James Shields walked five of the first ten hitters he faced The Rays loaded the bases in each of the first two innings. They didn’t score in either.
That’s not good!
The first inning featured one-out walks from Kevin Kiermaier and Carlos Gomez. C.J. Cron grounded to first to move the runners up, in front of yet another walk, this one to Joey Wendle. Unfortunately, Matt Duffy fanned on four pitches, swinging over a nasty curve from Shields for strike three.
The second inning was the one that really hurt.