Tampa Bay Rays

Yeah.

Doesn't sound like it, and unfortunately for them, I mean, Tampa Bay just keeps winning and winning and winning, and I thought this little nine-game series that they had up until yesterday, they had to go like 8-1, 9-0, which they almost did, and yesterday they strike out 17 times.

They got the bases loaded in extra innings.

They hit the ball back to the pitcher, and it's a 1-2-3 double play.

Yeah, shadows.

But it was frustrating for sure for Yankee fans yesterday, especially with the judge news and all that that goes with that.

But I just think, you know, basically it's going to come down to having to beat the Red Sox in the wild card round and then going to beat the Rays.

That's what it's going to come down to.

Yeah.

Doesn't sound like it, and unfortunately for them, I mean, Tampa Bay just keeps winning and winning and winning, and I thought this little nine-game series that they had up until yesterday, they had to go like 8-1, 9-0, which they almost did, and yesterday they strike out 17 times.

They got the bases loaded in extra innings.

They hit the ball back to the pitcher, and it's a 1-2-3 double play.

Yeah, it does.

Essentially, just everybody needs to stay healthy.

Everybody just needs to get ready to rock and roll and take on the Red Sox and hammer them and then show Tampa Bay exactly what a $380 million payroll can do.

And why not? Got to have the confidence.

Yankees' hopes of winning the ALEs took a big hit yesterday.

The Rays won.

Meantime, they lost the game in 13 in Minnesota.

Ground ball up the middle, off the mound.

So the Yankees are off tonight.

They'll be in Arizona over the weekend.

The Yankees now four and a half out because the Rays did beat the A's 4-3.

And one clarification from last hour, we played that drop pop-up or missed pop-up.

For the Yankees, they lost to the Twins 5-4 in 13.

The Rays did win as well.

The other issue is Aaron Judge left after five with a lower body injury, a leg injury.

When did the injury creep up?

They'll be in Arizona over the weekend.

Four and a half games behind the Reds.

Rays because the A's beat the Rays yesterday 4-3.

Not much with the Mets other than the fact they lost to the Orioles 7-1.

They'll be in Arizona over the weekend.

The Yankees now 88-64, four and a half games behind the Rays, who did win last night.

They beat the A's, so that's where that is in the division.

It'll be the Yankees and Diamondbacks starting tomorrow night.

It's not...

I mean, the Rays never lose.

The Rays are and have been consistently one of the better teams in baseball.

I mean, they've had a couple spurts of time.

I don't want to use the word spurts, but a couple... instances where they've struggled, but for the most part they've been...

Who knows what that means for Aaron Judge.

But you've got 10 games left.

You're down just because the Rays have played one less game, four and a half.

But I want to know if the American League is as wide open as we believe it is, Does he take the Guardians a little bit more seriously where you have two of the top-end pitchers in the American League in Gavin Williams and Parker Messick? If Jose Ramirez is getting back into form, rounding back into form and able to play through that injury and be comfortable and get some hits for us, can that change their fortunes a little bit? Yeah, I got to wonder.

Because I know the Rays are fantastic.

All right, we're going to have to be cognizant of them.

But if you win the division, we don't have to see the Rays right off the rip.

2-1-6-4-7-4-double-0-92.

So yesterday was a wonderful atmosphere.

Take

it.

Good morning.

So Hillsborough commissioners took another step forward for the proposed Tampa Bay Rays stadium.

They approved the Tampa Sports Authority as the county representative to review the design and construction documents for the ballpark.

So they would have to answer questions.

But you know what? It's moving forward, and this is the next step.

So here's my question.

This project that's going to cost $300,000, basically it's reviewing the Rays' design and their construction plans and making sure what ends up getting built complies with the stadium agreements.

Yeah.

But, I mean, this is prime sports season right now.

It's Tampa's year.

No, it's not.

This is prime sports season.