Rays 5, Royals 2
Record: 16 - 8, best in baseball
Attendance: 8,298, 28th worst in baseball, ahead only of Kansas City and Miami.
The Rays jumped out to a 4-0 lead after two innings, Joey Wendle driving in one on a single in the first, and Mike Zunino, whose bat has come alive with the birth of his son four days ago, driving home another with a single in the second, when they scored three in all. They carried that lead into the sixth when Zunino homered to left center. In his last six at bats he has two homers three other hits, a walk, and three RBIs.
Ryne Stanek opened the game and gave way to Jalen Beeks, who picked up his first victory after pitching four and two-thirds innings of bulk relief. There were three other relievers, including the suddenly indispensable Emilio Pagan, who picked up his second save in two nights. Austin Pruitt, just called up, gave up both Royal runs, one on a home run by Martin Maldonado in the seventh and the other on a wild pitch that skipped all the way to the KC dugout and allowed Raúl Adalberto Mondesí to score all the way from second.
The Rays have won the series (that's seven of eight this young season) and are now hoping for a sweep to build on for their three-game revenge set against the Red Sox this weekend.
Ji-Man Choi has been placed mysteriously on something called the "restricted list" for a game while he tends to a "personal matter." Imagine, baseball players are allowed to have a private life that actually remains private.
But like last night, the best news of the day was a good IL report: Blake Snell is back in the rotation and will be starting tomorrow's matinee.
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