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Maddon was the first manager to have been to the playoffs with the Rays. In 2008, he took them all the way to the World Series, losing to the Philadelphia Phillies in five games. [4] Maddon is the first manager to have won the Manager of the Year Award with the Rays, first winning it in 2008, and again in 2011. [8]
The 2008 season saw the Tampa Bay Rays post their first winning season, their first AL East championship, and their first American League pennant (defeating the rival Boston Red Sox in the ALCS), though they lost to the Philadelphia Phillies in that year's World Series. Since then, the Rays have played in the postseason in 2010, 2011, 2013 ...
The Tampa Bay area has a long association with amateur and professional baseball. Tampa and St. Petersburg were among the first hosts of Major League Baseball spring training in the 1910s, the Tampa Smokers and St. Petersburg Saints were two of the founding members of the minor league Florida State League (FSL) in 1919, and several other communities in the area also hosted FSL teams in the ...
Manager Kevin Cash's late hook for Tyler Glasnow caught viewers by surprise and may have cost the Rays Game 1 of the World Series.
The Rays went to Toronto in search of their 14th straight win, but the Blue Jays had other ideas. Tampa Bay Rays lose first game of 2023 to Blue Jays, finish tied for longest win streak to start a ...
Louis Victor Piniella (/ p iː n ˈ j eɪ j ɑː / [1] [2] usually / p ɪ ˈ n ɛ l ə /; born August 28, 1943) [3] is a former professional baseball player and manager.An outfielder, he played 18 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland Indians, Kansas City Royals and New York Yankees.
Tampa Bay Rays first baseman Yandy Díaz left in the third inning of Sunday’s game against the Toronto Blue Jays with right hamstring tightness. Díaz, second in the AL with .328 batting average ...
Shelton became the Tampa Bay Rays' hitting coach after the 2009 season. [20] [21] The Rays fired him in September 2016. [22] [23] On December 12, 2016, the Toronto Blue Jays hired him as a quality control coach for the 2017 season. [13] [24] [25] On November 6, 2017, the Minnesota Twins hired Shelton as bench coach for the 2018 season. [12] [26 ...