Tampa Bay Rays news and links: Coming home

The biggest news, which is not, strictly, news at this point, is that the Rays are coming back to Tampa Bay after a home series in Queens. Chris Bumbaca and Oliver Macklin of MLB.com have an article on the return with quotes from the Rays clubhouse.

Meanwhihle, the Cleveland Indians won their twenty-first game in a row. That breaks the major league record. Head over to Let’s Go Tribe to bask in their happiness.

If you’re looking for minor-league, happiness, the Hudson Valley Renegades won the first game of their NY-Penn League championship series with a Brendan McKay walk-off sac fly in the 13th.

For those of you who were confused (or maybe it was just me?), the man on third is Taylor Walls, shortstop, a third-round draft pick out of Florida State. “Bringing in Walls” is not a metaphor for hitting a long home run.

Links

• Everyone is saying that Chris Archer is healthy.
• Everyone is saying that Nathan Eovaldi is healthy.
• Speaking of rehab, as the Red Sox come to town, will David Price be pitching out of the bullpen?
• The Oakland Athletics have a ballpark site.
• Stacey Gotsulias wrote about a game between the Orioles and Blue Jays that happened on September 14, 1987. Why did I link it? Well, I think it’s well written, I like articles memorializing unexceptional things, and also I think that September 14 is a pretty cool day.
• Jeff Sullivan continues to beat the “The Flyball Revolution Is Real” drum.
• Dave Cameron speculates about how rich teams might try to lure Shohei Otani with the option of a long-term contract above what they can offer him by the book right now. Spoiler: Cameron thinks it’d take more than an Evan Longoria/Matt Moore type of deal.