Thu, 12/09/2010 - 11:09 by Prince damin
Lake Buena Vista, Fla. -- The Tampa Bay Rays have traded shortstop Jason Bartlett to San Diego for a pair of relief pitchers, the infielder confirmed Wednesday.
The deal was made during baseball's annual winter meetings in Florida.
Bartlett said in a text message to the St. Petersburg Times that he was excited about the trade, in which relievers Cesar Ramos and Adam Russell have been dealt by the Padres.
"I knew it was eventually coming," Bartlett wrote. "I prepared myself with my family. We are very happy and excited to start a new chapter of my career."
After a sterling 2009 season in which he hit .320 with 14 home runs and 66 RBI, Bartlett struggled last season. His production fell off to .254 with four home runs and 47 RBI.
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Sun, 10/17/2010 - 17:02 by Prince damin
St. Petersburg, Fla. -- Three homeless people plotted to cheat fans parking at a playoff game between the Tampa Bay Rays and Texas Rangers, St. Petersburg, Fla., police said.
Anthony Pawle, 54, Garry Townsend, 47, and Abigail Hill, 26, allegedly took over a vacant garage near Tropicana Field Tuesday and posted signs advertising parking spaces for $20, police told the St. Petersburg Times.
Officers discovered the scheme quickly and it appeared no one parked at the garage. The three, listed as transients in jail records, were arrested on trespassing charges.
"The property owner had no idea, nor was permission given to park vehicles upon this property," arrest affidavits stated.
Copyright 2010 United Press International, Inc. (UPI).
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Fri, 07/02/2010 - 10:56 by Rakhi
Minneapolis -- Willy Aybar's RBI single in the top of the 10th inning Thursday handed the Tampa Bay Rays a 5-4 win over Minnesota.
Aybar drove in pinch-hitter Reid Brignac, who led off the inning with a single and then moved to second when Kelly Shoppach was hit by a pitch from Matt Guerrier (1-3).
Tampa Bay's Evan Longoria tied the game 4-4 in the ninth with an RBI double that scored Carl Crawford, who had four hits in the game.
Lance Cormier (3-1) pitched the ninth and picked up the win. Rafael Soriano came on for the 10th and notched his 19th save.
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Thu, 10/01/2009 - 09:52 by shalini.bahadur
St. Petersburg, Fla., Sept. 30: Ben Zobrist hit a three-run homer Wednesday that helped the Tampa Bay Rays to a 5-3 win over Baltimore, the Orioles' 13th straight loss and 98th of the season.
Tampa Bay clinched the second winning season in its 12-year history. The first winning campaign (97-65) came last year en route to an American League pennant.
Zobrist hit his 26th homer of the season to give Tampa Bay a 4-0 lead in the third. Carl Crawford added a solo shot in the fifth.
James Shields (11-12) took a shutout into the eighth inning, but gave up three runs in that frame. His eight strikeouts equaled a season high.
Russ Springer retired two batters in the ninth to collect his first save in eight years.
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Wed, 09/30/2009 - 09:59 by shalini.bahadur
St. Petersburg, Fla., Sept. 29 : Willy Aybar went 3-for-4 with an RBI Tuesday to lead the Tampa Bay Rays to a 3-1 win over the Baltimore Orioles, who have lost 12 straight.
Ben Zobrist drove in a run and scored once and B.J. Upton had an RBI for the Rays, who have won eight of their last 11 games.
Wade Davis (2-1) gave up one run on seven hits and three walks for the win. Over five starts in September, Davis has allowed just 27 hits and 12 earned runs in 31 1/3 innings, with 31 strikeouts.
Luke Scott drove in the lone run for the Orioles. Baltimore fell a season-worst 37 games under .500 (60-97) and is three defeats away from its first 100-loss since going 54-107 in 1988.
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Fri, 09/04/2009 - 11:44 by preet_20
St. Petersbutg, Fla. Sept. 3: Jason Bay's two hits and two RBI Thursday led the Boston Red Sox to a 6-3 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays.
Both RBI came on his two-out, first-inning double.
Later, Kevin Youkilis had three hits and one RBI and Victor Martinez had two hits and one RBI. Rocco Baldelli and Mike Lowell each batted in a run.
Winner Clay Buchholz (4-3) gave up three runs and six hits in six innings for the Red Sox, who won two of the three games in the series.
Closer Jonathan Papelbon earned his 34th save, striking out two of the three batters he faced in the bottom of the ninth.
Tampa Bay's Evan Longoria had two of Tampa Bay's six hits and one RBI.
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Sat, 08/01/2009 - 10:41 by preet_20
St. Petersburg, Fla. July 31: A three-run homer by Carlos Pena in the first inning Friday ignited the Tampa Bay Rays to an 8-2 whipping of Kansas City.
The Royals, owners of the worst record in the American League and the second-worst mark in the majors, lost their third straight.
Pena's 26th homer of the season came after Sidney Ponson had given up singles to B.J. Upton and Carl Crawford. Ponson (1-7) allowed seven runs on eight hits in 4 1/3 innings.
Tampa Bay took a 4-1 lead into the fifth and broke the game open in that inning with three runs.
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Sun, 07/19/2009 - 11:28 by surajdogra
Kansas City, Mo. July 18: Willy Aybar went 4-for-4 and drove in the winning run Saturday to pace the Tampa Bay Rays to a 4-2 victory over the Kansas City Royals.
B.J. Upton had three hits and an RBI and Ben Zobrist added two hits and a run for the Rays, who have won five of their last seven games.
Tampa Bay starter Scott Kazmir gave up one run on four hits with four walks over six innings before leaving with arm trouble. Chad Bradford (1-0) earned the win for retiring the final batter of the seventh.
David DeJesus and Alberto Callaspo each drove in a run for the Royals, who have lost their last five games.
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Thu, 07/02/2009 - 01:45 by surajdogra
Toronto -- Ricky Romero and Jason Frasor combined on a four-hit shutout Wednesday, leading Toronto to a 5-0 win over the Tampa Bay Rays, ending a four-game slide.
Romero (6-3) gave up the four hits in eight innings (113 pitches) with four walks and seven strikeouts without giving up a hit after six innings.
Frasor struck out the side in the ninth.
Adam Lind and Scott Rolen hit back-to-back solo homers for the Blue Jays in the eighth. Both had two hits, with Rolen extending his hitting streak to 19 straight contests with a sixth-inning single.
Rod Barajas hit a solo homer in the seventh and Marco Scutaro also had one RBI for the Blue Jays, who closed their nine-game home stand on a positive note.
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Wed, 06/17/2009 - 12:24 by preet_20
Denver, June 17: The Tampa Bay Rays churned out 17 hits, including 11 for extra bases, in a 12-4 inter-league drubbing of the Colorado Rockies Tuesday.
Gabe Kapler had four RBI and B.J. Upton drove in three for Tampa Bay as they snapped Colorado's 11-game winning streak in high fashion.
Jeff Niemann (6-4) held Colorado to three runs over five innings for the win. Jorge De La Rosa (2-7) took the loss after being roughed up for seven runs in 2 1/3 innings.
Evan Longoria hit a two-out, solo home run to open the scoring in the first inning. The Rays then racked up four runs in the second, two of which scored on Kapler's triple.
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Sun, 06/14/2009 - 23:32 by Salinder Kumar
St. Petersburg, Fla. -- The Tampa Bay Rays have placed reliever Jason Isringhausen on the 60-day disabled list with a right elbow ailment.
The veteran right-hander had season-ending elbow surgery in 2008 while with the St. Louis Cardinals, signed with the Rays in spring training and started this season on the disabled list.
He left a relief appearance against the Washington Nationals Saturday after throwing just 2/3 of a inning and Sunday went back on the DL.
Manager Joe Maddon said on the team's Web site the pitcher would undergo magnetic resonance imaging Monday.
""It's an elbow strain," Maddon said. "We won't really know until we get the MRI. I just know he didn't feel real good."
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Wed, 06/03/2009 - 00:06 by Shruti Sharma
St. Petersburg, Fla -- Hopes that the Tampa Bay Rays could build a new baseball stadium at a Pinellas County, Fla., landfill site have been dealt a blow, county officials say.
Environmental engineers say building a ballpark at the shuttered Toytown landfill, one of several potential sites on a list of possible stadium locations, would require pilings to be driven so deeply they could come close to the limestone and fresh water aquifer that feeds into Tampa Bay, the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times reported Tuesday.
Bob Hauser, Pinellas County's solid waste director, said officials want to avoid driving pilings so deeply into the clay near the bay, asserting it could pose environmental hazards.
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