Tag Archives: Tampa Bay Rays
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Latino Band Plays Gig in Rays Clubhouse Before Game Against the Red Sox (Video)
The Tampa Bay Rays do not operate under ideal conditions. They play in a market that has a luke-warm interest in baseball at best, and they play in a stadium that most minor league teams would find unsuitable. Nevertheless, they’ve managed to become an extremely successful franchise in recent years. The key to their success? [...]
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Tampa Bay Rays Sideline Reporter Kelly Nash Captures Near-Death Experience with Selfie, Posts It on Instagram (Photo)
Of all people, you would expect a professional sideline reporter to understand how important it is to never turn your back to the play. If these people aren’t taking beatings themselves, they’re doing interviews with people who did. But apparently some folks just like to throw caution to the wind. You can include Kelly Nash [...]
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Darrelle Revis Threw Out the First Pitch at the Rays-Yankees Game, and He Didn’t Blow It (Video)
Throwing out a ceremonial first pitch sounds like it would be a cool thing to do, but it’s actually just a really elaborate way to embarrass yourself. If you mess up, a whole stadium full of people will laugh at you in person. Then you’ll get home, turn on your computer, discover that you’re on [...]
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Rays Veterans Make The Rookies Dress In Drag And Perform “Call Me Maybe” At Fenway (Video)
Hazing the rookies is a time-honored tradition among pro athletes. Of course, in the olden days, whatever the veterans made the rookies do stayed in the locker room. Today, on the other hand, the veterans capture footage of the acts on their smart phones and upload them to YouTube. So you could say the stakes [...]
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Guy Boucher Delivers Perfect Opening Pitch With A Hockey Stick (Video)
Tampa Bay Lightning head coach Guy Boucher earned full marks for creativity during his opening pitch prior to the Tampa Bay Rays’ home game against the Toronto Blue Jays on Friday, as he delivered the pitch via a wrist shot with a hockey stick. And he also earned a perfect score for execution, as his [...]
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It Was “Star Trek Night” At The Trop in Tampa Last Night (Video)
Earlier this season, the Tampa Bay Rays and nine other teams around Major League Baseball teamed up with Stand Up 2 Cancer and LucasFilms to hold “Star Wars Nights” at the ballpark. I have no idea if these events actually raised any money for cancer research, but we did get to see Darth Vader on [...]
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Stat Line Of The Night — 9/9/12 — B.J. Upton
On most occasions, Jake Shields’ complete-game, two-hit shutout performance would easily be enough to earn him “Stat Line of the Night” honors, but on Sunday, it wasn’t even the most impressive performance from his own team, thanks to B.J. Upton’s terrific outing at the plate. Upton was a force to be reckoned with, as he belted [...]
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Stat Line Of The Night — 8/23/12 — Alex Cobb
Make no mistake about it. Alex Cobb of the Tampa Bay Rays is no David Price. Not even close. But he may someday be a special talent like his team’s ace currently is, and yesterday’s game certainly appeared to be a step in the right direction. Cobb, 24, delivered what was probably the most impressive [...]
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Stat Line Of The Night — 8/15/12 — Felix Hernandez (Perfect Game Video)
Twenty-seven up. Twenty-seven down. That is exactly how you would sum up Felix Hernandez’s performance on the mound yesterday afternoon, as he became just the 23rd player in Major League history – and the 21 in the modern era – to throw a perfect game. Perfect games are supposed to be hard to come by, [...]
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This Fan Danced Like Nobody Was Watching…Because It Was the Trop, and Hardly Anyone Was (Video)
I love baseball and all its idiosyncrasies, but even I’ll admit that the Great American Pastime can be a little slow sometimes. Fortunately, over the years baseball fans have developed a number of ways to cope with the occasional bout of boredom. On Friday night, the Rays and Mariners were tied at three after nine [...]
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Rays Manager Joe Maddon Writes Message On Ball And Tosses It To D.C. Heckler (Video)
The other day, Tampa Bay Rays relief pitcher Joel Peralta got ejected from a game against the Washington Nationals before he even threw a pitch when the umpires discovered he had smeared pine tar on his glove. Afterward, Rays manager Joe Maddon was pretty pissed off, but not at his pitcher. Instead, he was pissed [...]
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Tampa Bay’s Joel Peralta Ejected For Having Pine Tar On His Glove (Video)
With all these newfangled cheaters out there in the world of sports—guys using creams, transfusions and teams of chemists to get a leg up on the competition—every once in a while it’s nice to hear that there are still a few guys who insist on cheating the old-fashioned way. Of course, these old-fashioned cheaters are [...]
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White Sox Announcer Hawk Harrelson Loses It On Umpire Mark Wegner (Video)
There has been no shortage of bad calls throughout the first two months of the 2012 MLB season, and we may have been treated to yet another one earlier today when the Tampa Bay Rays played host to the Chicago White Sox. During yesterday’s meeting between the two teams, White Sox catcher A.J. Pierzynski made [...]
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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 [...]
