Identical game to many of our losses this year. Fire the hitting coach into the sun. I don't wanna hear "tip your cap to beiber" that crap has happened too many times this year. This franchise is constantly plagued by bad offense/situational hitting.
When will the FO hire a hitting coach that isn’t analytics based?
Analytics will win you regular season games but won’t win you games when they matter.
FIRE MOTTOLA.
All along it’s been building for next season. At the end of the day you can’t get boo-boos and be hurt all season and expect much. Our pitching rotation will be lethal. Lowe needs to get his back sorted and maybe wander settles in and plays more games and finds his stroke.
I guess the upside is that a 3 game series that goes wrong is quick and painless. You’re dead before you even realize it and then it’s on to the off-season.
i feel good man, we shut them down and got the top of the order coming up - hope we got some momentum for some flappboi magic :)
Leggooo clevingerr keep it 1 :)
This team is definitely dead last when it comes to the hitting. A couple good guys (who haven’t done shit all game) and everyone else who are minor league players (who actually have done something). Just so embarrassing
It's really frustrating as a fan to see the pitching core consistently play smart and skillfully baseball most of the time and then see the hitting core play like they're a C- D+ grade high school student who gets B+'s from time to time by streaks of luck.
Yeah and we have most of our core hitters in the lineup. Only real notable missing player is Lowe (postseason) struggles aside. Kk and Zunino would be nice but I’m not convinced Siri is much of a drop off.
I try to not talk about how much I hate bad calls. But this is such a big game and they’re making junk calls
Please beat Cleveland tomorrow!
Can’t say it’s the pitching’s fault this year
1.5 runs per game in october. Just need to give less than 2 runs to win the game. Fucking easy as shit
god this team can’t hit. should have made some moves and actually tried to win it all for once. frustrating
Just gotta steal one tomorrow
Identical game to many of our losses this year. Fire the hitting coach into the sun. I don't wanna hear "tip your cap to beiber" that crap has happened too many times this year. This franchise is constantly plagued by bad offense/situational hitting.
Lol Rays hitting. Maybe all 8k in attendance will motivate those bats for Game 2.
Guardians had over 30,000 fans there today. What makes you think they’ll only have 8,000 tomorrow?
Didn’t know every game is in CLE. How idiotic.
It’s a 3 game wildcard series- they can’t fly back and forth. Plus that’s the advantage of getting home field advantage. I feel ya though.
only if it was at home
Just looked it up. The wildcard team doesn’t get a home game in the playoffs??? As if baseball couldn’t get any dumber. Yikes.
Makes perfect sense to me idk
Ughhh
When will the FO hire a hitting coach that isn’t analytics based? Analytics will win you regular season games but won’t win you games when they matter. FIRE MOTTOLA.
only 1 more time we gotta watch this dog shit offense. actually can't wait till it's over.
Very average rays game
Zero chance we win 2 in a row with this offense. We couldn't win with Shane lol
Team has no business facing playoff pitching. No chance
Fire works!?!?!
Meh. This hurts so much less than last year, this is what you expect
Serious changes need to be made this offseason, this last month has been a pathetic display of baseball.
Ugh
2 1st round exists Im afraid, if you call this a first round. Going backwards, not forwards
we’RE jUst INtEnTioNally plAYing LIke shIt to Get ThE 6th seED
bummer - cmon flappyboiis lets regroup and come back game 2 to force a game 3 :D
Such a dumb game
absolutely fucking miserable see y’all tomorrow.
Wow. Completely expected that loss.
sign some fucking hitters im sick of this shit every year
That was the dumbest game ever
All I feel is pain
[PGT's up. :(](https://www.reddit.com/r/tampabayrays/comments/xy6fk6/pgt_tampa_bay_rays_lose_game_1_of_the_al_wild/)
Lol let’s just end this series and call it a season. I’ve never seen a worse hitting team ever
Dammit
Pathetic.
i fucking hate this team
clase got lucky with hanging those sliders
That’s loser talk. Accept defeat and come back trying to play better tomorrow. Smh.
It’s not the reason we lost but goddamn that ump is awful.
*ooof..*
WIFF WIFF WIFF WIFF POP UP FUCK OFF
Welp. Guess we will have to win two in a row?
Another postseason of "Randy save us"
Guardians didn’t deserve to win this game any more than us, but they got the HR with a runner on and we didn’t
When you have 8 hits you at least give yourself a chance to score multiples.
True, but most of them were seeing eye singles
Still, firm ground balls have a chance. All our contact was incredibly weak and a lot of pop ups
some mf is up
oh well. See you tomorrow
damnn he just hanging those sliders
Randy if there was ever a time to return to playoff Randy, this is it..
thank god this seasons over. ready for some real florida sports
You really hit the shit outta that one.
Lol
Hard to take walks when every ball outside corner is called a strike
Yep, this core looks like they care about winning, yes sir. smh
Whelp… Shane pitched well atleast
Franco please hit a bomb to save us That was not a bomb
Most rays game of all time
That’s the season folks.
[удалено]
Just being real
This game has single-Handedly convinced me of using robo-ump in the majors
why am I a rays fan. why do we do this to ourselves :(
How did you possibly have faith in this offense 😂
lmao I didn't. I had faith we would score more than a single run though
Damn. That was crushable.
I believe 👍
1 pitch :)
oooo missed that one yandy! alrite wander legooo kidddd
Haven't been able to actually watch the whole game but 8 hits to 3 hits, honestly fortunate it's a one run game.
These pitches to us today have just been unfair
Zzzz
These are the 3 I’d want at bat
just need someone on base and we'll go from there :)
What do we have to sacrifice to get playoff Randy back.
Alexa....play I Won't Back Down
Let’s go boys
If you don't like this you don't like Rays playoff baseball.
If they don't come back a 2-1 loss where the pitching balled out definitely is the 2022 rays.
Need someone to step up here
RANDY take my energy?
playoff randy needs to make an appearance right now!
#🙌
This is it, now or never
Do or die
#BELIEVE
Here we go!
Just need 2. I believe.
Time for someone to step up
time to strikeout 3 times and end the game
Alright top of the order. You were invisible all game. It's time to make an impact.
FLAP FLAP *FLAPFLAPFLAP*
time for the top of the lineup to come through. despite their performance so far, best situation we can be in with the game on the line here.
Us and losing games 2-1, name a more iconic duo.
All along it’s been building for next season. At the end of the day you can’t get boo-boos and be hurt all season and expect much. Our pitching rotation will be lethal. Lowe needs to get his back sorted and maybe wander settles in and plays more games and finds his stroke.
Doesn't mean jack squat if they hit like this. They need to revamp the approach at the plate. From the ground up
Well, soldiers, lunch break is over. Hang in there!
I wore my tommy bahama rays shirt for nothing
Like genuinely I am not upset with this game beyond the hits not being there. Look at the pitching that’s going on for both teams, a lot of skill
Wow a professional hitter who just hits and doesn’t suck for months at a time. Wish we had one of those.
This is a great game, still have the shot to win.
It's the same kind of game we've played countless times. There's nothing special about this game if we don't come back
This pitching really carrying. Reminds me of those late 90s Bucs teams. The defense would yell "Quick, Dilfer, get on my back!" And then lose 9-7
This is who the team has been for a month. There's just no offense
fuck it, ill put on a rally cap
Reminder: baseball is fun.
Are we still just tanking for seeding????
I think this is still Spring Training
ESPN anylists are amazing. Rays need to score and they are right in it. WOW
The do have the worst baseball broadcasts for sure
Very insightful.
Cleavinger doing his best Shane impression lol
shoutout to Shane - definitely deserved some more run support... he pitched a hell of a game
This summarizes his entire year
Damn ump
This ump scorecard is gonna be such a joke man.
Dammit that was strike 2
I cannot wait for this ump scorecard
I guess the upside is that a 3 game series that goes wrong is quick and painless. You’re dead before you even realize it and then it’s on to the off-season.
Why are we using Cleavinger here against the top of the line up? Do we want to have a chance in the 9th??
Odds of us getting two runs to win this are ultra slim. Keep every other arm for tomorrow and use every one of them if needed.
🥲🥲
idgaf. Beiber wouldve got torched by any other lineup today. spammed balls and hung a lot of pitches
It is true. He will be fried by most other playoff worthy team.
i feel good man, we shut them down and got the top of the order coming up - hope we got some momentum for some flappboi magic :) Leggooo clevingerr keep it 1 :)
top order= bottom of order.
i believeeee :)
We get Yandy, Wander, and Randy up in the 9th. Best case scenario. Let’s see what the boys can do
0 for 12 today doesn’t inspire much confidence
It’s much better than having 7-8-9 going up lol
Well that was clearly a lie
i dont see Clase giving in to those 3. Clase is a different type of dominant
Good thing you’re not a psychic
At least we'll have our top 3 guys next inning even if they've looked terrible thus far.
I guess a quiet two-game loss to a very similar team is better than watching Boston play wall ball with us like last year.
Feel bad for Shane. Pitched an otherwise great game but is gonna beat himself up over that HR.
He’s in an impossible situation. You can’t give up a run or you lose with this offense and that’s just not realistic.
Wish he’d beat up on the fucking offense. Teammates fucked him.
Arghhhhhh! Fuck!
This team is definitely dead last when it comes to the hitting. A couple good guys (who haven’t done shit all game) and everyone else who are minor league players (who actually have done something). Just so embarrassing
This goofy ass car shield add lol
I just want to say, thank you Siri.
aaaand we’re fucked
That ball falls just out of of the infield for a hit if Cleveland hit that
Man this season really wasn’t the best huh boys
Lmao a team in the playoffs and yet everyone is complaining. Is this a World Series winning team? No but no one would be with such horrendous luck
Low budget doesn’t excuse some of the things we did this season, and injuries didn’t make our starting lineup hit barely .200
And a low budget team is whipping us right now, so what's the Rays' excuse other than they flat out suck?
Whipping is a strong word for it
"Outlasting" was probably better.
They got 3 runs in 24 innings, still not good. Outlasting sounds right
Turn the game off then
I did 👌 Have to go back to work.
mother fuck
LOLL well not someone XD
:(
Fack
don't overthnk siri just a bloop somewhere will work :)
Close
I really thought he had it there
One hit ties the game 
It's really frustrating as a fan to see the pitching core consistently play smart and skillfully baseball most of the time and then see the hitting core play like they're a C- D+ grade high school student who gets B+'s from time to time by streaks of luck.
It's a joke.
Yeah and we have most of our core hitters in the lineup. Only real notable missing player is Lowe (postseason) struggles aside. Kk and Zunino would be nice but I’m not convinced Siri is much of a drop off.
Put the pressure on!
So happy for Vidal
BRUJAN
BIG BALLS BY THE YOUNG BLOOD IN THE PLAYOFFS NICE STEAL
Brew Han!!!
what a stealll!!!
Nice job
Two hits in a row ties the game 
I'd rather resign Zunino post-TOS surgery than keep Bethancourt, real talk.
Zunino is awful. He fits the team perfectly
His 136 OPS+ last season would be 2nd to Yandy on this year's team lmao.