So, the Rays lost tonight.
Normally writing that would depress me, but not tonight.
You see, their Friday night loss — their historic 9th inning meltdown — was so awful that merely losing in somewhat ordinary fashion doesn’t seem worth any emotional energy.
First part of the game
Drew Smyly and Tiger’s pitcher Michael Fulmer traded zeros for the first three innings, both looking sharp. In his recent starts Smyly has been best in the early innings; it’s that second time through the order that seems to be his downfall.
And that was sort of the case tonight.