HER RAYS!

I’m not one to fold socks actually.  I just throw them in the drawer.  It could be because I live in Florida and I hardly ever wear socks.  Anyway, I think the Rays might have thrown the Sox in the drawer this weekend.  Let’s hope that drawer is slammed shut soon.

Game – The Red Sox took the first game since the Rays are sucked into some alternate universe on Friday nights.  It’s bizarre.  Lester wasn’t sharp, but the Rays offense was anemic again.  The only run they scored was on a wild pitch.  Not a single run batted in.  Ugh.  Price pitched pretty well except to Victor Martinez.  Conclusion – If the Rays make it to the playoffs there might have to be some sort of Crash Davis rain delay like scenario planned if a game is scheduled for Friday night.  Oh and Martinez must be beaned.

Set – Saturday night fever!  Garza and Bucholz were dealing.  Martinez was once again a pain in the bum.  However BJ sat on a curve ball and tied the game up all by himself.  In extra innings Dan Johnson hit a walk off home run.  I must now apologize to him because I said some not nice things to him during the course of the game.  Then he had his post game interview and he seemed so excited and nice.  I will be dealing with my guilt issues this week.  Conclusion – Victor Martinez is a drama queen, with a little AJ Pierzynski sneakiness thrown in.  He did not foul that ball off his foot, but after a brilliant performance sold it to the umpire.  He must be punished.

Match – James Shields led the Rays to the series win on Sunday.  Just as Joe Morgan was talking about the shift and how deep the 2nd baseman was playing, Carlos Pena hit a ball that no shift in the world was going to stop.  Zobrist got another base hit.  Maybe things are looking up for him?  I hope so, because I’ve found myself wishing for him to have a day off.  It  might have something to do with missing Briggy baseball though!  Carl Crawford showed how awesome he is.  The bad news is he did it on national television and basically sold himself.  Now everybody wants one.  Dan Johnson had another big hit driving in the go ahead run.  I feel like we should also mention Longo being steady and the bullpen.  They were not scary at all this weekend!  Conclusion – CC hit Martinez with his bat, and Carlos slid in spikes up, but I still feel a little gypped.

The game, set, match theme is because today is the start of the US Open.  Tennis in prime time folks.  Get excited!

Let’s hope the Rays can keep those Jays at bay.  Go Rays!

Bizarre is how I’d classify game 1 in Boston.  The boys were wearing number 42 and it was 42 degrees and dropping that night.  Wade Davis was not sharp.  He got into way too many full counts and used way too many pitches, but who flippin cares.  He’ll work on those things later.  He’s the number five starter and he went to Boston and held them to one run.  I’m a simple girl and that makes me happy.

The baseball gods seemed to be on the Rays side.  Carl Crawford hits a ball to short.  Scutaro couldn’t make the play.  Then CC steals second.  Then Zobrist hits a chopper to third which Beltre loses in the lights?  Carl scores.  I can’t believe Josh Beckett’s head didn’t explode.  This is the run that held them through.  Weird.

So I hear that Varitek can’t catch up to a good fastball anymore, and the Rays were told to in no way throw him an off-speed pitch.  However he homered on an off-speed pitch.  Who’s grounded?

Big Papi finally hits a double and Youkilis forgets that he’s not wicked fast and tries to score from first.  You’re out dude!

Choate came in for his confidence booster and received a lolly pop for being a good boy.

Lance Cormier deserves a medal for his performance in this game.  Especially for getting two ground balls after some mishaps loaded the bases.  Kudos to Longo for making it up to him and getting the final two outs.  How many of you thought the Rays would get out of that jam?  How many thought Pat Burrell would be the one to bring it home?  Yeah not many.

It is pretty cool when the DH hits.  Keep it up Pat.

On to game two.  Disclaimer – I was flipping between this and the Mets/Cardinals while also keeping up on the no hitter.  That’s a whole lot of baseball boys.  I feel like I should watch a chick flick today.  Any recommendations.

The Rays got to Buchholz right off the bat.  Get it, off the bat.  Hee Hee.  Barty grounded out.  Crawford singled.  Benny moves him over, and then he steals third.  Speed rocks.  Longo walks.  Then Pena hits a fly ball to center.  This is where Cameron drops the ball and it’s the gift that keeps on giving.  Carl scores.  Upton walks to load the bases.  So what happens when the DH does hit?  Pat hits a double down the line and clears the bases!  4-0 good guys.  Way to go Pat, you phat.

Shields cruises with the lead.  Literally, he’s hardly taking a breath in between pitches.  In the fifth he got the first two batters out easily.  At this point I said out loud “He needs to slow down.”  That must have been my women’s intuition because right after that Scutaro hit a home run.  A single later and Hickey came out to tell James “Slow down man.”

Marco Scutaro is an excellent defensive player, so do you think that there is an E6 curse at Fenway?  BJ gets on, and is shortly at third.  Speed rocks.  Jaso doubles and brings him in.  Can we keep that Jaso kid?

Longo homers.  Love him.

Shields struggled in the 7th.  I think he was out of gas.  Sonny didn’t help.  No excuses for him.  Choate got another ground out.  Good boy.  Wheels worked a scoreless inning, and Soriano had his first 1,2,3 inning.  In short Rays win again.  Yahoo!

One final note, Sean Rodriguez looked awful at the plate and went 0-4.  Team Brignac, just sayin.  Go Rays!!

Percy and his clown feet are winning me back one step at a time.

The Rays won again today 3-2.  Percy got the save, in a one run game.  He didn’t walk anybody, he didn’t load the bases, he didn’t give up a run!  He was down right boring, but I’m okay with that.  I thought Maddon was on crack to bring him in but…he’s the closer until he proves otherwise right.  It’s a big job, but he’s got the feet for it.  Check those suckers out.  You know what they say about guys with big feet.  Oh, god now I’ve got this awful visual.  Make it stop!  Tequila stat!

The Rays are in first place.  So stellar, and only one of their starting players has a batting average over .300.  They are like a team.  Everybody chips in.  In my mind they all like each other too.  I don’t think we really have any bro-mances like other teams though.  We need to work on that.  In a perfect world it would be Longo and Barty.  Girls gotta have dreams.

So the trade deadline looms, and the Rays come up in a lot of discussions.  I know some people love to try and figure it all out.  I guess I just figure it’s out of my hands and I’ll deal with it when it happens.  That being said I can’t imagine how Tigers fans feel today.  Pudge, the face of the franchise got traded to the evil empire!  I know it’s a business, but us girls get attached to these boys, and what did the Tigers get in return?  Kyle Farnsworth, or Farnsworthless as the Yankees Chick calls him.  He definitely has an arm on him, but is that a fair trade?  However he is a great guy to have on your team in case of a brawl.  Yeah, he will f*ck your shit up.  Rays please take note.  No rushing of the mound when Farny is pitching.  Especially on Saturday when LL Cool J is there, Mama said knock you out!

Off day tomorrow, but the boys are coming home.  I’ll leave you with some of the searches that have brought people to my blog lately.  Go Rays!!

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