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Game 32 - Rays vs. Blue Jays
By Jessica | May 6, 2008
Pregame - Sonny vs. Burnett. John Gibbons looks so mean. Like Ray Liotta mean.
1st inning - pitchers roll, everyone out.
Top of 2nd - Burnett strikes out the side.
Bottom 2nd - Stairs gets a base hit. Wells hits into a fielders choice, out at second. Then the Rays get Wells in a pickle. Overbay singles too, but Hill pops out to end the inning.
Top 3rd - Navi gets a bloop single past McScrappy. It’s a start. Gross gets a walk. Did he borrow Alex Rodriguez’s purple lip gloss? Bartlett hits one hard but right to the left fielder. Damn. Aki gets a favor from the baseball gods. Two balls that were clearly off the plate were called strikes, then the gods took it in their hands. A ball gets away from the catcher Zaun and the runners move to second and third. Then as a bonus Aki gets a base hit! Navi scores 1-0 Rays.
Carl Crawford hits a sac fly to score Gross. 2-0 Rays. BJ base hit up the middle, Aki scores. 3-0 Rays. Rock on. Pena of the RAAYS, who likes to call time, strikes out.
Bottom 3rd - Zaun has a nice hit but is held to a single because of Gross and his go go gadget arm. Eckstein hits one over BJ’s head in center, did they underestimate Scrappy-Do’s power? Aki’s relay gets Zaun at home, but shocker, the Rays get screwed on another call! WTF! Are they aware that the Devil Ray that hit an ump with a bat is no longer a Ray!! They score another run in this inning on a sac fly, but they shouldn’t have scored any. 3-2 Rays.
Top 4th - Longo strikes out. Hinske doubles. Navi pops out. Hinske steals third. Shitske my ass. That sounds funny. Gross strikes out.
Bottom 4th - Wells hits a triple on an 0-2 meatball. Overbay hits a sac fly and the score is tied. Hill and Zaun fly out and ground out.
Top 5th - Bartlett basehit. Aki doubles and scores Bartlett, but is kinda dumb and tries for a triple, out. If the Rays lose there is plenty to bitch about in this game. Crawford pops out. BJ singles up the middle, then steals second, and takes third on an error. Pena strikes out again. 4-3 Rays.
Bottom 5th - McDonald singles (he’s in for Eckstein who hurt himself being all scrappy and sh*t) Rios strikes out again. Stewart grounds out on a nice barehanded play by Bartlett. It gets a “nifty” from Magrane. Rolen gets Sonny’s only walk, but Stairs grounds out.
Top 6th - Longo looks a little lost and fouls out. Hinske homers! Huge! At this point ya gotta believe he’s trying to piss off Jays fans. 5-3 Rays. Navi grounds out. Gross maims their shortstop with a ground ball single. McDonald really hurt his ankle? trying to make the play. Holy Honkin Paramedic Chick! McDonald gets to ride off on the cart. Bartlett strikes out.
Bottom 6th - Wells base hit. Overbay doubles off the wall. Wells scores, with no throw home??? Aki’s kinda off tonight. 5-4 Rays. Hill flies out. Zaun hits a grounder and Pena takes it off the face, but can’t make the play. Definitely saved some runs though. Scutaro grounds into a double play. Whew, that was close.
Top 7th - Brian Tallet pitching. Aki grounds out. CC walks. BJ grounds out but moves CC over. Pena strikes out hook, line and sinker.
Bottom 7th - Wheeler in to pitch. Sonny did a good job of keeping the Rays in the game. Rios notches strike out number three. Stewart grounds out, and Rolen flies out. Nice.
Top 8th - Longo walks. Hinske grounds out but moves Longo over. Navi grounds out but moves Longo to third. Gross and his .174 batting average strike out. Was there any thought about pinch hitting there??
Bottom 8th - Opens with a nice shot of one of the Jays pitchers in the bullpen adjusting his cup with his hand inside his pants. Stairs grounds out. Wells grounds out and Bartlett makes a nice bounce pass out to Pena. Love them both. Overbay walks, but Wheeler does an excellent job and gets Hill to fly out.
Top 9th - Sean Camp in to pitch. Doesn’t he owe us a couple? He gets the Rays in order and makes it look easy. Insert snarky comment here.
Bottom 9th - Percy in to pitch. One, two, three. but the best part was Magrane calling one of his pitches a “dipsy doodle.” Percy doesn’t seem like the dipsy doodle type to me.
Oh Yeah the Rays win!! Tampa 5 - Toronto 4. Let’s hope they can make up some ground on Boston tomorrow. Go Rays!!
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