The Tampa Bay Rays will look to extend their winning streak to six games in a row Saturday afternoon when they welcome in the Toronto Blue Jays for the second of three games this weekend. Ryan Yarbrough (5-3, 4.34 ERA) will take on Ross Stripling (3-4, 4.06 ERA), with first pitch scheduled for 1:10.
Rays Starting Lineup
Lowe RF
Diaz 3B
Meadows DH
Arozarena LF
Choi 1B
Walls SS
Wendle 2B
Zunino C
Kiermaier CF
Blue Jays Starting Lineup
Semien 2B
Bichette SS
Guerrero 1B
Springer DH
Hernandez RF
Grichuk CF
Guerriel LF
Espinal 3B
Jansen C
Rays To Get National Spotlight In August
The August 1 game at Tropicana Field between the Rays and the Boston Red Sox will be getting a national spotlight, as the Rays announced Saturday that the game has been selected by ESPN to be their Sunday Night Baseball game.
The game, which was originally slated to start at 1:10, will now start at 7:08 pm, and air on ESPN and not Bally Sports Sun. It will be Tampa Bay’s fifth Sunday night broadcast at home all time, and the first Sunday Night Baseball game at Tropicana Field since July 17, 2011, which was also against Boston.
Steve Carney is the founder and publisher of St. Pete Nine. One of the people most associated with baseball coverage in Tampa Bay, he spent 13 seasons covering the Rays for flagship radio station WDAE, first as producer of Rays Radio broadcasts, then as beat reporter beginning in 2011. He likes new analytics and aged bourbon, and is the owner of one of the ugliest knuckleballs ever witnessed by baseball scouts.
