![]() ![]() He reached the mark in his 407th game, 25 games quicker than the previous Blue Jays mark shared by Vernon Wells and Shannon Stewart. Springer’s 53rd leadoff homer tied Craig Biggio for third, behind Rickey Henderson’s 81 and Alfonso Soriano hit 54.īichette had an RBI double in the second for a 2-0 lead and his 500th hit. Springer homered on the night’s second pitch from Drew Rasmussen (2-1), who pitched 13 innings in his first two starts. Against the Blue Jays they trailed after all nine. Tampa Bay trailed at the end of an inning just six times entering Friday. ![]() But we’re solely focussed on winning the series.” “Guys are excited to play big series,” Toronto manager John Schneider said. Toronto, the first Rays opponent this season with a winning record, has won eight of 10. Those four teams are currently in last place in their divisions. The Rays went unbeaten in 13 games against Detroit, Washington, Oakland, and Boston. Tampa Bay’s 13-0 record matched the 1982 Atlanta Braves and 1987 Milwaukee Brewers, trailing only the 20-0 start by the 1884 St. “Not much went our way tonight,” Rays manager Kevin Cash said. George Springer hit a leadoff home run and Bo Bichette had five hits and an RBI as the Blue Jays denied Tampa Bay’s bid to establish Major League Baseball’s post-1900 record for consecutive wins at a season’s start. You kind of put them all in the same kind of category, you know? Every win is great. “There’s no loss that feels any worse or any better than any other ones. The Rays lost their first game following a record-tying 13-0 start as Colin Poche forced in two runs with bases-loaded walks and second baseman Brandon Lowe made a key error in a four-run fifth inning that lifted the Toronto Blue Jays to a 6-3 win on Friday night. I wish him nothing but the best of luck in his future endeavors.įollow (AP) Waiting two weeks to experience their first loss of the season didn’t make defeat any easier for the Tampa Bay Rays. Indeed, expect the man behind the bird to show up on talk radio and stuff, telling his side of the story, pretty darn soon. And now that he’s been fired, it’s hard to imagine that we will not hear a lot more from him as he attempts to cash in on his infamy. It’s hard to figure that the guy who plays Mr. It’s against team policy, you see, for anyone but top officials to speak on mascot-obscenity-related matters. That according to the Associated Press, who learned about it from a Mets official who was speaking on condition of anonymity. Met suit last night and who flipped the bird. Or, more specifically, they have fired the man who was in the Mr. While one might say that this was merely an instance of life imitating art given how obscenely bad the Mets have played of late, the club did not take it that way. You can watch it here if you (a) can handle an obscene gesture and (b) are not in a place where you will get in trouble for laughing so hard coffee shoots out of your nose. Met made an obscene gesture to some fans. ![]()
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