If you simply checked the final score of this game you might not realize that for eight innings it was one heck of a pitchers duel.
On the Rays end, Aaron Civale had another very good game, which is encouraging, especially coming after Eflin’s elite performance yesterday. He gave up four hits and two walks while striking out eight in six innings. Unfortunately one of those hits was Corey Seager’s homerun in the sixth, which is why poor Aaron gets the “L” next to his name, and why when the Rays came into the ninth inning trailing we maybe didn’t get our best bullpen option (more on that below).