For the first time in two weeks, dating back to the Royals double header, the Rays have scored six or more runs and this baseball team started feeling like their usual self.
Zack Littell, who is officially being stretched to be the Rays fifth starter (unless something changes at the trade deadline in the next two days), made his longest appearance of the year in his second true start, going five innings with four strikeouts over 82 pitches.
And it was a solid outing. Kevin Cash had enough faith in Littell to wait until 75 pitches to have Erasmo Ramirez begin warming up for the Rays for the first time since 2017 (!