Few things in baseball are more frustrating than a struggling bullpen. You hand your relief corps a lead only to watch them give it away once again. Of course, whenever a reliever blows a 1-0 lead, we have to blame the offense. If the Tampa Bay Rays had scored more than one run on Friday, they probably would have won anyway. Instead, it was the same old flaw dragging this team down as they lost their sixth game in a row and fell below .500.
The lone Rays run came on a Steven Souza Jr. solo home run in his first at-bat back after he was out with a wrist injury.