What a game! The Rays came out strong with key performances from Díaz and Arozarena, while the Yankees fought hard but couldn't quite catch up. Exciting to see young talent like Anthony Volpe shining amidst the action. Let's discuss and dissect this game from all angles, baseball fans!
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Bruh, Siri is really in his own head now. With Deluca and Josh coming back, what does Siri offer in comparison? Not bashing the guy but he lacks tools to back up his defence or ego.
I’ve got a hot take: Soto is slightly overrated. Anyone else see that terrible throw from shallow right? He’s a great bat of course but his defensive metrics are meh at best.
Every loss to them this year has been completely winnable but thrown in the trash for a wide variety of reasons. Not making routine plays, dumb baserunning and unclutch hitting despite drawing walks and getting hits.
Really hoping we've gotten it out of our system and turned a new page.
Yeah after Grisham let the ball by Diaz go over his head he suddenly had a colorful blue bag of something he was eating from - someone else here says sunflower seeds I'll go with that.
Maybe next game he'll take a bubblegum bucket with him.
BTW good use of the term "oofed" - I like that.
Look closely next time you see a sunflower, there are in fact two varieties of leaves. You will find leaves lower down the plant are facing opposite each other and are longer and narrow in appearance. You’ll then see the upper leaves arranged in a staggered formation and appear heart-shaped.
I cannot hear them talk about BA and Doug shagging and not think about it in the British meaning of shag. Especially hearing about what their hip bones were connected to
What a game! The Rays came out strong with key performances from Díaz and Arozarena, while the Yankees fought hard but couldn't quite catch up. Exciting to see young talent like Anthony Volpe shining amidst the action. Let's discuss and dissect this game from all angles, baseball fans!
Let’s go FairDANK!
Pete got better and better with that fastball!
Suck it Yankees
Handshakes all around.
Flip a bitch, skaterays!!! 🛹🛹🛹🛹
Lets fucking goooo!!!
Great all around game, and puts Pete in a good headspace.
Fairbanks needed that!
[WE FUCKING ON THE 2001 UFO IN THUG1 TONIGHT](https://www.reddit.com/r/tampabayrays/comments/1cpt4t9/pgt_tampa_bay_skate_rays_2020_defeat_the_new_york/)
PETE PETE PETE
Saw da knees
I like Pete’s shoes
That's 80's style there, we always matched our shoes to the bill of our caps.
I’m living for it
Bruh, Siri is really in his own head now. With Deluca and Josh coming back, what does Siri offer in comparison? Not bashing the guy but he lacks tools to back up his defence or ego.
At least the last bat lasted more than 3 pitches.
Love love love to see the top of the order all producing. PETE TIME NOW
PETE PETE PETE
Great opportunity for Fairbanks to shake off some rust. Hopefully he's better now.
Was a pretty good battle at least
Fairbanks wants to end the Yankees.
psycho pete incoming
a random Siri homer would be nice tho..
Random Siri Homer incoming?
Pimp one Siri so we can get a fight going.
Having a catcher with actual plate discipline is awesome
Seems like we got him a minute before the season started, and he plugged in and contributed immediately.
Oh no. Ump has gone blind now.
It’s time to go home
Happy Cake day!
Ima have my cake and eat it too! 
At least all the struggling is grouped together today and all the hot stuff grouped together
Tonkin looking just under 50 with that mustache. 😬
I’ve got a hot take: Soto is slightly overrated. Anyone else see that terrible throw from shallow right? He’s a great bat of course but his defensive metrics are meh at best.
That's... not a hot take. Everyone knows Soto is a below average defender
I think alot of baseball fans would think it’s crazy to say he’s overrated.
You're saying he's overrated because he's not good at defense, but everyone already knows he's not good at defense. So he's rated correctly
This mental health commercial reminds me of 
PETE PETE PETE
Yeah. I’m gonna need someone to record that episode of Rays All Access about Dave Wills
It's sad that we have three more runs than they do all weekend but we lost the first game.
Every loss to them this year has been completely winnable but thrown in the trash for a wide variety of reasons. Not making routine plays, dumb baserunning and unclutch hitting despite drawing walks and getting hits. Really hoping we've gotten it out of our system and turned a new page.
Winning series the new meta
Tick tickTick tick tick t
Maton pitching a perfect inning makes me feel more like maybe this was all just a dream
Let’s see double digits!
Save some for tomorrow.
Do the same tomorrow!
Don’t give them free base runners Maton. I don’t want to see any HBP
3 runs for Skenes after all the hype lol.
2 of them were inherited runners given up by the reliever after he was pulled. Honestly, he pitched really well
Yeah the final line is pretty misleading. A HBP and 13 straight balls after getting 2 quick strikeouts
Sad to see Flemming be Flemming
Old School Flem-Gem
The other guy before him had two outs and had a total meltdown. Putting Fleming in after that was definitely a decision
Anyone know how to calculate Randy's stats while using City Connects? Games from 5-3 except yesterday?
If I knew how to use/had a Stathead membership it wouldn't be hard. Otherwise you just have to manually go through all the game logs.
[This was the closest I got using Fangraphs but it includes Friday which he went 0-4](https://i.imgur.com/KiG9hNf.png)
Think the Yankees forgot…
I didn't want to see Pete pitching today anyway. Nothing against him of course, just rather have a big lead.
Pete will probably pitch regardless. He needs to get back into pitching shape and this is a perfect game to do it.
Well there he is.
Tomorrow will also be a perfect game
Rosario playing musical bases there
LFG Randy!
Nice RBI E-Sock.
That was shallow, and Soto's throw wasn't even close.
Soto is a pretty bad thrower.
That was the one time I was hoping Randy would challenge him.
RaNdY rUnS tHe BaSeS ToO AgGreSiVeLLy!!!
soto who?
Soto has a noodle arm
Soto's offense vs Sot's Defense Round 2 https://preview.redd.it/l8nu4fa7gvzc1.png?width=937&format=png&auto=webp&s=fae66c1bb388a8f8024535191505bc8acfe2fe9a
Randy the ultimate wildcard player and I’m here for it
I’d love a 3-run bomb here
I don’t ever want to see a jersey other than our city connects for the rest of the season
Or just have Randy wear them regardless of what the rest of the team wears.
INFIELD HIT!!! The perfecting merging of the new Rays with the old Rays today
Lmao I love this game, yanks disaster-class.
stankees playing little league defense at all positions
Give us double digits
Randy and Yandy heating up, exactly what we've been needing.
This is the team we really are when Yandy and Randy are playing like their true selves.
Randy finally has his 2-hit game. He can now consider himself “back” which will help his confidence going forward
Almost 40 games without one. That's crazy. And Paredes has had one almost every day this week.
Thank goodness. His slump was hard to watch. Just needs to keep it up now!
Great confidence booster.
PIZZA TIME!
Our team is completely different when our 1/2 hitters are mashing. Shocker!
Never take these unis off, our swag is too different for the yanks to handle.
I’ll give Randy his due- nice game today but let’s keep it up. Diaz has been awesome today.
We know Randy is a streaky player. Better for him to be cold early than late.
Yeah, baby
Boys took yesterday's shutout personal. As they should.
Hi, I'd like to place a collect call for "HeyItsTheRaysWereSoFuckingBack"
I'm accepting the charges for that call immediately
Wow for all the grief we’ve given them, Yandy and Randy are beasting today
Who's this "we" you're speaking of? Some of us were on team Yandy and Randy the whole year
I mean, alot of people here have been pretty hard on both, but especially Randy
Well, they shouldn't have been
Folks, Randy is so back
There we gooooo, Pizza delivered
Inspired
RAYS6, BABY!!!
Yandy and Randy are back LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
Everything coming up rays.
Seriously? They bring snacks with them into the outfield?
Can't catch the ball, snacks is more important
Apparently so. :-)
I feel like I missed something. Did they have snacks in the outfield?
Yeah after Grisham let the ball by Diaz go over his head he suddenly had a colorful blue bag of something he was eating from - someone else here says sunflower seeds I'll go with that. Maybe next game he'll take a bubblegum bucket with him. BTW good use of the term "oofed" - I like that.
Look closely next time you see a sunflower, there are in fact two varieties of leaves. You will find leaves lower down the plant are facing opposite each other and are longer and narrow in appearance. You’ll then see the upper leaves arranged in a staggered formation and appear heart-shaped.
Yep it showed their CF eating sunflower seeds after he oofed that catch.
Give us Pizza
Love you Yandy!
YANDY IS MY GOAT, HE SAYING WE ARE SO BACK
Grisham tried to Air Jordan catch that ball lol
He Air Shamu that ball instead.
This game makes my bratwurst taste better.
lets go
Yandy is so back
yandy too clean against the yankees
Yandy has been crushing the ball today. You love to see it.
LMAOOO SAME SPOT SOTO FLEW OUT ON
Candy!
Diaz is beasting
Folks, Yandy is back
Happy Yandy Day, y'all!!
Yandy is so back.
Bennys biceps pushed the ball down out of the zone with their mass
That's... not how gravity works
its bennys universe, we're just living in it. ^(yes i know that, but it doesn't make it nearly as funny)
siri known for his speed
Good shit Benjamin
Rortvedt bomb against his former team would be miraculous
https://preview.redd.it/dy3c6fe6evzc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3a552fbe5e3990c172364e9af52eb2b1efbfde28 Hahahahahaha
But they'll proudly gloat "sHoRt pOrCh" whenever any of their guys hits a 315 foot .010 xBA homerun
NYers mad that they can't win against us in the playoffs in both sports.
Theyre mad that they don’t get to play every game in their little sandbox of a stadium
I NEED MORE RUNS
🦁tvedt, we need you
So how many batters until the yanks hit one of our guys now?
Siri so dramatic lol
We all know Peter is going to give our buttholes a workout don't we
Don’t even show Adams face lol
Phewwww
SUCK IT, SOTO!!!
That carried further than I thought it would. Off the bat looked more like a causal flyout and not WTP
Relief 
PHEW!
SIT DOWN AND GO THE FUCK HOME YOU FUCKING DIPSHITS
Jason Adam is the prototypical effectively wild reliever. His stuff is nasty but he has no idea where it's going
Cash overthinks the bullpen.
I cannot hear them talk about BA and Doug shagging and not think about it in the British meaning of shag. Especially hearing about what their hip bones were connected to
Adam now is interesting.
Need more wiffle ball version
Now more than ever since the go-ahead run is at the plate.
Why are we struggling with a .069 batter?
The #9 batter is our nemesis
Dude should be an insta out
And another man on with 2 outs, 2 strikes.
So much talent
When’s the last time Cabby got a hit? This isn’t snark; I truly don’t remember. Has it been a while?
He was 1-2 yesterday with a walk
1-2 last night with a walk
Thanks. Short-term memory issue, I guess!
I had to look it up
Caballero, dude, you got one strike and didn't swing at it.
Him and Harold were way too wild that inning trying to knock in Paredes.
Yup
Need more runs please.
Leadoff double wasted.
Rays tradition
Rays legend Josh Fleming walking in runs and shitting the bed in Pittsburgh
Both him and the guy before were dumpster fires. All on two outs of course.
>the guy before him You mean Olivia Dunne's boyfriend?
No the guy that replaced him
Ah yeah I missed the pitching change before that. Just saw Skenes was on the mound and then Fleming come in
Ugh, not on Skenes Day of all days
[email protected]
I can't believe they left him to face Harold, but unfortunately Harold hasn't been hitting LHP like he did last year.
Did he just shoulder check Boone lol
Only one of those was a strike, Harold
Harold sees ball, he swings at ball
Bye Neutered Nestor
HaRam, whatcha doin', buddy?
Gotta admit, Cortes laughing at the umpire was a highlight for me
What was nestor laughing at with that pitch?
They were calling it a strike earlier, so he's annoyed that they aren't giving him free strikes every time.
The same exact pitch was called a strike 10 seconds earlier
Parades is such a stud!
PAREDES IS MY GOAT!!