Royal Suckdom.
Tampa 2 - Kansas City 4
Royally Good
Gill Meche – He shut down the Rays. Not that that’s really hard lately, but he never let them in the game.
Jason Bartlett – Welcome back! Guess he doesn’t want people to miss Zobrist’s bat. He went 3-3 with a double. Plus he made a couple of outstanding plays in the field. Love him, so having him back increases my baseball viewing pleasure exponentially.
Bullpen – Howell, Balfour and Wheeler all pitched scoreless innings in an effort to let the offense join the game. To bad they didn’t.
Longo – He’s all that and a bag of chips.
Royally Bad
Mr. Garza – He just did not have it today. He was so off that I’m hoping he’s not hurt. Of course he got royally jinxed by Staats and Magrane. They kept going on and on about his pitch count and how he should be able to go deep in the game. How many innings did he pitch? Five. 4ER.
Hinske – He had a Dan Uggla all-star kind of performance. 0-4 at the plate. 3 strikeouts. Two horrendous plays in right field. Royally Awful is more like it.
Pena – He did get a hit tonight, but he’s still classified as bad. He’s had way too many chances to drive in runs lately. Fail. It’s a good thing he’s so cute or he’d be on my shit list.
Royally not Good
Everyone else. Aki, CC, BJ, Floyd, Navi.
Let’s hope the Rays can find their strokes and get back on track tomorrow while the Red Sox and Yankees beat on each other. Go Rays!!
