

How I Stacked Up
Here's what the '3 Up, 3 Down' you see on the sidebar (based strictly on my opinion) would have looked like had I gone with Win Probability...
3 Up
LF Carl Crawford: 2.9 WPA
3B Aubrey Huff: 2.2 WPA
SS Julio Lugo: 0.3 WPA
2B Ty Wigginton: -3.3 WPA
DH Jonny Gomes: -7.3 WPA
3 Down
SP Scott Kazmir: -17.9 WPA
DH Jonny Gomes: -7.3 WPA
2B Jorge Cantu: -7.1 WPA
RP Travis Harper: -2.6 WPA
RP Chad Harville: -0.1 WPA
My Thoughts
-When your staff ace pitches badly, your bullpen lives up to its reputation, and you manage just five hits, tradition says you will lose. And the Rays obliged that tradition, dropping the second game of their three game series on 6/6/06 against Anaheim with a 12-2 loss. The Rays were never really in the game after they lost their 1-1 tie early, as you can see above. Anaheim slowly chipped away at Kazmir before the floodgates opened in the later innings, as Anaheim layed 10 on the Rays in the final four innings.
It just wasn't the Rays night, and the only reason I watched this game as long as I did (six or seven innings) is because I wanted to see how they (broadcasters, team officials interviewed) could possibly pretend that Longoria was not a signability pick. After the draft talk died down and the floodgates open, the remote went click.
About Last Night...
St. Petersburg Times
The Tampa Tribune
DevilRays.com
Angels.com
Fan Graphs
League of Angels
Orange County Register
Long Beach Press-Telegram
Los Angeles Times