Rays 10, Blue Jays 9
Record: 60-48
Attendance: 24,542
Hollywood script writers who come up with a story line having a major league team give away a seven-run lead going into the late innings and lose the game 10-9--and then reverse the story line for the very next day with the losing team coming back from a seven-run deficit to win in the ninth by the same score would be laughed out of the script-writing business. That could not happen. You have to maintain of semblance of realism in your scripts.
Real life it turns out has no such restrictions. Anything and everything is possible in a baseball game. And so the Tampa Bay Rays on Sunday did indeed comeback after losing by seven in the sixth inning. They chipped away and scored the winning 10th run in the ninth.
And then to add greater drama, manager Kevin Cash called on much maligned (for good reasons) Diego Castillo to get the last two outs of the game. He got two strikeouts. The Rays had finished off the strangest two-game set in the majors this year. Or any year. Back-to-back seven-run comebacks ending in 10-9 victories, one by each team. In one sense this is evidence of the worst two games of the season--but from a different angle, they may be the two best games of the year. Certainly there was a lot of fun and frustration to go around.
In Sunday's game, Toronto jumped out to an early lead, 2-0 after two, 4-0 after three, 8-1 after five. The Rays got three back in the sixth, two more in the seventh, three in the eighth, and the final, go-ahead run in the ninth. Along the way there were homers by Willie Adames and Guillermo Heredia. Case close. Respectability restored. Red Sox in the wings.
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