Rays 3, Red Sox 2
Record: 58-47
Attendance: 24,161
It didn't seem much different from so many Rays games decided by a single run. They were playing the surging division rival Boston Red Sox, who sent David Price to the mound. The way things have been going for the Rays recently, another one-run loss would have been routine.
Except that's not the script for Wednesday's game. Charlie Morton outpitched Price, going seven strong innings and giving up only five hits and two runs over 105 pitches. He struck out 11 and walked none. And then, amazingly given the way the bullpen has been giving up runs and games of late, Adam Kolarek and Chaz Roe worked a clean eighth and gave the ball to Emilio Pagan, who pitched the ninth and earned his seventh save.
So clean and neat it might have been April all over again.
They got a run from Tommy Pham's homer in the fourth and then two more runs in the fifth, one scoring on a Joey Wendle single, and the other coming home on Guillermo Heredia's double. And that was it for scoring. Both teams were held to five hits, but as it turned out, that was all the Ray's needed.
The victory kept the Rays from being swept, and it was especially welcome, needed even, for their collective egos, as they have a day off tomorrow to savor the win before starting a three-game set against Toronto on Friday. The Red Sox loom again on Tuesday the 30th, so the Rays had better find a way to get better fast.
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