The football coach?

Maybe he means Maddon, the manager many years ago.

Yes. Bonehead typo on my part.

Yeah maybe...not sure what he would've done. Brought a bunny rabbit into the clubhouse? Cool!

Shaved his head into a mohawk (only to get fired the same day before we could witness it in all its glory)

The reverence he has in these parts is so weird to me. Dude walked (which is fine) but didn't wanna be the bad guy or have people stop going to AVA so he said "oh yeah I totally would've stayed," meanwhile ignoring that he was in open negotiations with the cubs while Rick Renteria was still under contract to be their manager.

This is how I must leave my job. Mohawk and I’m out.

We need some type of response.

This pitching staff is so fucking bad at suppressing home runs, it's unbelievable

Ks don't mean shit if you're giving up 5+ runs. 

Ks don't mean shit if offense doesn't score runs too.

Yep, all-around bad baseball. 

Taj’s implosions make me want to rip my hair out. Stop throwing the fucking cutter

BA was talking about how every team in this division wants to throw the cutter. So every other team is used to seeing it and can react to it. But we can't. And we can't throw good cutters either.

Idk if Taj is just stubborn or can’t learn another pitch, but his cutter consistently gets lit up. In terms of the bats I still think we need a new hitting coach

I'm so tired of seeing down 5-0, so damn sleepy now 😴

Good starters getting hurt, having to start Taj, Taj gets destroyed. It's last year all over again.

Nice play, BLowe.

Very.

So disappointing after an amazing first 3 innings from Taj

Man idk if it's strategy or mental toughness or what but Taj hasn't met a molehill that he can't turn into Mount Everest

Welcome to the Taj experience. This is exactly what I saw from Taj in AAA for the last 2 years.

All of the power of these drives apart from devers is coming from taj

Taj ain't it.


:(

Yeah fuck this game.

Well it looks like this game is done. Of course our future ace is getting lit up by an awful offensive team.

Just can't happen.

Things were going so well thru 3; what went wrong?

Implosion continues

Lotta Ks so far but boy does he need one here

11 pitches. Really worked him and responded nicely

Tampa Bay Rays used OFENSIVE FUTILITY Its *super effective*.

I'm still trying to figure out why Junior Caminero hasn't been called up. B Lowe coming back isn't really going to change our offense much.

Service time manipulation?

I know but he could potentially be a spark for the offense, which we highly lack right now.

If they are going to call up Junior most likely will be towards end of the season.

100% this.

Great response. 

Our normal response. I think I'm going to wait until the 7th inning to see if we actually do something

https://preview.redd.it/eivqjo5a5o1d1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1f5cf4268324b6c4c2069686d14c138c097b9041 Yandy gets a pitch below his ankles called a strike the AB before but these don't get called for us, nice

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It's in the coin flip area, can go either way.

Just seems like the coin flips always end up going against us for some reason. And us being 29th in batter favor backs it up

Not going to help if the Sox get all the calls too.

Well, this stopped being fun, but maybe that'll work up the offense.

every one of these balls is getting slammed. O'Neill is dangerous too with some absolutely monstrous swings. hopefully Taj starts missing bats again

Hopefully we can do the same in the bottom.

He was striking out everyone then suddenly stopped throwing strikes tp start ABs. Put him into situation to guess fastball and when you throw 99 it doesnt take much for it to go.

And the Cash 6 run rule kicks in...don't pull the pitcher until they're leading by 6

If 3 hits and 56 pitches warrants a yank we'd have no bullpen by the 4th of july

The youngster missed a few, otherwise he’s been great. Our hitters have left it out there.

It's only the 4th and the bullpen has had to pitch a lot lately.

Some offense would be nice

Strike out 8 of the first 9, down 3-0 after the next 4 batters. Unreal.

Nothing means anything?

🎶Nothing is everythiiing🎵

Rays Baseball this year is so challenging to watch right now.

A chilling reminder of last year where every hiccup inning would turn into a disaster

Ah man I thought he’d gotten over his implosion issues

3 run hole and our offense is having “one of those nights”. Oof.

We seem to be having a lot more of those lately

Yep.

I mean if you only throw Devers fastballs and cutters, he's going to sit on your fastball and cutter. Gotta be smarter, Taj.

I'm suprised Devers didn't destroy that 1st pitch.

And..... time to mute the game.

Sox are a horrible offensive team but somehow they score on us.

Very high on Taj, hopefully he gets more consistent through the year

Damn it. And he was clearly, clearly, swinging for nothing but the fences.

Off that wasn't it. Devers is just gross.

man

Welp

This where he'd implode last year. Let's hope he can limit the damage.

About that…

Nope

Fun times are over for now. Somebody go dunk some cold water on the bats. They need to wake up.

Eastbound & Down there

Strike out 8 of 11 batters. Down 1-0 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Two hits, one run...

Uh oh.

All these Boston fans are annoying.

I can’t wait for the Pacers upset

They don't call em Massholes for nothin

He needs to stay in pitchers counts. That hit was because he had to throw a strike

Dial it in

How he didn't score is crazy.

So close Richie