Cool, quick-thinking gesture by the Rays brass to reward those who hung around through Thursday night’s 36-minute delay. Moments after play resumed, fans were informed beer and soda would be buy-one, get-one-free until last call.
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Seven months shy of his 40th birthday, Albert Pujols can still bring it. His fifth-inning home run to left u2015 off a Ryan Yarbrough breaking ball u2015 was his 12th of the season and 645th of his Hall of Fame career.
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If Yarbrough’s first-inning implosion seemed rare, well, it should have.