Rays 5, Tigers 4
Record: 73-52
Attendance: 17,228
Trevor Richards, who came over to the Rays from Miami at the trade deadline with Nick Anderson, started his first game as a Ray on Sunday afternoon. He pitched three and a third innings, giving up eight hits, one walk and two runs. The Rays got one run back in the bottom of the first on a Travis d'Arnaud sacrifice fly, thus scoring in two consecutive innings going back to the bottom of the 13th on Saturday. But then they relapsed into six more scoreless innings before Tommy Pham hit a two-run HR in the bottom of the eighth to narrow Detroit's lead to 4-3.
In the bottom of the ninth, d'Arnaud reached on an error, Willy Adames walked, Kevin Kiermaier tried to bunt the runners over but popped up instead, and Brosseau had an infield single to load the bases. Ji-Man Choi singled up the middle to drive in the tying and winning runs, the Rays second straight walk-off hit. The win went to Jose Alvarado, now 1-5, even though he walked two in the top of the ninth.
The Detroit Tigers with the worst record in ML baseball, weren't supposed to be this hard to beat, but they gave the Rays all they could handle for this weekend series, winning the first game 2-0 and losing the next two by one run, 1-0 in 13 innings and 5-4, which they lost in the bottom of the ninth. All things considered, the Rays will count their blessings, take their two out of three from the Tigers, and move on to play the Seattle Mariners at the Trop on Monday night. Brendan McKay will try once again for his third victory, facing off this time against Marco Gonzales (12-10, 4.26 ERA).
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