As they prepare to close a June to remember, the Rays of Tampa Bay also hope to start another excellent week.
Propelled into the continuation of the American league qualifiers and continuing the Yankees of New York first place in the East, the Rays host the opening of a series of three games against athletics on Monday evening.
The Rays are 17-9 (percentage of victories of 0.654) during the month after losing 5-1 at Baltimore Orioles on Sunday. The reverse concluded a week of 4-2 which included a sweeping to the Royals of Kansas City and a defeat of three games against their division competitors.
However, Brandon Lowe’s 18th circuit on Sunday has extended his strike sequence to 16 best games from the majors.
The second second goal player who swing Lefty reaches .403 during the sequence with five circuits and 13 points produced. It is 6 for 11 with runners in a score position.
With an out -of -competition rotation, the director of the Rays, Kevin Cash, will send his AS to the first half of Drew Rasmussen against the club of the last place of Al West.
More than 16 departures, Rasmussen (7-5, 2.45 ERA) has become an All-Star lock and the best team launcher with the left flames Shane McClanahan since 2023 and currently looking for aid for a nervous problem.
The Rasmussen on the right will make its fourth appearance (third start) against athletics. It is 2-0 with an MPM of 0.69 on 13 rounds in three career appearances (two departures) which only gave three strokes for the A.
Rasmussen, 29, fought by three major surgery of the elbow, forcing the staff to limit their workload by keeping it to a maximum of five or six heats per departure.
“He always makes things difficult because he is so good, we feel so well when he is on the mound with us, but we have to continue to be intelligent and to monitor the overall work body and the workload,” said Rasmussen on Wednesday delivered his fifth outdoors out of the last eight departures.
Added the launcher: “They just watch over me and my greatest good. And it is difficult to complain.”
Athletics is 11-16 this month, a June who saw the Skipper Mark Kotsay team producing its sequence of four victories of four season games two weeks ago.
However, athletics has the worst differential from the AL (minus-42) and has 18 games in less than 0,500 after losing 12-5 Sunday in New York and abandoning two of the three against the Yankees.
During the 7-0 Saturday victory on the Yankees led by the former New York JP Sears howler – the team’s sixth bleaching this season – A turned to their Brent Rooker offensive show to take an unpleasant goalless scheme of 27 sleeves.
“It took a big stroke of the guy who is the leader, the guy we rely on for the offensive,” Kotsay said. “It is a bat in the middle of the order. It is the All-Star, and it struck 39 circuits last year. … It started the offensive today.”
After his best outing this season in Detroit, the starter of athletics Jacob Lopez (2-4, 3.56) will face another team of caliber of the eliminatory series in the Rays at their beginnings against them.
On Wednesday in seven-roundless rounds against the Tigers of Central-Leading, the left-hander gave only three strokes, a walk and a blow by field while removing six. Two departures earlier, he pulled six laundries against the Royals of Kansas City.
During his last 23 executives on four departures, the 27 -year -old gave only one race deserved for a 0.39 MPM with 29 stick withdrawals.
– Field level media
