Rays 6, Indians 2
Record: 30-19
Attendance: 25,882
Delivering one of his best games of the year, Charlie Morton tossed six innings of one run, three-hit and two-walk baseball keeping the Cleveland Indians off balance and earning his fifth win of the year without a loss. Casey Sadler gave up a home run to Carlos Santana in the bottom of the eighth. Diego Castillo finished it out.
Morton was supported by three long balls, by Tommy Pham (8), Brandon Lowe (11), and Ji-Man Choi (4). In all the Rays had 12 hits on the night, and though they won handily, they left 15 on base, always a troublesome statistic.
The LOB problem is illustrated by their futility with the bases loaded, a pathetic 5 for 35 (.143), if the Tampa Bay Times statistics today can be trusted. In the fourth inning, they loaded the bases with one out , but Kevin Kiermaier and Travis d'Arnaud struck out. A too familiar pattern.
The game was scheduled to begin at 4:10 but was delayed nearly three hours for an imminent rain that never came.
The Rays are back up to eleven games over .500, a strong statistic.
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