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Rays Lose Close One To Yankees

 Tommy’s out on personal business today and I’m busy here at work so the Recap is going to be short today.

Well they can’t win them all.  The Rays fell to the Yankees last night 2-1.  It was a fairly unexciting game to watch.  James Shields and Mike Mussina were the stars of the game.  Shields with 7.1IP allowing 6 hits, 2ER and racking up 6Ks.  Mussina went 6.1IP allowing only 1 run on 4 hits.  Evan Longoria scored in the 7th inning on a single by Dioner Navarro.  I’m not putting up any Box Score Stars cause frankly there weren’t any.  Navarro, Carlos Pena and Cliff Floyd all picked up two hits with Gabe Gross getting the only other hit with a double. 

It was a game that could have gone either way.  The Rays got a little unlucky on some bloop hits by the Yankees, but other than that it was a very well pitched affair.  Shields finally allowed some earned runs at home, but did end up lowering his ERA to 3.05. 

Next up on the mound for the Rays is the newly contract-ed Scott Kazmir.  Hopefully he can pitch as well as or better than his last start and the Rays can take the series.  The loss dropped the Rays to 23-17 on the season, but a Red Sox loss kept the Rays in first place.

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