After winning two close games to launch the 2021 season in Miami, the Rays have lost a depressing four in a row.
They’ve lost close games. They’ve lost blow-outs. They’ve had games where they have left a frustrating number of men on base, and games where they have hardly gotten anyone on base at all.
They have committed base-running blunders. They have given up key runs on wild pitches, on errors, on plain old bad defense. And some of their pitchers have just been easily hittable.
Not exactly what we expected from the defending American League champions.