Rays 8, Dodgers 1
Record: 28-18
Attendance: 12,826
Nothing shuts up a rant about the Rays' weaknesses better than a good performance--for a change. And that's just what they got across the board. Eight runs, ten hits, and no errors. The visiting Dodgers got one run on five hits, and committed one error. It was a scoreless game until the bottom of the fourth when Tommy Pham homered for the first run of the night. The Dodgers tied it in the top of the sixth, but the Rays blew it open with a seven-run seventh that featured a pair of two-run homers, from Avisail Garcia and Kevin Kiermaier.
And Kiermaier put on a show in center field too, fielding a single that bounced right up to him and throwing on the run to catch Cody Bellinger at the plate. The throw was clocked at 100 mph. Well, shut my mouth. That's Kiermaier at his best. Three cheers.
In a rare start (this time in right), Guillermo Heredia, the 29-year-old Cuban star who came over from Seattle with Mike Zunino in the Mallex Smith trade over the winter, had three hits and is hitting .280. This is a first-rate spare part.
On the mound, Ryne Stanek opened and was followed by Yonny Chirinos, who gave up the only run to the Dodgers, a solo blast from Max Muncy, his tenth of the year. Adam Kolarek and Emilio Pagan (who got the W) combined with tonight's closer Casey Sadler to put this snoozer to bed.
This is how Rays baseball is supposed to work.
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