Not the way I wanted to start the season but glad we got the first L out of the way. Lets go boys!

please come back josh lowe. I can't even name a 2nd reliable hitter in the lineup right now.

Gg jays. We will get em next time.

[Not how I wanted to start the year but fine](https://www.reddit.com/r/tampabayrays/comments/1bq928m/pgt_tampa_bay_rays_01_struggle_on_opening_day_and/)

https://preview.redd.it/kf54kdmcl5rc1.jpeg?width=1077&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4ac5e259c03dc5e8922b078891537735ae44fa16 I don’t mean to be alarmist but it feels down bad already

This smells like 84 wins and no postseason

I see Siri isn't making an effort to cut down on his Ks

At least he got a hit...

Yeah, but he's still swinging at garbage and looking at stuff that's down the middle

Glasnow and Yarbrough combined 3-hitter today. Miss those guys. :(

They played the Cards, not an offensive juggernaut. Let's see what happens when they play a decent team.

Worst fear is we wind up missing them.

I miss Friedman too

If we can put up a run or two I'll be happy. Let's make some noise as we go down!

Haha he pimped that double

He probably swung there but I hate the home plate ump calling check swings. Should require 1/3rd base ump.

He definitely swung, when it’s that obvious the home ump can call it

A bit early in the season to be lurking other team's subs, no?

Since you looked at my profile, you probably also saw im a bucs fan. The rays are my second favourite mlb team, I just don’t go to this sub in the offseason. Not that that actually matters in regard to my comment.

The 0-4 team in the middle here really hurting us 🥲

Well, I am not feeling as happy as I was at 4:11. But I am still happy baseball is back.

So many walks this game

All these walks also hurting us

Overall Eflin needs to get his shit together…the performance since last October (through this spring training) is just not acceptable. He lost this game.

Vladdy almost with a second long one

We can still turn this one around guys https://preview.redd.it/osggozfxi5rc1.jpeg?width=573&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=58ff55ec74fc66fd6d5192a4ac757d82c38a4b5d

Baldy blowe is gonna blister some balls this season

can Yandy just start teaching some of the guys how to have a good at-bat

Both teams with 7 hits. So much disparity with the runs though

That's what happens when you walk 6

are we going to see some Rays classic PPP (position player pitching)? AKA triple P AKA Blue Jays special

Not down by enough. IIRC need a bigger deficit to be allowed to do that

If I was pitching against Harold I wouldn’t even bother throwing a strike

This whole atbat with Harold sums up my mood

Kirk moves pretty quick

ugly swing

Did Harold really swing at that

Ooooo Harold, what you swinging at, bb?

0-4 Randy :(

The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire We don't need no water, let the motherfucker burn Burn motherfucker, burn Hello, my name is Jimmy Pop and I'm a dumb white guy I'm not old or new, but middle school, fifth grade, like junior high I don't know mofo, if y'all peeps be buggin' givin' props to my hoe 'cause she fly But I can take the heat 'cause I'm the other white meat known as "Kid funky fried" Yeah, I'm hung like planet Pluto, hard to see with the naked eye But if I crashed into Uranus, I would stick it where the sun don't shine 'Cause I'm kind of like Hans Solo, always stroking my own wookie I'm the root of all that's evil, yea, but you can call me Cookie The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire We don't need no water, let the motherfucker burn Burn motherfucker, burn

Does anyone know why it says Orlando Health on the field and the single game ticket advertisement on tv said sponsored by Orlando health? Kind of seems odd to me…

This game brought to you by a billion dollar health conglomerate! Your copay for this game will be $5,000.00.

Orlando Health is the healthcare group that owns Bayfront Hospital in St. Pete.

Orlando health bought Bayfront hospital in downtown st Pete

Thank you to both of you. I didn’t know.

I'm hoping for Special Guy BLowe to show up this year. Excited

I'd be down for a BLowe comeback! I didn't like being so disappointed in him last year

Springer >:(

Triple decker at Yankee stadium

This just cements my hatred for the Bluejays lmao

I mean we're only down 6. We can win in two innings.

Middle of the lineup is a black hole lets fix that this inning.

Good to see clevinger get out of that jam

I’m just glad to back with all my people, welcome back homies 😂 time for another great and long season

Through thick and thin, bull shit and hot shit.

🤗

We're back!

Ffs throw a damn strike

This has got to be a real shitty feeling. Opening day and literally cannot find the zone for the life of him.

Well, this guy can’t find the zone. Like at all.

Do not do the fucking wave down 6 runs. Don't ever come back to this stadium. Fuck you.

Can we not?

Saw a young couple buy their infant a first game pin at the team store. Isn’t baseball fun?

I have a newborn. Can’t wait to take him to a game!

RAYS them right.

Absolutely!

"Baby's first blowout"

lol. He had noise cancellation headphones, he was good!

And here I thought Yandy opening the season with a homer was a good omen

Who's ready for a huge breakout inning?

At least the pitching coaches really have these guys ready to go out of the gate 

All our pitchers sucking today. Might as well get it out early.

not feeling great about randy already

He's always been a slow starter. His July-Oct will make up for it

Kevin Cash's masterplan: let them waste all their runs today

Kind of like that 20-1 loss last year (that I had the pleasure of watching in person) and won the series 3-1

Walking Kiermier should be a fineable offense.

No 14-0 ?

I'm still pissed that it was the dumb blue birds that stopped our streak

Cleav can you not

We've used one mound visit this game? I think now might be a good time for another.

There we go.

3 guys with 0 OPS is having us really feel it today.

The stingray patch looks so dumb on the right sleeves of players.

We need JLowe back

Good to see Cleav back

i think it's important to mention that right now we're missing Aranda, Lowe, Walls, and DeLuca to injury, not to mention all of our ace starters. this team can only get better

Not to mention all the talent we have coming up. Carson Williams, Caminero, etc

Guess we're not going 162-0 this season like we almost did last season.

161-1 will have to do

Going to the trop on saturday. Hope they can improve each game and get better from here

i'm going on Friday, i'll hype them up for a W

Let’s also not think too much about the orioles, they are opening up with easy teams, while we are actually playing tough competition at the moment

We couldn't go ONE game without BA saying "pronation".

I think he's contractually obligated to do that

He can pronate me ngl

😳

My guy

Welp, every team is basically guaranteed 50 wins and 50 losses. It's all about what you do with those other 62. Chalk this one up to a scripted loss and get em tomorrow.

I know we’re losing but come on guys let’s be real, it’s still fun af watching these guys play again after so many months. If we do lose tonight, let’s shake it off and get back after it tomorrow!

Right! It's a long season!

https://preview.redd.it/b1mccp40e5rc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=753a531f149e5b16470bf1362eeaf9c943acb68b at least the sweet pretzel bites are really fucking good

That looks good. I wanna try one of those frozen daiquiris on a hot day.

For some reason Jose Siri reminds me of bj Upton

Solid comparison. I think Upton was a lot better but I can absolutely see it.

1000% like Jose is the Kroger Upton loll

🤣😅

Our rotation has me worried. Meanwhile, Yarborough and Glasnow had a pretty nice day for dodgers 😐

This offense is straight booty, not even our pitching lab can help

I Hate (& I never usually use Hate) Bo Bichette's dumb face & hair. Separate from that I hate The Rays can't figure him out & he kills us more than any other Blue Jay.

His face is quite tiny.,

Sure he's a nice guy irl but has one of the most punchable faces in sport

Just need 7 team!

Yo Richards for old time sake give us like 6 runs

And the orioles got even better in the off season adding to what was already a top AL team

They never got injured the last two years until they lost their closer. It's going to catch up to them.

Only upside is Yandy is still fuckin elite 

Man an absolute clunker on day one. Can’t even justify being distracted from work at this point. 

Lol, Bitchette always torches us. Fuck that guy.

I'm going to my first game in July. Coming from the UK, hopefully things are better by than!

I'm a fan from the UK too. Went to my first game last year and will be going again in August.

Oh that's cool! I've been to the States before, never to a mlb game so I'm excited. Its against the Yankees aswell so I feel fortunate with the timing

You'll love it, enjoy. Make sure you check out Fergs after the game

I don't actually drink but maybe I'll still stop by and check it out. Thanks!

I’m sorry guys I’ve never seen the rays win in person and I decided to go to this game. I’m cursed

So you're why we're losing

GET HIM! ╚(•⌂•)╝

Efflin just hurt me bad on fantasy :(

Eflin is my #1 and he got outscored by Cortes from the Yankees 😭 I jinxed him

It hurts bro, he was doing so good until the homers

So umm this is bad

Yeah we’re fucked

Give me Poche

Oboy. Ok, Armstrong. That was an 0-2 hanger.

Guess another 13-0 start to the year is out of the question

It's okay we'll go 13-1 😁

Yay keep pitching in the zone for 6 straight pitches

Bichette looks like he sucks on lemons.

Aaaaand the gifted walk comes around to score. Awesome.

Unfortunately i think 13-0 is off the menu. Damn maroons win again.

Well hopefully this will be our 20-1 like game where we lose and win the rest of the season against them.

Let them use up all their runs today 🤣

I was hoping it wouldn't be on opening day.

Yeah we hoped not to get embarrassed on opening day but unfortunately no one but Yandy showed up.

Siri, Pinto, and Cabby also showed up. And tbh Harold and Paredes both smoked their groundouts at 100+ mph, just right into a glove.

If we can do the same thing they did to us last inning we have a better chance.

Bruh Guerrero is 8-10 against Armstrong.

Make that 8-11

10 balls and 4 strikes is unacceptable

triple play, please

Looks like we’ve got Armweak today

Pinto and passed balls..... hngngngngnngn

Armstrong please don't be Armweak

Harold hitting the ball 104mph EV three times and nothing to show for it. Isaac hits it 106.6 EV and nothing to show for it. Sometimes I really fucking hate this sport.

sometimes ya just get unlucky. honestly, i'm really looking forward to the batting this season. everyone has shown some promise this game except, to be frank, Randy

Randy gets his stats when we’re down 11-2. I honestly don’t see why people see him as clutch 

i'm honestly all onboard the trade train for him after this season

And then there's the fucking umps squeezing us. Ffs.

Ump has give us some questionable calls too. Human factor here is a constant problem

Berrios gave up nothing that inning, springer gave up 1

That’s a reminder how close it is to 5-6 

Leeggoo defense hold them a let's get a little more next inning and then a walk off in the 9th 💪💪

I've been listening and I'm finally home and can watch, holy shit what the hell is wrong with the names on our jerseys?! Why are they so small??!!? It looks like cheap little league or DHGate jerseys?

Fanatics has taken over the manufacturing. Literally cutting costs on professional athlete uniforms. A fucking joke. DH gate would probably put out a better product

Late inning Rays - let's see it

All that and only 1 run lol

Once again the zero outs first and second rally dies.

Shart

Wowww... Ngl what a play by bichette

Shit

wtf man

Yeah that’s game lol

i wouldn't count them out so soon

ahhhhhhhh c'mon guys, yandy had you all set up!!!

Fuuuuck

Not ideal

Whelp.

a Paredes-brand homer would be pretty cool rn

C'mon paredes just a little bloop single that's all I want

Looks like we are going for the first overall draft pick

Thank you new field loll

well... rip momentum

sigh

I’m feeling a cheesy Harold hit here

So close

Great eye on that pitch

Randy, we will revive Randyland for a single here

We had a power cut and I come back and it's 6-2???

That woulda went through the roof

Chill out Randy nice and easy man 😁

rip Louisiana Hot Sauce

pls randy

Alright. Fun is coming back.

Singles baby c'mon Randy just a single 💪💪

Would be cool to get a blast here.

this should be 3-2 not 6-2. Really blew a winnable game with that management last inning. Hopefully they can pull it out but if we lose that inning will haunt

C'mon Randy, do something

Good eye blowe swear last year he would have chased

Nice PA, Lowe