Some of my fellow and sister writers are convinced that afternoon getaway games are the Rays kryptonite. It just seems like these are games where the Rays offense is as lit as damp newspaper. (I wanted to check that theory against actual scores, but the online schedule doesn’t show start times for past games, so we’ll go with our gut here).
Today, then, could have been one of those games. The Tigers starting pitcher, Daniel Norris, a soft-tossing lefty, seemed like just the sort of meh pitcher who would inexplicably shut the line up down.
That is not, however, what happened.