He would eventually lose his control as he walked four, but he provided very effective long relief for New York.įaria, meanwhile, continued his own control struggles, falling behind almost every batter. Cessa went on to pitch 3.1 innings, striking out the first four Rays he faced as they chased his sliders. Joe Girardi did not wait long to pull his floundering starter, replacing him with Luis Cessa. Another run scored on a Wilson Ramos single, and the Rays had a 4-2 lead. In all honesty, a slumping Corey Dickerson was not the batter I wanted to see there, as Montgomery’s control was shaky and a patient batter might have drawn the RBI walk.īut Dickerson, with two strikes on him, managed to get just enough contact to push a single into center field, and two runs came home. A Lucas Duda walk loaded the bases, bringing up Corey Dickerson with two outs. Peter Bourjos doubled, and Evan Longoria legged out an infield hit.
The Rays got their game-deciding crooked numbers in the third inning. Two batters later he hung a pitch to generally light-hitting Ronald Torreyes, who connected for a two run homer. Faria, who struggled with control all day, walked Chase Headley in the bottom of the second inning. New title: It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity.īut that lead didn’t stand. The Rays got on the board in the first inning, scoring on an RBI single by Trevor Plouffe. I had been hoping to see the kind of shut down performance he enjoyed in his last start, and I even had the title for the recap picked out: A W for the Birthday Boy! Unfortunately I had to drop that title pretty quickly Jacob Faria was the Rays starter, and also happened to be celebrating his 24th birthday. Did you doubt it? Did you doubt that the Rays would hang on to win, after seeing late inning leads evaporate in far too many recent games?īut thanks to some clutch hits (all the Rays’ runs came with 2 outs - H/T Neil Solondz) and five scoreless bullpen innings (H/T Rays front office), today the Rays were victors.
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