ST. PETERSBURG — The unnecessarily dramatic ending aside, the Rays felt pretty good about what transpired Sunday in securing a 5-4 victory and a series win over the previously red-hot A's.
"It showed me that we got a really good team here,'' rookie SS Willy Adames said.
Like many of their other 82 wins, Sunday's was a team effort.
That included extraordinary pitching from the first of their eight-man crew, Diego Castillo, Andrew Kittredge (who got a second straight win), Hunter Wood, Jaime Schultz and Adam Kolarek combining for eight shutout innings and only three hits, none until one out in the fifth.