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A victory today will give the Rays their best two-team homestand (6-1). Even if they lose, though, they’re guaranteed to remain in first place alone because the Red Sox (a half-game back) are idle and have two more losses than Tampa Bay. That means the Rays have clinched a team record for consecutive days in first place after the first week of the season (three).
The Rays also have matched the team record for days better than .500 during a season (25, matching 1999), which means that record will fall tomorrow.
This is Scott Kazmir’s 100th career start. He has 624 career strikeouts. The most strikeouts for a pitcher through 100 starts in the past 50 years was 749 by Dwight Gooden.
After yesterday’s newsiness, nothing much shaking out here today for the rare 4:10 p.m. getaway day start. The only items of interest regarding the lineup is Cliff Floyd moving up a spot to fifth (Joe Maddon said it was because the Yankees have no lefty relievers) and Dioner Navarro gets a day off in favor of C Shawn Riggans, who hasn’t played since May 4 at Boston.
UPDATE: Jason Bartlett was scratched late because of what is being referred to as a family matter. Ben Zobrist takes his place at SS and will bat ninth.
The lineups:
Yankees:
Damon, LF
Cabrera, CF
Jeter, SS
Giambi, DH
Duncan, RF
Ensberg, 1B
Cano, 2B
Gonzalez, 3B
Molina, C
Kennedy, P
Rays:
Iwamura, 2B
Crawford, LF
Upton, CF
Pena, 1B
Floyd, DH
Longoria, 3B
Hinske, RF
Riggans, C
Zobrist, SS
Kazmir, P
Posted by Eugene McColgan, Lutz on 05/16 at 01:15 PM
Mark,
I took the afternoon off and my wife and I came over from Lutz to the game. You may be right though about Glover. We would have sent the Yankees out with a shutout if he had been able to get a couple of outs. The rest of the pen stepped up and took care of business.
Posted by Mark, Orlando on 05/16 at 12:38 AM
Great homestand, now if some Tampa fans would actually go to the games. Also,
Keeping Glover over Dohmann is a mistake.G-lover stunk last year and has stunk his two outings off the DL. he throws hard, but walks too many , gives up too many big hits. Dohmann is more versitile, and at their age, Percival and Reyes are just a pitch away from
arm problems.
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Posted by Rick C, Tampa, FL on 05/16 at 03:05 PM
A win is all that matters. And Glover wasn’t terrible last year. Was he off yesterday, absolutely. But he also is just off of the DL and his mechanics were bad (probably in response to the shoulder injury that put him on the DL). He wasn’t getting over the top of the ball and thus it was staying up in the zone with little to no movement.
And btw, Glover is a better pitcher than Dohmann. But that is what depth is for. If Glover gets better than he stays, if not then we recall Dohmann (assuming he clears waivers) or someone else to take his spot. At least we’re not stuck with Ruddy Lugo and Camp like last year.