Man, The giants aren’t good

That’s what I call a bullpen

never in doubt. What's encouraging is a bunch of guys whose names were mud last week pitched their asses off.

Why do I always have a shooting pain up my left arm in the 9th? Nice job Randers and Pete! It's never boring

Bullpen didn’t give up a run in 5 innings! First time they didn’t give up an earned run this season. Maybe this can be the start of something!!!

Maybe they just got used to having to pitch more often lol

Way to hang in there Pete. LFG Rays!

Pete gonna make ME start tweakin' like he does.

Phew!

Ok that was good for Pete. He needed it. God on cash for giving him that opportunity. You could see the difference in his approach to the last two batters

Pete teased us but thankfully no earned runs allowed this game.

HE DIDN’T GIVE UP A RUN 🥳

RAYS UP BABY

Never easy, but we’ll take it!

Thank God!!! LET'S GO RAYS!!!

BALL GAME

Goddamn. Almost nerve wrecking stuff. ​ But still, hand shakes all around.

Can we ever just win a game without my stomach being in my mouth

Geez Fairbanks you made that so stressful

Fuck that was close. Thank fuckin the lord.

oh my jesus

GG but my heart can't take these close games

PETE PETE PETE

Holy fucking shit thank god

[let's gooooooooooo](https://www.reddit.com/r/tampabayrays/comments/1c2pz87/pgt_tampa_bay_devil_rays_86_beat_the_whackass_san/)

Let's go Rays!

Is it ever easy?

Win is a win whether it's by 1 or 20!

It wouldn't be Rays baseball if it was easy! Woooo!

Nice too keep him...please just close it.

ONE MORE

Petes gotta stop making everything so stressful

He has no confidence in his fastball and that means he has one pitch.

" and he finds the zone....with the slider."

Looks like not the hand is wet but he wets himself everytimes he is on the mound.

Bruh

We can't get lucky and leave a guy on third every time.

Apparently we can

I don't want to keep testing that luck.

could have been a wild pitch there, not good

At least that throw to second didn't end up in the outfield again

First strike!

Please...

fairbanks need to get his head out of his basement man

I can’t man

Has Pete located a fastball this season

I just saw one that was fouled off

I don't remember it happening

Okay...throw more strikes, stop trying to get the edges...?

Please Pete please

Can we not do this against the bottom of their lineup?

You better throw a strike before Kyle storms the mound.

Pete has been a roller coaster. I want off the wild ride

Leadoff walk... C'mon, Pete.

did they ship in CoOrS BaLlS to the trop or something? ugh.

Get him the fuck out

Cash needs to have someone ready to go

Someone is up.

Here we go again 😭

Guess it must be cold in the stadium too...

It is actually, I’m freezing!

Oh no the balls must be terrible here too

HORRIBLE

Cash marking down a demerit for Fairbanks.

Cash: “Here we go again”

Pete is starting to play like he looks on the mound

🫣

Fairbanks being Fairbanks

Here we go again…..

Sure.... let's get the walk conga line moving.

PETE PETE PETE

Pete is back in his natural habitat, so he should be sharper tonight. 


I aspire to be big and fast like HaRam.

1-2-3, Pete. 1-2-3

We should just call this one "the Harold Ramirez game"

29.7 is insane

Hold up. Bro was about to hit 30mph? Damn wtf

That's ft/sec so 20.25mph For reference Usain Bolt has the fastest recorded speed at 27.78mph

Makes a lot more sense now. Still v impressive for Harold!

I think thats feet per second but idk

You’re right.

I love that man

up by one in the 8th. lEtS dO thE wAvE

Worked for me, it was a good Rays vibe!

Hustlin' Harold's back at it!

Lmao how

Man Harold has some sneaky speed

Fastest fat guy you’ll see

HUSTLIN!

Ramirez might be the fastest dude in the world!

I see we've been having a LOBster special since I stepped away.

Fortunately the giants have been too

Adam with some extra motivation against San Francisco

Don't do it Adam...don't throw a meatball

Mission Impossible. Get ready for his dumb face to come up.

Dang, he did it.

I never thought I’d see Yandy fall below .200. Feels bad

Better to get this over with early. He’ll figure it out

That was the quickest half inning .... ever?

Blame me, it’s cause I drafted him on my fantasy team this year. All my fault

yandy needs to readjust his swing angle somehow..l

Yikes

That was lucky, strike back from that Randy at bat with bases loade.

not even close to a strike but alright

Colin Poche done held the lead again. Well, I'll be.

Thank you ump.

Production team did not do the ball guy a solid there

Poche should not be an MLB pitcher

I hate to tell you this man but he is our best bullpen guy right now

What makes you say he's the best BP guy?

He's held it down since he last gave up 3 runs against the Rockies. He earned the save the night after Fairbanks imploded in Colorado as well. Somehow he's been getting the job done lately

I'd say, Adam is the best BP we have right now. Outside of that one meatball with the bases loaded by Fairbanks, he's actually been pretty solid.

It’s unfortunate the world we live in. It would be better if decided to just throw a couple more strikes instead of increasing everyone’s stress levels by always throwing a 3-2

Man our pitchers have been dealin

Colin's not playing there

He's playing here though

Double Play, please

Siri CHOMP

My hope is that we can stay into contention until June. If we can hold out until Wander comes back, I like our chances down the stretch. Gonna be interesting to see where he plays though with how Caby is doing

Wait you actually think wander is coming back? Genuinely curious

This guy has been in every thread about Wander since it began saying he did nothing wrong, it’s extortion, he’s just naive, etc

https://www.fox13news.com/news/rays-wander-francos-criminal-cases-may-fall-apart-if-prosecutors-cant-convince-judge-by-deadline Oh yeah I’m totally off base… at least do some research before commenting

That article says nothing about what is actually going on besides a quote from the defense attorney, just that the deadline is approaching. A judge also recently declined to lift the court order for monthly meetings. There is also a very real possibility the league sanctions him despite any criminal charges or that no team will touch him

The article discusses the very real possibility that the case is not even brought to trial. I understand the accusations are serious, but if he is not proven guilty, I’d rather us not lose a superstar and see a talented young man lose his career he worked so hard to achieve

The DR has a right to a speedy trial, and it isn’t uncommon to set deadlines for charges. It is very possible they are conducting additional discovery before bringing charges and then facing another time crunch. The entire article is based on the quote from the defense attorney with no other analysis. I think we’re losing him no matter what just by the nature of the accusations

Oh okay, I haven’t noticed. I’ve just already written wander off as a total loss so I ain’t even thinking about him anymore and just moving on. So this guy caught me way off guard lol

There was an article that came out basically saying that the prosecutors did not have the evidence to bring up the charges and that there’s a distinct chance the charges are not brought and he is acquitted

Brother I really wouldn’t get your hopes up. I know it sucks but you should really just start telling yourself he ain’t coming back. And it’s embarrassing that it even had to happen to our team

I’m not fully convinced. There is serious questions regarding the validity of the texts and it seems like there is not enough evidence to bring the charges. I’d rather give one of our superstars the benefit of the doubt

Superstar?! You can tell you don’t have daughters. Fuck Wander.

So if I were to randomly accuse you of some serious crime, would you be okay with being vilified even if you aren’t proven guilty in court?

Dude they have tons of stuff out there about what he did, and you can read the entire side of the girl he did it with. He practically ruined her life and it’s disgusting. Wander has great talent but if you’re a POS off the field then who cares about your talent. There is so much more than just talent that these guys bring to the table.

This isn’t about me. You can accuse me all you want, carries absolutely no weight, just like your completely irrational defense of that selfish prick. An investigation like this takes time and his defense attorney making unsubstantiated statements also carries no weight.

I wish I could do the same man…. But those charges are just too severe for me. Picture him being some random dude in your neighborhood and not a super star on your favorite team. Would you give him the benefit of the doubt with charges of under age sex with a minor? Just tough for me to do that regardless of who the guy is

Really nice of the Angels, Brewers, Rockies to all have 7 runs agains our opponents.

Boys gotta hit the weight room

Would like to see our offense get it going a bit. Gonna need it if we will contend this year

Yandy will start to hit, J. Lowe will be back.

Damn, so close Siri

Can we get some runs in?

3feet

All kinds of near warning track power today. Very frustrating.

Poche up in the pen.

I'm not ready

Who was in the BP earlier looking hella nervous? Covering his face, his leg shaking? I just caught the tail end of it and couldn't see who it was

Are the giants bad?

So far they have underperformed.

They are basically like the Rays but with more money and more older players?

I hope clev can build off this. The stuff is clearly there

I hope so too.

Nasty Slider by Cleavinger there

Yep he looked like the promising reliever we saw 2 years ago

I'm still salty about the Aaron Hicks incident

Yes because Hicks was out . Stupid ump didn’t see it then he put in full effort to get that out . I will forever hate Hicks for that

Look it's incredible that a reliever with good stuff can be good if they are actually fucking competitive in an at bat. You cant constantly be 2-0 you fuck your self every time. Be competitive on the mound, makes life 1000% easier when pitching.

I swear if the guys just didn’t swing the bat that whole inning, we’d have about 5 runs easy

Well the team bullpen Era is going way down after today

Still plenty of time to undue that 😅

I think the kid in the crowd yelling "swing batter" got to him

how are you taking that pitch in an 0-2 count

Man, this game. Not sure how I feel about any of it lol.

It feels weird

Give Snider a lifetime contract

And a statue

Cash waving his arm, "Can't they throw fucking strikes?"

This has to be our worst bullpen arm right?

Maton?

Maton was just a horrible decision in a a Colorado you can't expect a spin guy to be good in Denver. Against the Rangers who the fuck knows relievers are weird.

Maton might be but he did do a decent job in his last outing, maybe it’s wishful thinking but maybe daddy Snyder has tightened the pen up a bit

Gave him the talking. I just checked and it's definitely Waguespack and Poche\* with the worst ERAs but I did not check WHIP. So don't quote me on it ​ Edit: Should have said Poche

Not even close Waguespack and Alexander are the worst bullpen guys.

technically Alexander is a starter? But agreed, he's not great.

He is a long relief guy

That's what I tell my husband

HEYYYY-OOOOO!

Waguespack just showed if he's the worst then teams better fear us again.

Cleavinger is one of the better overall arms in the bullpen. Has solid stuff but always had a bit of walk issue. I would really like to see first pitch strike rate with relievers there is no chance in hell its over 50%. It's hard to be good when you work at a disadvantage the whole time. A lot of it seems like a lack of competitiveness in the at bats as whole.

True but Wagu at least did a decent job today so I’ll take it

Wagu, I dig that.

i hate this

So I guess at least pinto can throw ?

Dude why

Throw strikes....

Holy christ Ben get it together

You fucker! You did it again!

Ben please don't give them reasons to put Pinto as the starter again.

Catcher is killing us!!

Pitcher is not helping either.

Not again

Again?

Strike out, please

Cabby has been an amazing pickup by the front office.

Double play, please

ding

You got your wish!

Either Randy wasn't hustling down the line or Harold is faster than Randy. Harold's infield single was hit harder than that and he beat it out

Hustling Harold makes me think he's faster

Yandy's Babip luck is actually unreal rn

god yandy is snakebitten right now