It was a busy opening day, and a fun one for Rays fans.
It’s hard to analyze most of it, as a single game is the definition of a small sample size, but there was one moment during the Rays eighth-inning comeback against the Red Sox that definitely deserves a closer look, because it may have given direct information about what managers Kevin Cash and Alex Cora think about the evaluations of their own players.
Let’s recap the bottom of the eigth inning, which began with the Rays down by four runs:
- The Mighty Rob Refsnyder (RHB) was called out on strikes.