With the Minnesota Twins loss to the New York Yankees on Monday night, the Tampa Bay Rays are now only five games behind them for the second AL Wild Card spot. However, with 12 games to go, there are currently seven teams competing for the same spot. Out of those teams the only one that the Rays face the rest of the season is the Baltimore Orioles and this happens seven more times.
While the playoffs seem out of reach there is some feel good stories that are occurring the rest of the season. The first one is Tuesday night when longtime Ray’s manager Joe Maddon returns to Tropicana Field to face his old team for the first time in St.