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Early off-days have Pearce, Rays antsy to play

ST. PETERSBURG -- Most everybody looks forward to a day off. Rays players like a day off as much as the next guy, they just wish there hadn't been so many early in the season.

Monday will be the Rays' third off-day of the young season, and they've had a game postponed by rain.

"You don't want the day off," Steve Pearce said. "We played a series and then an off-day and you don't even want it, because you know the grind is later on in the year and that's when we want those off-days.