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Livan Hernandez Heckles Ball Boy, Showers Him With Seeds (Video)
Major League baseball players are often on the receiving end of the heckling, whether it is the result of a blown catch, a wild pitch, or a base-running blunder. After playing 15 seasons in the Majors, Atlanta Braves reliever Livan Hernandez has probably been on the receiving end of his fair share of heckling, but [...]
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Rays Fan Faceplants Onto Field While Reaching For Foul Ball (Video)
Little has gone wrong for the Tampa Bay Rays’ players within the friendly confines of Tropicana Field this season (they are 14-3 at home thus far). Unfortunately, the same can not be said for the Rays’ fans. Earlier in the month we provided you with footage of the magical home run ball that bounced off [...]
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Blue Jays’ Brett Lawrie Hit the Umpire With His Helmet Last Night (Video)
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: umpires have a tough job. Players and fans alike demand nothing short of perfection from the men in blue, and that’s just not possible. But it’s one thing to err—it is human, after all—and quite another to be an incompetent douche. Last night in Toronto, in [...]
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Stat Line Of The Night – 5/10/12 – C.C. Sabathia
Going into Thursday night, the New York Yankees were 16-14, one game behind the Toronto Blue Jays. The Yankees sent their ace C.C. Sabathia to the mound to face off against the Tampa Bay Rays’ ace David Price, who had won his last four consecutive starts. The Yankees were looking for a strong start from [...]
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Home Run Ball Bounces Off Man’s Crotch Into Woman’s Face (Video)
Perhaps this home run ball, which bounced off the groin of one man before striking his woman in the face, was simply foreshadowing the events that would take place between this couple later in the evening. Whatever the case may be, this isn’t the first time a Rays fan has taken a homer to the [...]
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This Day In Sports History (March 9th) – Rays and Diamondbacks
It was on this day in 1995 that Major League Baseball awarded the city of Tampa Bay and the state of Arizona with MLB teams. Tampa Bay would be known as the “Devil Rays” (now known as simply the “Rays”) while the club from Arizona would be called the “Diamondbacks.” Tampa would be placed in [...]
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Rays’ Elliot Johnson Give Us His Tim Kurkjian Impersonation (Video)
Tim Kurkjian impersonations appear to be all the rage in Major League Baseball these days. After watching Toronto Blue Jays catcher J.P. Arencibia unveil his squeakiest voice during an interview with Terry Francona on ESPN’s Baseball Tonight, Elliot Johnson of the Tampa Bay Rays wanted Kurkjian to know that Arencibia wasn’t the only player in [...]
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Nice Prediction Dan Shaughnessy (Video)
With the Tampa Bay Rays trailing the New York Yankees by a score of 7-0 in the bottom of the eighth and the Boston Red Sox leading the Baltimore Orioles 3-2 during a rain delay in the seventh inning, Dan Shaughnessy uttered the words, “I think the one thing that we have eliminated tonight is [...]
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Here Is A Timeline Graph Detailing The Red Sox Epic Collapse
According to the folks at SportsClubStats.com, the Boston Red Sox entered the 2011 MLB season with a 27.33% chance of making the post-season. After losing their first six game of the season, their chances of making the playoffs fell to 3.81%. Following a loss to the Toronto Blue Jays on April 15, they would fall [...]
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Rays Fan Takes Dan Johnson’s Game-Tying Home Run To The Groin (Video)
When Dan Johnson connected on a two-out, 2-2 pitch in the bottom of the ninth and sent it over the right field fence at Tropicana Field, there was one fan in the stands that was left feeling exactly like the Red Sox must have felt at that moment. In the case of the Sox, they [...]
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Stat Line Of The Night — 9/28/11 — Evan Longoria And The Tampa Bay Rays
You couldn’t have written a better script than that. Sure, the St. Louis Cardinals’ run that saw them come from 8.5 games back of the Atlanta Braves to capture the NL Wild Card on the final day of the season was pretty impressive, but how about what unfolded in the MLB’s other Wild Card race [...]
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Who Is This Kid And Why Is He Getting So Many Gifts? (Video)
A few autographs on his hat, a ball, a signed bat and cotton candy? Seriously though, is this kid dying? What’s with all the gifts? Many of these baseball players are good guys and all, but when Derek Jeter and Johnny Damon are signing your hat, another Yankees player is handing you a ball, and [...]
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Here Is Another Cirque du Soleil Opening Pitch (Video)
Three weeks ago the San Diego Padres invited a performer from Cirque du Soleil to throw out the opening pitch prior to their game against the Kansas City Royals. It gained plenty of coverage on both sports blogs and sports news shows, and its success caused the Tampa Bay Rays to try something similar last [...]
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It Was Raining Glass In Tropicana Field Last Night (Video)
During their franchise’s 14 years of existence, the Tampa Bay Rays have never experienced a rain delay at home. That is largely due to the fact that they have been playing within the enclosed dome of Tropicana Field. But while the dome may be able to prevent any rain from falling onto the field and [...]
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The Stat Line Of The Night — 7/10/11 — C.C. Sabathia
Every team in Major League Baseball wants to head into the All-Star break on a winning note. The Yankees were looking to just that against their division rivals, the Tampa Bay Rays. It would not be an easy task, as the Rays sent All-Star pitchers James Shields to the mound, but luckily for the Yankees, [...]
