On Thursday night, after sweeping the Angels, the Tampa Bay Rays were riding high. They had just won three games against a team with big names playing at .500 baseball. Scoring margin for the three wins was +11. They had just made several big moves that looked to tease us into thinking they just might hang around and make the rest of the season interesting.
Then, newly acquired Tommy Pham gets hit on the foot and goes down for a month. And, the White Sox came to town. If one image could recap the weekend series, it would be this:
Man down.