ST. PETERSBURG – The once best-in-baseball Rays have been looking up at the Yankees for a while now in the AL East, and more recently the Indians and A’s have passed them in the wild-card race.
Now the Red Sox are coming.
What six weeks ago was an eight-game gap between the teams is down to one as the Rays opened the first of two series in three against the Red Sox on Monday with a 9-4 loss that was worse than it looked.
Just like the Sox are aiming for in posting a 44-29 record since an 11-17 start.