Rays Blow Largest Lead In Team History
After being down 10-2 up until the eight inning, the Cleveland Indians never put away the rally caps. Scoring 2 runs in the eight and 7 runs in the bottom of the ninth, the Indians rallied to beat the Tampa Bay Rays handing the team their largest blown lead in their 11 year club history.
The worst of the embarrassment for the Rays wasn’t in losing the game after leading by eight runs, but losing the game with the score 10-5 with two outs in the bottom of the ninth was just pitiful.
The Rays have no dropped 14 games in a row at Cleveland.
Blogs weigh in the Rays Blown Lead:
Rays Index: Rays Index calls the loss “Vomit Inducing”. This is just not a good team. Good teams do not blow 10-run leads. They don’t blow 6-runs leads in the 9th innings. And they do not blow ANY leads to bad teams.
DRAYSBAY : It’s unacceptable, and frankly disgusting. This team is in serious trouble…..
The Heater: Tampa Bay, up 10-0 at one point, gives up seven runs in the ninth inning in an embarrassing collapse.
Baseball Reflections : Kazmir isn’t the only Rays pitcher struggling – Andy Sonnanstine has been even worse with his 7.36 ERA and 1.71 K/BB ratio. Most troubling for Sonnanstine is his hits allowed….
