Tampa Bay Rays News and Links: Testing pitching depth

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Yeah, there were a lot of baserunners in the Rays 8-7 Monday night victory over the Red Sox, but how does a nine inning game go just shy of four and half hours? Last night’s 8-2 victory over the Red Sox zipped by at 3 hours 25 minutes.

You can never be too rich, too thin or have too much pitching, am I right? Charlie Morton is on the 10-day IL with shoulder soreness. Kevin Cash hopes he will not be out much longer than those ten days.

But just yesterday we learned bad news about Brendan McKay, who had been at Port Charlotte after testing positive for COVID soon after reporting to Summer Camp. He too has been shut down now:

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