ST. PETERSBURG -- As Kevin Kiermaier watched the situation unfold in front of him, he couldn't believe it.
Squatting in center field Thursday afternoon with his hands resting on his chin, the Rays' two-time Gold Glove outfielder shook his head while looking on in astonishment as Kansas City's Whit Merrifield rounded third and easily scored on what should have been nothing more than a single in the eighth inning.
Instead, another badly-timed lapse in judgment on a grounder up the middle caused the ball to skid beneath the hard-charging Kiermaier's glove and roll to the wall for his third error in the four-game set as Tampa Bay was blanked, 6-0, at Tropicana Field.