I knew when I agreed last week to recap this game that I could be writing about either the most or least significant game of the year.
Happily it’s insignificant, with the Rays clinching already on Friday, although a shot for a home game on Wednesday might have been nice.
I started out taking notes for a traditional inning by inning recap but midway through I realized this was a little like recapping a Spring Training game. The score meant little, the starting players were largely gone by the 6th inning, we saw six Rays pitchers, and the main point was to work on stuff and not get injured.