Monday, August 5. Game 114: Rays grade out at zero in first game against the Blue Jays

Rays 0, Blue Jays 2

Record: 65-49

Attendance:  11,948


It may be the Rays failed to understand the importance of beating the teams they're supposed to beat.  Or maybe the Blue Jays newest phenom Bo Bichette didn't get the memo.   Hitting leadoff, he doubled and scored the first run of the game in the first inning, and then homered in the third to put the game away.  Which the Rays facilitated by getting only five hits all night and by going 0-8 with runners in scoring position.  They were complicit in their own demise.

Charlie Morton lost the game (now 12-4 with an ERA of 2.77), despite going seven strong innings where he gave up seven hits and struck out 9.

The Rays had better wake up as a team or all the schedule advantages of the next month will dissolve into meaningless and lost opportunities.