Rays of Light

Twins Rally In 9th To Top Rays In Wild Game

By Joel Verlin  |  September 18th, 2008  |  Posted in Game Recap  

Opening salvos actually had the Rays answering the Twins 3 run first with 5 runs of their own. Evan Longoria and Dioner Navarro had homers for the Rays in the first along with a double from Gross. The Twins then cut the Rays lead to one in the 3^rd. Carlos Pena and Evan Longoria had homers to extend the Rays lead 7 – 4. Twins answered yet again with a 2 run 7^th cutting the Rays lead to 7 – 6. Evan Longoria then homered in the 7^th to make it 8 to 6. The Twins then had their amazing rally that saw a 5 run 9^th (Delmon Young contributed with a single.) Willie Aybar pinched hit for Jason Bartlett and struck out looking. Carlos Pena and Evan Longoria both grounded out to end the game.

The Good To Take Away: Even though the Rays have lost 8 of their last 13 games the Rays offense has been better then usual. The Rays had 5 runs in the Monday loss, 2 runs in the Tuesday win (that’s all they needed thanks to Sonnastine’s pitching effort and the bullpen relief), 10 runs in the Wednesday win and 8 Runs in tonight’s loss. No one could have foreseen the Twins 9^th tonight. That’s at least 3 out of 4 nights with 5 runs or above. Also, Evan Longoria became the 3^rd youngest third baseman to hit three homers in a single game in the expansion era (1961)

It’s anyone’s guess as to how the next two games will go with Jackson getting the nod tomorrow and then Kazmir gets a chance Saturday night to erase Monday from all our minds.

The magic number is still at ten. The Rays lost a half a game as Boston was off tonight.

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