Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
August 05, 2008
Out of Reach

The Tampa Bay Rays used three balls out of reach to put the game out of reach against the Cleveland Indians tonight. Longoria, Floyd and Navarro all homered in the seventh, turning a 4-3 lead into an 8-3 rout. The Indians bullpen is now allowing an average of 30 home runs per 200 innings. Rafael Betancourt, who allowed two of the dingers, has now given up 11 homers in 47 1/3 innings, a rate of 46.5 over 200 innings.

The Rays win by a final score of 8-4.


Posted by David Pinto at 11:11 PM | Games | TrackBack (0)
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Evan Longoria's home run was absolutely amazing. He hit 2 ball that would have been home runs foul during that ab. It was stupendous. Just brilliant.

Posted by: Tyler at August 6, 2008 01:05 AM

He did a nice job, but you gotta admit that Bentancourt was grovin' him batting practice softballs, middle plate and high!

Posted by: Zippercat at August 6, 2008 12:15 PM
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