The Rays lost another one-run game. Weird. How often does that happen? On the plus side, we hit two dingers. On the down side, we needed a little more, as the hometown nine came up short, 3-2.
Opener Ryne Stanek wriggled out of trouble in a 25 pitch first after allowing two of the first three hitters to reach (on a walk and a single) to put runners at the corners. He rebounded to Justin Bour, getting ahead 0-2 on nice splitter. Bour popped out on the next pitch. A long at bat to Castro followed, with Stanek finally getting the swinging K on the seventh pitch of the at bat on another sweet splitter.