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Yesterday afternoon, the Rays were defeated by the Toronto Blue Jays, despite an excellent performance from Chris Archer and also the fact that the Blue Jays lost their starting pitchers after just one inning. It was another late inning blown lead that did the Rays in as they lost 3-1.
The loss gave the Rays a final record of 12-14 for the month of April.
- The Rays take on the Miami Marlins tonight, Jake Odorizzi will be activated from the disabled list prior to the game
- Steven Souza Jr sat out of yesterday’s game after being hit in the hand on Saturday
- Perhaps related to Steven Souza Jr being hit, Chris Archer behind Jose Bautista during the first inning of the game yesterday prompting a warning to both benches...Blue Jays Manager John Gibbons had some words about it
#BlueJays Gibbons on #Rays Archer throwing behind Bautista: "I would expect there has got to be some kind of suspension.''
— Marc Topkin (@TBTimes_Rays) April 30, 2017
#BlueJays Gibbons cited suspension of #RedSox Barnes re: Machado, said he'd be "disappointed" if no "whatever the word is, continuity."
— Marc Topkin (@TBTimes_Rays) April 30, 2017
- Colby Rasmus is close to making his Rays debut as his rehab is almost finished. He homered yesterday for Montgomery
Sounds like Rasmus will play rehab game today with @BiscuitBaseball then join #Rays in Miami Monday to workout, activated Tues or Weds
— Marc Topkin (@TBTimes_Rays) April 30, 2017
Rasmus is feeling better. After two days of rest, Colby hits a 410 ft home run to centerfield to put the Biscuits up 2-0! pic.twitter.com/ruhzVZzswr
— Montgomery Biscuits (@BiscuitBaseball) April 30, 2017
- The Process Report looked into Alex Cobb
- Anthony Rendon and the Nationals obliterated the Mets yesterday. Rendon went 6-6 with 3 HR and 10 RBI
- Some terrible news for the Nationals though, as they may be without Adam Eaton for the rest of the season after he tore his ACL
- Tim Tebow is still playing in professional baseball in case you were wondering
- Noah Syndergaard was pulled from his latest start with an apparent injury