Rays 10, White Sox 5
Record: 9 - 3
Attendance: 10,799 Just as pathetic as our numbers. Except the Rays are good at 9-3 while the White Sox are struggling at 3-7.
In an ugly game that took nearly four hours to finish, the Rays were happy to escape with a 10-5 victory this afternoon. They celebrated of course. That's what winning teams do. They celebrated Charlie Morton's second win. They celebrated home runs from Brandon Lowe, Austin Meadows, and Avasail Garcia, who went 3 for 5 against his former team, by far his best showing of the year. Maybe he just needed proper motivation. Who knows? Now that he's on board, maybe he'll be the player we expected but haven't seen. Meadows, btw, went 4 for 5 with a walk and four RBIs. I'll say it again: what a deal that is turning out to be, Meadows and Taylor Glasnow for Chris Archer last summer. (Oh, yeah, Archer was just suspended five games for his role in a bean ball affair a few days ago.)
After the offensive fireworks that put the Rays in good position for a quick victory, four relievers nearly gave the game away as hour followed hour. Finally, after 3:56, more than 400 pitches, the curtain closed. They do it again tomorrow afternoon. For the second game in a row, the attendance today was about 10,000, but anyone in Chicago who saw today's fiasco will schedule a root canal instead. They'll be lucky to get 5,000.
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