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Tampa Bay Rays News and Links: Everything is awful and we can't have nice things, just cancel the rest of the season

Kevin Kiermaier will likely be out of action until late July

By Adam Sanford May 22, 2016, 9:00am EDT

Earlier this month, the Rays lost arguably their best player for at least a month if not more and now, thanks to an unfortunate dive, the Rays will be without the best defender in the game for almost two months.

Truly a crushing blow, and to make matters worse, the Rays let a winnable game slip away due to another poor performance from the bullpen ending their four game win streak and placing them back even at .500

Rays Links:

- In Topkin's Rays tales he has several members of the team look back at their first career hits with Longoria, Baldelli, as well as others telling their stories

- Kevin Kiermaier knew as soon as he hit the ground something was wrong, here's Topkin's complete story and the abbreviated tweet version below

#Rays Kiermaier got emotional in talking about the injury and more so not being able to play for "quite a while" and help the team
— Marc Topkin (@TBTimes_Rays) May 21, 2016

#Rays Kiermaier: "I heard it crack right away. ... I was in a lot of pain obviously. I knew something was broke right away."
— Marc Topkin (@TBTimes_Rays) May 21, 2016