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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- This was not, as they say in tennis, an unforced error.

Left to his own devices Monday night, Tampa Bay rookie second baseman Ryan Brett, making his first major-league start, surely would have made a successful relay throw to first base, completing what would have been an inning-ending double play begun by Rays pitcher Chris Archer.