Rays 2, Padres 7
Record 71-51
Attendance: 22,886
Jalen Beeks continued his unimpressive recent work giving up five runs in five innings on eight hits and two walks. He was replaced by Jose DeLeon, who finally made his way back from Tommy John surgery, giving up another run in his two innings while striking out three. Colin Poche pitched one inning and gave up yet another run, putting the final score at 7-2. The Rays' two runs came on a promising monster homer from slumping Tommy Pham in the first. But the Rays had no answer for Cal Quantrill,.who improved his record to 6-3, nor for the string of four relievers who kept them scoreless for the last eight innings. In all they were only able to put up five hits after Pham's longball.
The West Coast road trip is over, and the Rays finished it at 5-1--very nice after all, but they must still pick up 23 more wins in the next 40 games. Next up on Friday is Detroit, which has been thinking ahead to next season for months. But two worries have surfaced. First, the Rays have a barely winning record at home this year, 31-28, and second, they are streaky hitters who can sometimes fall into a funk--and Wednesday night's eight scoreless innings to close the game and the grand total of five hits they accumulated might mean another slump is coming on. This will be a good test for the team that has faced test after test all season--and passed most of them.
Let's hope Charlie Morton is up to the job and that the Rays hitters merely hit a bump in the road against Cal Quantrill, an up and coming pitcher with a bright future.
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