goose Posted July 7, 2005 Author Share Posted July 7, 2005 Year 2- June 1st 48-18 6.5 Games ahead of the Red Sox Batting Order(BA/HR/RBI/SB) RF:Rocco Baldelli-.294/4/31/47(2nd in SB,9th in R,3rd in 3B) 2B:Jorge Cantu-.326/2/36 DH:Aubrey Huff-.322/12/65(2nd in RBI,5th in hits) LF:Alex Sanchez-.320/1/22/45(3rd in SB,2nd in 3B) SS:Julio Lugo -.302/2/15/28(4th in SB) 3B:Darren Gossler-.286/4/37 1B:Travis Lee-.261/1/16 CF:Carl Crawford-.249/2/18/47(Leads MLB in SB and 3B) C:Toby Hall-.271/3/27 Bench Josh Phelps-.200/0/1 Alex S. Gonzalez-.183/1/8 Charles Johnson-.152/0/0 Joey Gathright-.242/0/5/17(9th in SB) B.J Upton-.224/0/3/15(10th in SB) Rotation(W-L/ERA/K's/Saves) 1-Mark Hendrickson:9-0/1.52/54(3rd in ERA,T-1st in Wins,3rd in AVG against,Leads MLB in CG,T-2nd in SO,Leads MLB in IP) 2-Rob Bell:7-2/2.96/40 3-Cassey Fossum:6-2/3.25/43 4-Scott Kazmir:6-4/4.58/40 5-Dewon Brazelton:7-3/ 1.94/44(8th in ERA,T-3rd in Wins,6th in CG,7th in IP) Bullpen(W-L/ERA/K's/Saves) LRP:Doug Waechter:0-1/4.94/20 LRP:Hideo Nomo:3-2/3.93/14/1 MRP:Trever Miller:2-2/1.96/14/1(9th in ERA) MRP:Lance Carter:3-0/0.75/9(Leads MLB in ERA,4th in AVG against) SU:Travis Harper:3-0/1.82/12(5th in ERA) Closer:Danny Baez:1-1/2.49/15/20(T-2nd in Saves) Finances: Revenue-$24.50M Expenses-$34.70M Income-(-)$10.20M Bank-$5.19M Payroll-$64.7 Million Level 1 Seating-20000 capacity:(14373 Average) Level 1 Lighting Banks Level 1 Scoreboard Level 2 Ads and Banners Level 2 Restaurant Level 2 HR Celebration Ice Cream Pop Corn Pizza Peanut Soda The Devil Rays just keep winning and are on a season high 11 game winning streak.Awsome pitching followed by hot streaks from Hall,Baldelli, and Huff and you got an unstoppable team. The Devil Rays are also 11-1 against the NL and have identical 24-9 records on the road and at home.But they come up against a strong Cardinals team in their next series. With Julio Lugo returning yesterday during the off day and Cantu returning in 2 days this Devil Rays team will only get stronger.Gonzalez, who will fill in at 3B till Cantu returns may be traded soon to strengthen the bench. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted July 7, 2005 Author Share Posted July 7, 2005 Julio Lugo returned in a big way going 3-4 with 2 doubles, a SB, and a RBI as the Devil Rays came from behind to beat the cards 6-5 to win their major league and franchise best 12th straight game. Larry Walker also had a hell of a day going 4-4 with 3 homers although they were each solo shots.Kazmir continues to struggle giving up 4 runs in 4.2 innings. Also to reward Toby Hall for his recent hot streak, him and Carl Crawford have switched spots in the lineup, moving Hall up to the 8th spot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted July 8, 2005 Author Share Posted July 8, 2005 The Devil Rays streak finally comes to an end at 12 in a row as they lose to the Cardinals 7-3.Brazelton pitched well, giving up 2 runs in 6 IP with 4 k's but the bullpen couldnt hold it as they gave up 5 runs in the 7th and 8th innings.Devil Rays got one more back in the 9th but it wasnt enough. Also Cantu is back from his injury and retakes his spot at 3B and #2 in the order.I'm going to look into trading Gonzalez as he is hitting .186 with 1 homer and 9 rbi in 118 AB. All this while making 1.5M. I'm going to try to get either someone to strengthen the bench of some prospects. I may also look into trading Charles Johnson who only has 5 hits in 33 AB(.152, hes the backup catcher) for prospects.He's only making 100k.Tim Laker,hitting .328 in AAA will be called up to be the backup catcher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted July 9, 2005 Author Share Posted July 9, 2005 Hendrickson lost his first game of the year 3-2 against the Cardinals.I'm glad the Devil Rays wont have to face the Cards any more this season, especially the 2-3-4 hitters.Walker-Puljous-Edmonds had 8 homers.Larry Walker was 7-12 with 4 HR with 6 RBI. Also made a roster move.Optioned Charles Johnson to AAA Durham and promoted Tim Laker to be the backup catcher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted July 11, 2005 Author Share Posted July 11, 2005 The D-Rays sold out their first game of the year.It was the first game in a three game series againt their interstate rivals, The Florida Marlins.A packed house of 20000 came to see the D-Rays win 6-5 in 12 innings as Joey Gathright hit his first homer of the year. Aubrey Huff is in a really serious slump.He is 4 for his last 40 with 1 homer and just 3 RBI's.His average has dropped down to .304 after being in the top 5 all year long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted July 11, 2005 Author Share Posted July 11, 2005 Promotions: A > AA SP Jack McGee > Geraldo Garcia AA > AAA 2B Luis Ordaz > C Charles Johnson 3B Rico Washington > 3B Earl Snyder SP Dicky Gonzalez > SP Jason Roach RP Matt White > RP Cameron Smith RP Chris Seddon > RP Chris Brock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted July 12, 2005 Author Share Posted July 12, 2005 Sold out the entire 3 game series against Florida.60000 saw me lose the series 2-1. Thats 3 sold out games on the year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr.writer Posted July 13, 2005 Share Posted July 13, 2005 Hi, I'm an italian baseball fan and I've just finished to register my account. There aren't many people who loves baseball in italy, the NBA has much more success. I write about MLB on an italian web site and I'm a Devil Rays supporter. I've won the WS in MVP 2004 with the Rays in my first year at the MVP level thanks to Tim Wakefield's knuckleballs and Nomar Garciaparra's homers, now I'm going to challenge with the 2005 version, but I guess it will be harder than last year: the game seems to be more difficult! Congratulations for the site, it's really perfect! :wtg: Sorry for my english, I hope I was quite understandable... :shrug: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted July 14, 2005 Author Share Posted July 14, 2005 Year 2- July 1st 54-25 2.0 Games ahead of the Red Sox Batting Order(BA/HR/RBI/SB) RF:Rocco Baldelli-.288/4/34/56(1st in SB, 3rd in 3B) 3B:Jorge Cantu-.322/3/40 DH:Aubrey Huff-.311/14/68(3rd in RBI,8th in hits) LF:Alex Sanchez-.325/1/27/55(2nd in SB,Leads MLB in 3B) SS:Julio Lugo -.307/2/20/37(4th in SB) 2B:Darren Gossler-.301/5/50 1B:Travis Lee-.252/1/19 C:Toby Hall-.265/3/30 CF:Carl Crawford-.243/3/26/50(3rd in SB and 2nd in 3B) Bench Josh Phelps-.207/0/1 Alex S. Gonzalez-.189/1/9 Joey Gathright-.267/1/8/19(9th in SB) B.J Upton-.205/0/3/18(10th in SB) Tim Laker-.250/0/0 Rotation(W-L/ERA/K's/Saves) 1-Mark Hendrickson:10-1/1.67/67(6th in ERA,2nd in Wins,6th in AVG against,Leads MLB in CG,SO,and in IP) 2-Rob Bell:7-4/3.45/43(8th in CG) 3-Cassey Fossum:7-3/3.14/54 4-Scott Kazmir:6-5/4.98/45 5-Dewon Brazelton:8-4/ 2.46/55(9th in CG) Bullpen(W-L/ERA/K's/Saves) LRP:Doug Waechter:0-2/6.18/24 LRP:Hideo Nomo:5-2/4.65/18/1 MRP:Trever Miller:2-2/2.64/17/1(9th in ERA) MRP:Lance Carter:3-0/0.91/11(Leads MLB in ERA,7th in AVG against) SU:Travis Harper:3-0/1.48/17(2nd in ERA, 10th in AVG against) Closer:Danny Baez:2-1/2.46/18/27(T-2nd in Saves) Finances: Revenue-$30.90M Expenses-$40.00M Income-(-)$9.07M Bank-$4.07M Payroll-$64.7 Million Level 1 Seating-20000 capacity:3 sold out games(15142 Average) Level 1 Lighting Banks Level 1 Scoreboard Level 2 Ads and Banners Level 2 Restaurant Level 2 HR Celebration Ice Cream Pop Corn Pizza Peanut Soda For the third straight month, the Devil Rays won 18 games despite a league high 12 game winning streak. Aubrey Huff has only had 1 homer and 4 RBI since June 17th and his average dropped to .302.But the last couple of games he's been hitting well, his average up to .311. Darren Gossler has really turned it on the last couple of weeks raising his average from .270 to .301. Back to back series losses to the Marlins and Blue Jays have been the result of pitching.Hendrickson had a bump in the road but is still on his Cy Young course.The rest of the pitching has been struggling though. With 2 weeks till the All Star game heres an update on the voting.Alex Sanchez is 2nd in the voting for OF and Rocco Baldelli is 3rd.Huff has slipped to 5th because Ichiro has been on fire, raising his average to .352. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted July 14, 2005 Author Share Posted July 14, 2005 Bad news befell the Devil Rays today.Alex Sanchez tore his shoulder muscle while stealing second and will be out of about 6 weeks (49 days) and will be placed on the 15 day DL.Joey Gathright will take his place in left field and Jonny Gomes will be called up from AAA Durham to take his place on the roster. The Red Sox are making a surge and have gone 8-2 in their last 10 while the D-Rays have gone 4-6 in the same stretch.The Devil Rays currently hold a slim 1 game lead over Boston. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted July 15, 2005 Author Share Posted July 15, 2005 The Devil Rays suffered their first sweep of the year at the hands of the Twins.They are now 7-9 against the Central. Because of that, they are also out of first place for the first time since the end of April.The Red Sox beat the Blue Jays 4-2 to take the lead in the division, at least % wise.The Red Sox have a .662 winning % while the D-Rays have a .659 winning %. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted July 15, 2005 Author Share Posted July 15, 2005 The month of July has been brutal to the Devil Rays.First they lost Alex Sanchez for 6 weeks, then they fall out of first place and now they have lost Rocco Baldelli for 10 days. :wall: Baldelli was injured with an inflamed right elbow after breaking up a double play and so that the go ahead run could score against the White Sox. The good news is that they beat the White Sox 4-2, breaking a 4 game losing streak.The bad news is that the Red Sox also won, so the Devil Rays are still 1 game back. So Baldelli will be missing the All Star Game along with Sanchez. And with Huff's slump coupled with Ichiro's and Guerrero's surge, Huff has been knocked out of the top 5.So it seems the Devil Rays won't have any position players in the All Star Game. :cry: Jonny Gomes will take over in right field for the time being. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted July 16, 2005 Author Share Posted July 16, 2005 This month gets worse and worse with every game. In the first game against the Tigers Casey Fossum pitching 7.1 innings of shutout ball with Harper getting the final out in the 8th. Baez comes in to get the save with the D-Rays leading 3-0. His inning goes like this: double strike out two run homer fly out solo homer strike out. For his 3rd blown save of the year.Waechter then proceeds to give up a two run bomb in the 10th and Perciaval closes it out. :wall: All this in front of the 4th sellout crowd of the year. The D-Rays are now 1-6 in July,have lost 4 series in a row and 3 games back of the Red Sox who have won 6 games in a row. :wall: Weachters era after the game went up to 6.16 so I had enough. I sent him down to AAA and relucently brought up Jesus Colome. I didn't want to bring him up but he forced my hand with his numbers in long relief (6-1, 1.95 era, 39 k's in 41 IP) And at the reccomendations of my coaches, I have promoted Delmon Young to AAA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted July 16, 2005 Author Share Posted July 16, 2005 The fifth sell out crowd of the year saw me get my second win of the month with a 5-2 victory over Detroit.Unfortunatly the Red Sox won their 7th straight game so I did not gain any ground on them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted July 17, 2005 Author Share Posted July 17, 2005 Year 2- All Star Break 57-32 3.0 Games back of the Red Sox Batting Order(BA/HR/RBI/SB) RF:Rocco Baldelli-.281/4/35/59(1st in SB, 2nd in 3B)(10 day DL) 3B:Jorge Cantu-.314/4/37 DH:Aubrey Huff-.302/15/72(3rd in RBI) LF:Alex Sanchez-.326/1/27/57(3rd in SB,1st in 3B) SS:Julio Lugo -.294/2/27/47(4th in SB)(49 day DL) 2B:Darren Gossler-.299/5/56 1B:Travis Lee-.256/1/22 C:Toby Hall-.246/3/31 CF:Carl Crawford-.251/4/30/58(2nd in SB and 3rd in 3B) Bench Josh Phelps-.207/0/1 Alex S. Gonzalez-.189/1/9 Joey Gathright-.257/1/10/26(7th in SB) B.J Upton-.205/0/3/19(10th in SB) Tim Laker-.250/0/0 Rotation(W-L/ERA/K's/Saves) 1-Mark Hendrickson:11-1/1.64/73(2nd in ERA,2nd in Wins,8th in AVG against,1st in CG,SHO,and in IP) 2-Rob Bell:7-5/3.85/49(10th in CG) 3-Cassey Fossum:7-3/3.10/58 4-Scott Kazmir:7-5/4.90/51 5-Dewon Brazelton:8-5/ 2.77/57(9th in CG) Bullpen(W-L/ERA/K's/Saves) LRP:Hideo Nomo:5-3/4.07/23/1 LRP:Jesus Colome:1-1/5.06/2 MRP:Trever Miller:3-2/2.36/23/1(7th in ERA) MRP:Lance Carter:3-1/1.05/13(1st in ERA,3rd in AVG against) SU:Travis Harper:3-2/2.65/19 Closer:Danny Baez:2-1/3.03/19/25(T-1st in Saves) Finances: Revenue-$34.60M Expenses-$44.10M Income-(-)$9.55M Bank-$4.55M Payroll-$64.7 Million Level 1 Seating-20000 capacity:5 sold out games(15523 Average) Level 1 Lighting Banks Level 1 Scoreboard Level 2 Ads and Banners Level 2 Restaurant Level 2 HR Celebration Ice Cream Pop Corn Pizza Peanut Soda The first half ended on a sour note for the Devil Rays.There are easily having their worst month of the year being 3-7 in July. Colome so far isn't making me happy, since peing called up he has pitched 2.1 innings and given up 2 homers and struck out 1. Aubrey Huff ended up being voted onto the all star team as a backup.Also Hendrickson and Baez made it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted July 18, 2005 Author Share Posted July 18, 2005 League Leaders Leaders: Avg:Kevin Millar (Bos).367 Home Run:Mark Teixeira(Tex)/Manny Ramirez(Bos)27 RBI:Manny Rameriz(Bos)87 Stolen Base:Rocco Baldelli(TB)59 Runs:Brad Wilkerson(Was)76 Hits:Ichiro(Sea)123 Doubles:Terrence Long (KC)/Vernon Wells(Tor)/Sean Burroughs(SD)27 Triples:Carl Crawford(TB)13 Walks:Adam Dunn(Cin)68 OBP:Ichiro(Sea).450 Total Bases:Mark Teixeira(Tex)/Brad Wilkerson(Was)208 SLG:Jim Edmonds(Stl).672 ERA:Lance Carter(TB) 1.05 Wins:Roy Oswalt(Hou)12 Saves:Keith Foulke(Bos)/Danny Baez(Tb)25 Avg against:Randy Wolfe(Phi).183 K's:John Smoltz(Atl)118 Walks:Travis Harper(TB)0 Complete Games:Mark Hendrickson(Tb)7 Shut Outs:Mark Hendrickson(Tb)/Al Leiter(Fla)3 Innings Pitched:Mark Hendrickson(Tb)142.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted July 18, 2005 Author Share Posted July 18, 2005 Home Run Derby Same rules as last year.I took the top 8 home run hitters from each league. I put them against each other (CPU vs CPU) and they go at it in the home run showdown with 10000 feet. Now instead of farthest the winner is who hits the most homeruns.In the event of a tie the winner is the one who hit the farthest home run Here is how it is played. Round 1- All particiapants go and the top 4 from each league will advance-10000 ft Round 2-All Particapants go again and the top 4 overall advance-10000 ft Semi-Finals-The particiapant with the most and least homers go at it head to head, as well as the middle two.Winners advance to the finals- 75000 ft Finals.The person with the most homers wins!!!-1 mile Scott Rolen is the defending champion Round 1(Season HRs shown in "()") American League Tex-Mark Teixeria(27)11-440ft Bos-Manny Rameriz(27)13-448ft Ana-Vladimier Guerrero(25)14-445ft Tex-Hank Blalock(20)12-453ft Bos-David Ortiz(20)11-423ft Chi-Aaron Rowand(19)10-460ft NYY-Derek Jeter(19)14-453ft Bal-Javy Lopez(19)11-449ft National League Stl-Jim Edmods(23)10-455ft Was-Brad Wilkerson(22)8-438ft NYM-Carlos Beltran(22)12-463ft Ari-Troy Glaus(21)9-452ft Cin-Adam Dunn(19)12-431ft Phi-Jim Thome(19)9-452ft Stl-Scott Rolen:(17)8-445ft Stl-John Mabry(17)12-439ft Round 2 Vlad Geuerrero 14-454ft Derek Jeter 11-442ft Manny Rameriz 11-434ft Hank Blalock 13-450ft Carlos Beltran 11-461ft Adam Dunn 12-437ft John Mabry 8-459ft Jim Edmonds 13-429ft Semi Finals Vlad Guerrero 12-433ft vs Adam Dunn 7-428ft Hank Blalock 9-439ft vs Jim Edmonds 7-437ft Finals Vlad Guerrero 5-445 vs Hank Blalock 4-438 Home Run Derby Champion Vladimeir Guerrero Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted July 18, 2005 Author Share Posted July 18, 2005 2005 All Star Game Three Devil Rays made the All Star Team.Aubrey Huff is the backup outfielder and Mark Hendrickson and Danny Baex are pitching. American League Lineup C-I.Rodriguez:.336 19 HR 54 RBI CF-J.Damon:.311 11 HR 44 RBI 19 SB RF-V.Guerrero-.315/25/66 SS-M.Young:.344/18/56 LF-M.Rameriz:.300/27/87 3B-E.Chavez:.301/18/64 DH-D.Ortiz:.333/20/56 1B-M.Teixeria:.290/27/78 2B-A.Soriano:.260/14/48 Bench C-J.Mauer:.317/10/42 3B-A.Rod:.278/10/58 RF-Ichiro:.354/5/31/37 SS-E.Renteria:.329/8/57 1B-A.Huff:.302/15/72 2B-T.Iguchi:.299/12/55/19 Rotation J.Santana:10-6/3.37/111 k C.Schilling:11-3/2.99/100 B.Radke:7-3/2.89/82 B.Zito:9-4/3.18/64 M.Hendrickson:11-1/1.64/73 Bullpen LRP-D.Baez:2-1/3.03/19/25 saves MRP-O.Dotel:2-2/2.62/14/23 SU-B.Ryan:1-1/1.55/19/24 Closer:K.Foulke:2-0/0.95/25/25 National League Starting Lineup RF-B.Abreu:.303/14/48/30 3B-S.Rolen:.311/17/54 DH-J.Edmonds:.336/23/59 1B-J.Thome:.327/19/52 CF-C.Beltran:.308/22/46/17 2B-R.Durham:.316/11/34 LF-P.Burell:.320/14/67 SS-N.Garciappara:.280/15/46 C-B.Ausmus:.313/9/56 Bench C-M.Piazza:.269/9/41 CF-B.Wilkerson:.330/22/60 RF-B.Giles:.287/10/46 1B-N.Johnson:.331/13/60 2B-J.Kent:.242/16/59 SS-C.Izturiz:.336/9/37 Rotation J.Schmidt:10-3/2.39/108 J.Peavy:11-5/2.76/102 R.Oswalt:12-4/2.69/91 M.Prior:11-2/2.77/79 A.Burnett:8-5/2.23/97 Bullpen LRP-T.Ohka:1-2/3.45/24/23 MRP-G.Mota:0-3/3.42/16/22 SU-J.Isringhaus:0-1/3.60/18/24 Closer-E.Gagne:0-1/2.33/14/21 Mark Hendrickson will get the start for the AL and Jason Schmidt will get the start for the NL. Edit to add: The AL won the game 10-3 thanks to some awsome performances by Manny Rameriz (4-5 with 3 rbis, HR) and Vlad Guerrero(3-4 2 RBI, 3 SB) Curt Schilling recieved the Win and Jason Schmidt recieved the loss. D-Rays: Hendrickson:2.2 IP 1 H 0 er Baez:0.2 IP 1 H 1 HR Huff:1-1 2B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted July 19, 2005 Author Share Posted July 19, 2005 Made the first trade of the season, albeit a minor one. Kanas City initiated this trade, and after reviewing it I gladly accepted. KC trades Pual Phillips © from their AA team to TB for Gabriel Martiez (3B) from their AA team. It's a very one sided trade IMO as Phillips is hitting .332 with 6 homers and 32 RBI while Martiez is just a bench player.But the computer started it, so I guess KC needs 3rd basemen. Plus it will help me out in the future because catchers are something my farm system is weak in. Still looking to trade Gonzalez.I have tried several deals, but so far none have been accepted. and just out of curiousity, I tried to the Victor Martinez for Scott Kazmir trade again to see if it would work.It did, but I didn't save.I don't have anybody right now that can fill Kazmir's spot in the rotation or I would. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted July 19, 2005 Author Share Posted July 19, 2005 Beat the Blue Jays in the first game of the second half 3-2.The game was the longest of the year at 16 innngs after Baez blew his fourth save in the 9th when leading 2-1. Also the rotation has been changed around a bit to reflect performance. 1.Hendrickson 2.Brazelton 3.Fossum 4.Bell 5.Kazmir and the wildcard standings have been released. Despite being 3.5 back of the Sox in the division, the Devil Rays have a commanding 13 game lead over the Orioles in the Wildcard race. :wtg: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted July 20, 2005 Author Share Posted July 20, 2005 It looks like the D-Rays might be turning this month around after a 5-0 shutout of the Blue Jays. Rocco Baldelli returned to the lineup and the leadoff spot and went 1-3 with a 2B and an RBI.But the big news was the dominant CG shutout by Cassey Fossum.He scattered 6 hits and struck out 6. This was the type of performance the D-Rays needed after watching their starters do horrible all month long(excluding a few good starts by Hendrickson). It is the first series win since the middle of June for the D-Rays and the 4th game in a row they have won.They are now 2 back of the Red Sox. In other news the Pirates, who are 31-60 and 20.5 games back of the Cubs have lost <b>15</b> in a row!! Thats FIFTEEN!! Wow. :eek: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted July 21, 2005 Author Share Posted July 21, 2005 The Pirates snapped their losing streak at 16 games. Now onto the D-Rays who had a very very busy day. First, they swept the Blue Jays in 4 games to not only give them their first sweep since mid June, but it put them 1 game out of the Sox. So before the game the Devil Rays made a trade to strengthen their pitching staff. Their second trade of the season: 1B Josh Phelps to San Diego for SP Tim Stuaffer. Stauffer (8-2 3.69 era 35 k in 61.1 IP) will be inserted into the bullpen as a long relief man.Also he is only 21 years old, so he should improve. The Devil Rays went into the Red Sox series facing their old Nemesis David Wells.But they rocked him for 6 runs in 4 innings.Stauffer made his Devil Ray debut by pitching 3 innings, and giving up 2 runs (1 earned).The Devils held on to win 7-5. So they move into a tie for first with Boston alothugh they do hold a slim lead percentage wise (.663-.660)The Devil Rays have now won 6 in a row and are now 8-7 in July. As a result of the first trade of the day, the Devil Rays made one more.Except this one was initiated by the LA Dodgers. So for the second trade of the day and third of the year. Rp Jesus Colome to LAD for 1B Hee-Seop Choi Choi (.319 7 HR 27 RBI) will be inserted as the Devil Rays 1st basemen. But for the rest of the Boston series, he will be the DH and bat third as Aubrey Huff is struggling mightily and needs a rest. So the Devil Rays sure up their bullpen and add a little firepower to their lineup.And with Travis Lee moving to the bench, it increases their bench and gives them a good defenseive replacement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted July 21, 2005 Author Share Posted July 21, 2005 The second game against the Red Sox was the most exciting game I have played all year. Rob Bell was on the mound opposing Matt Clement in the fight for first place. Bell started off good going three innings without giving up a run until Damon hit a homer to put the Red Sox on the board. 3 more innings, 2 doubles and a sac fly later and it was 0-3. Clement did a good job of shutting the Devil Rays down.Only 1 runner got to second base through 6 and every time one did get on, Clement got the next guy to GIDP. But in the 7th inning Hee-Seop Choi, having gone 0-2, hit his first homer as a Devil Ray to put them on the board 1-3.Clement walked both Gathright and Lugo after that.Gossler came up with 2 outs and chance to put the D-Rays ahead.He yanked the first curveball he seen into right field and it looked like it was going to go, but Trot Nixon made a hell of a play to rob him of a homer and to end the inning and Clements day. John Halama came into the 8th for the Red Sox.He threw a fastball inside to Lee and then a changeup down the middle, that Lee slammed into the centerfield seats for his second homer of the year.2-3 Red Sox. In the bottom of the 8th with Miller warming up in the pen, Bell got Damon and Renteria to strike out as Manny came up.I didnt want a lefty to face Manny, and with not enough time to warmup a right hander, I stuck with Bell. After getting to a 2-2 count, Bell throw a curveball away, that Manny hit over the Monster to make it 2-4.That ended Bell's day and Miller came in and got Ortiz to ground out. So Foulke came into the 9th with a 0.95 era and 27 saves.He got the first batter, Baldelli to fly out.Cantu then got a basehit up the middle.Hee Seop Choi them came up with a chance to be a hero, but he struck out.With 2 outs and a runner on, Foulke walked Gathright and Lugo to load the bases.Gossler then came in and singled the other way to drive Gathright in to make it 3-4.With the bases still loaded and 2 outs, Lee came up.I thought about pinch hitting with Huff but since he is struggling I decided to stay with Lee.After getting it to a 2-2 count, Foulke got Lee to fly out to Manny to end the most exciting game of the year. So the Sox maintain 1st place in the Al East. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted July 22, 2005 Author Share Posted July 22, 2005 Well the Devil Rays won the last game of the series 6-4 to take 2 out of three from the Red Sox, that and coupled with the Red Sox loss on the off day, puts the D-Rays back in first place(by a half game). Travis Lee had a good series going 5-10 with 3 RBI to raise his BA to .277.But he still loses his job to Hee Seop Choi. Tim Laker had a spectacular series though, he went 7-9 with 5 RBI's and has taken over the Catcher's job with Hall doing poorly (.247)Laker is now hitting .400(10-25) since being called up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted July 25, 2005 Author Share Posted July 25, 2005 Year 2- August 1st 72-34 3.0 Gamesup on the the Red Sox Batting Order(BA/HR/RBI/SB) RF:Rocco Baldelli-.302/4/48/77(1st in SB, 3rd in 3B) 3B:Jorge Cantu-.294/5/54 DH:Aubrey Huff-.307/17/79(6th in RBI) 1B:Hee-Seop Choi-.318/8/34 LF:Alex Sanchez-.326/1/27/57(4th in SB,2nd in 3B)(49 day DL) SS:Julio Lugo -.288/2/25/59(4th in SB) 2B:Darren Gossler-.303/8/67 C:Tim Laker-.269/0/8 CF:Carl Crawford-.251/4/34/65(2nd in SB and 3rd in 3B) Bench Toby Hall-.251/3/34 Alex S. Gonzalez-.181/1/9 Travis Lee-.270/2/25 Joey Gathright-.271/1/16/41(5th in SB,8th in 3B) B.J Upton-.205/0/3/19(10th in SB) Johnny Gomes-.250/1/6 Rotation(W-L/ERA/K's/Saves) 1-Mark Hendrickson:12-1/1.52/85(2nd in ERA,9th in Wins,7th in AVG against,1st in CG,SHO,and in IP) 2-Dewon Brazelton:10-5/ 2.77/66 3-Cassey Fossum:9-3/2.77/72 4-Rob Bell:9-7/3.63/66(7th in IP) 5-Scott Kazmir:9-5/4.74/62 Bullpen(W-L/ERA/K's/Saves) LRP:Hideo Nomo:6-3/3.65/27/1 LRP:Tim Stauffer:11-2/3.50/43 MRP:Trever Miller:3-2/2.70/28/1 MRP:Travis Harper:3-2/2.25/23 SU:Lance Carter:4-1/0.83/21/2(1st in ERA,2nd in AVG against) Closer:Danny Baez:2-1/3.03/26/32(1st in Saves) Finances: Revenue-$43.80M Expenses-$52.10M Income-(-)$8.29M Bank-$3.29M Payroll-$64.5 Million Level 1 Seating-20000 capacity:7 sold out games(15746 Average) Level 1 Lighting Banks Level 1 Scoreboard Level 2 Ads and Banners Level 2 Restaurant Level 2 HR Celebration Ice Cream Pop Corn Pizza Peanut Soda It looked like the D-Rays were going to have a horrible month of July until the All Star break.Before the break they were 3-7 in the month.After they break they were practicly unbeatable, going 15-2 in their last 17 games. And once again, they won 18 games in a month. Wins by Month: April:18-6 May:18-11 June:18-8 July:18-9 They are on pace to win 105 games. The Devil Rays made a few trades.First acquiring Tim Stauffer to sure up the bullpen, and then aquiring Hee-Seop Choi to strengthen the lineup and add to the bench(with Lee going there). But there were some other major trades that happened: Fla traded C Paul Lo Duca to Ari for 2B Craig Counsell Chc traded 2B Todd Walker to Phi for 2B Chase Utley Tex traded RF Richard Hildalgo and C Sandy Alomar to CLe for RP Kazuhit Tadano and 3B Aaron Boone Stl traded SS David Eckstein and 2B Hector Luna to Fla for LF Jeff Conine and 2B Wilson Delgado Sea traded C Miguel Olivio to NYM for SP Phillip Hunter Also made a roster move at the reccomendation of my coaches. I promoted Catcher Paul Phillips to AAA and demoted Catcher Pete Laforest to AA. Also Hee-Seop Choi has asked for an extension on his contract. I am going to wait and see how he does in August before granting it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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