ST. PETERSBURG -- Little goes right when a team finds itself in a funk. Thursday night's 5-4 loss to the Mariners moved the Rays' losing streak to seven, and the baseball gods seemed to have a bone to pick with them.
Like in the second, when the Mariners got three squib singles through the vacated right side of the infield. On the third of those hits, right fielder Carlos Gomez threw to shortstop Daniel Robertson covering second. Meanwhile, David Freitas raced home to score the Mariners' third run.
Igniting that three-run inning was none other than Denard Span, who led off with a walk against Austin Pruitt.