The Tampa Bay Rays hope their best path of the season will be better than the first.
The Rays open a 10-game game on Monday, starting with a four-game series against the Boston Red Sox. The Rays went 0-5 in their first game of the season, which took them to Atlanta and Baltimore.
The Rays and Red Sox scored victories on Sunday.
Mitch Moreland’s two-run home run and two outs in the back of the ninth inning gave Boston a 5-3 win over the Toronto Blue Jays in the three-game series rubber game.
The Rays had an RBI at the end of the game without marrying through Michael Perez to defeat the New York Yankees 4-3 for their third win in the four-game series.
“I don’t think anyone here thinks we’re playing our most productive baseball,” Rays manager Kevin Cash said. “But in fact we’re going to take the series we just opposed to New York and maybe we’re going to head in the right direction. “
The show’s victory for the Red Sox is the first this season.
The two games split when the Red Sox visited the Rays last week.
“They’re a smart team,” Moreland said after Sunday’s game. “We have to get that boost in the next series. They’re going to be tough. We have to be in a position to shoot and organize a series opposite those guys.
Cash felt that the former was “a genuine learning experience,” as primary league groups face restrictions similar to those of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Lots of differences, which we knew, but you might not like them as much until you’ve crossed them,” he said. “Now that we have done it, we hope that next time we will be better equipped, more prepared and have a better concept of what we are about to do. “
The Rays will start left-hander Ryan Yarbrough (0-2, 3. 78 MPM) on Monday. The Red Sox is expected to leave with an opener in a bullpen game, but have named who will open. -hander Colten Brewer (0-0, 2. 57) would probably be among the pitchers used.
Boston law Ryan Weber, who began opposing Toronto on Friday, decided to choose the club’s practice site and recalled Dylan Covey law.
Yarbrough allowed innings on Wednesday in the loss to the Red Sox.
It is 3-2 with 5. 36 MPMs in 10 race exits (four openings) against the Red Sox. He is 3-0 with 3. 60 MPM in five appearances (one opening) at Fenway Park. He has won his last three appearances in Boston since April 28, 2018.
The Rays placed right-handed Oliver Drake, one of his trusted top relievers, on the list of bicep tendinitis injury on Sunday.
They also called right reliever Ryan Thompson, decided on the john Curtiss law contract, and activated outfielder Manuel Margot, who had been on the bereavement injury list and then COVID-19 (for admissions tests) after his father’s death. and a house to the Dominican Republic.
They appointed service receiver Kevan Smith and left-handed reliever Sean Gilmartin.
Rays starter Charlie Morton left Sunday’s game in the third inlet with an inflammation in his right shoulder and said after the game that he did not think he would run out of time due to the problem.
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