Fuck yeah, Tampa Bay Rays

month

August 2010

Our last 7 games:

Runs/Game: 4.6 Home runs: 9 Starter ERA: 2.79 Bullpen: 0 ER in 14.2 innings; 6/6 saves

July 2010

Carl Crawford numbers:

400th stolen base of his career, 38th of the season. He is now the 7th player to accomplish this before he turned 29. He needs one more triple to reach his 100th before August 5th, which would place him with the almighty Ty Cobb to be the only two players in the modern era to accomplish this feat.

Fan hit by broken bat.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP)—A fan seated behind the first-base dugout was injured by part of a broken bat in the sixth inning of the New York Yankees’ game at Tampa Bay on Friday night. The barrel of the bat of the Yankees’ Robinson Cano went into stands on his single. Stadium medical personal treated the fan in the seating area and put a brace on his neck, then used a back board to take the fan for...

“I guess my grandkids will have something to talk about.”

– Matt Garza, talking with MLB Network after they ask him after 100 years, when people look up in the record books and they see the name Matt Garza as being the first Rays no-hitter. My team is so humble, it almost kills me. Yanks, learn a lesson!

games played before a Tampa Bay pitcher threw a no-hitter. The only two teams left to throw one? The Padres and the Mets.

Why is life so weird?

I have been to 20+ games thus far this year, but I missed tonight’s game because I was working. Would I have missed work tonight had I known what was going to happen? Hell.. yes. I have been at the game the flip-side of the no-hitter, with Jackson, but tonight has made me happy and very proud. I was wondering when this phenomenal event would happen and I plan on collecting 8+ papers...

is the number of stolen bases Carl Crawford has as of today. Prior MLB stolen base leaders in the AL: 2003 Carl Crawford, TB 55 2004 Carl Crawford, TB 59 2005 Chone Figgins, LA Ang 62 2006 Carl Crawford, TB 58 2007 Carl Crawford, TB 50

“Ladies and gentleman, that’s precisely the reason why one should always...”

– Brian Anderson, after Crawford’s injury. In the same article: “By the way, is anyone else shocked by the fact that a major-league baseball player such as Crawford was playing without a cup? Oh, by the way, nice catch by Orioles’ first baseman Ty Wigginton. Way to move your feet and...

“I’ve always been amazed that everybody doesn’t. When I coached third...”

– Joe Maddon, on wearing a cup after Crawford’s little… incident, we’ll call it. A contusion there is not a fun contusion.

It's the top of the 4th inning,

and there have been 7 hits in this game, 6 have been home runs. Baltimore HR total: 4; 2 being off the bat of Luke Scott, who was just activated off the DL last night, and another coming from Wigginton, a former Ray. The last? I don’t remember, haha. Our HR total: 2 (Upton and Joyce). .. just wow.

“You go to New York and there’s a lot of emotion. Then you come here and it’s not...”

– Joe Maddon being extremely gracious to his Baltimore hosts despite an announced attendance of only 12, 792. I think I’ve been to backyard barbecues that were more…vibrant than Orioles games this season. (via oldtimefamilybaseball)

“Pretty brutal.”

– Price, after allowing a season-high seven runs over five innings. I, personally, will place blame on the 100 degree heat.