ST. PETERSBURG – You would like to believe this is rock bottom.
After all, it’s not often a team manages to lose three games, make countless blunders on defense and fall from first to third in the wild card standings in barely 30 hours.
And yet, the way the Rays are playing, this could get much worse.
Coming off a lackluster doubleheader sweep in New York, and facing a team that had not won since the All-Star break, the Rays were throttled 9-2 by the White Sox in front of an announced crowd of 16,971 at Tropicana Field on Friday night.