Rays 1, White Sox 2
Record: 56-45
Attendance: 16,338
It wasn't thunder you heard at the end of the Rays' game on Saturday night, just an enormous thud as the Rays landed on their backsides yet again.
They went into the ninth inning up 1-0, the result of Ryan Yarbrough's six innings of two-hit baseball, and Avasail Garcia's monster, 459-foot homer against his former team. This time Yarbrough was the starter, not the opener, not the bulkman, just the plain, old-fashioned starter, and he did a hell of a job, picking up right where he left off on July 14, when as the bulk man, he pitched six innings of perfect baseball against the Orioles.
But then the bullpen brigade took over, teasing us with two and a third innings of good work before the ball was put in the hands of Emilio Pagan, who seemed to be doing well himself until All Star catcher James McCann put an off-balance swing on a ball sweeping away from him and got just enough of it to clear the left field wall. Game tied going into the 10th. And the 11th, when Yoan Moncada led off with a walk off Adam Kolarek. When he tried to steal second, Jose Abreu dribbled a grounder to right, so Moncada kept running--all the way home. And that's how it ended, 2-1 White Sox.
And that's the thud you heard at quarter of ten last night from Tropicana Field.
The question now has to be, will they ever win another game?
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