A's 8, Rays 2 - Bullpen Goes Boom

Probably the exact face Jake made as he watched the 7th inning. - Cary Edmondson-USA TODAY SportsWell it started out ok. The Rays played 7 1/2 innings of competitive baseball, and even held the lead before the Oakland bats erupted in the bottom of the seventh. Aside from a Mark Canha RBI single after a Billy Burns triple in the bottom of the fourth to put the A's up 1-0, all of today's runs were scored in that fateful seventh inning.

It started off just fine. John Jaso walked to lead off the inning, and was pulled for the speedy wheels of Kevin Kiermaier. A Forsythe ground out advanced Kiermaier to second, and a Cabby single to left sent him to third base. A pinch-hitting Desmond Jennings…