Rays 12, Palms 6

If nothing else, Palms games look like they will be exciting this year. The Rays turned the tables with a greater execution rate on the hits they had. Miami and Tampa had about the same number of hits (16 and 17) but the Rays clustered theirs, particularly in the 5th and 6th innings. The Rays netted 9 runs between those two innings, roughing up Blake Johnston in his starting debut and Calvin Hobbes, who had a tough time in his second career outing. Evan Longoria collected 5 hits for Tampa as the teams reached .500 in a series that hasn't produced any pitching thus far.

 Tampa Bay Rays 12, Miami Palms 6
 Wednesday, April 3, 2013


 Miami Palms (1-1)                                        Tampa Bay Rays (1-1)                                   
 Player          AB R  H BI BB SO  P  A  E LOB   Ave      Player          AB R  H BI BB SO  P  A  E LOB   Ave     
 ------          -- -  - -- -- --  -  -  - ---   ---      ------          -- -  - -- -- --  -  -  - ---   ---     
 Crisp cf        6  1  1  0  0  0  7  0  0  6   .167      Jennings cf     5  1  1  0  0  1  3  0  0  3   .200
 Prado 3b        5  1  3  0  0  1  0  0  0  0   .400      Rodriguez lf    5  1  1  0  0  0  3  0  0  0   .200
 Ruiz c          3  1  1  0  2  0  5  0  0  0   .333      Zobrist rf      4  3  2  0  1  0  3  0  0  0   .333
 Sohn lf         5  0  2  1  0  0  5  0  0  0   .300      Longoria 3b     5  3  5  3  0  0  1  5  0  0   .700
 Drysdale dh     5  1  1  1  0  0  0  0  0  4   .500      Duncan dh       5  2  2  2  0  2  0  0  0  1   .400
 Markakis rf     4  0  0  0  1  1  3  0  0  2   .100      Escobar ss      5  0  1  2  0  0  0  1  0  0   .222
 Abreu ss        5  2  3  2  0  0  0  0  0  0   .300      Roberts 2b      5  1  1  0  0  0  3  1  0  1   .300
 Dupont 1b       5  0  4  2  0  1  2  0  0  0   .800      Lobaton c       2  1  2  4  1  0  4  0  0  0  1.000
 Johnson 2b      5  0  1  0  0  1  1  0  0  1   .444      Loney 1b        4  0  2  1  0  1  9  1  0  2   .333

                 -- -  - -- -- -- -- -- -- ---                            -- -  - -- -- -- -- -- -- ---           
 Totals          43 6  16 6  3  4  24 2  0  13            Totals          40 12 17 12 2  4  27 8  0  7 


                        1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9      R  H  E
                        -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -      -  -  -
 Miami Palms            1  0  0  0  4  0  1  0  0      6  16 0 
 Tampa Bay Rays         2  1  0  0  5  4  0  0         12 17 0 



 LOB- Miami Palms 13, Tampa Bay Rays 7; 2B- Dupont(1), Abreu(1), Longoria(1); HR- Abreu(1),
 Longoria(2), Lobaton(1); RBI- Dupont 2(2), Drysdale(5), Sohn(1), Abreu 2(2), Longoria 3(5),
 Escobar 2(2), Lobaton 4(4), Loney(1), Duncan 2(2); SF- Lobaton(1); RLSP- Johnson,
 Crisp 2, Markakis, Drysdale 2, Jennings, Loney, Roberts, Duncan; 

 
 


 Miami Palms               IP   H  R  ER BB SO    ERA
 Johnston(L 0-1)           4.2  12 8  8  1  3   15.43
 Hobbes                    1.1  4  4  4  1  0   23.14
 Gonsales                  2.0  1  0  0  0  1    0.00 

 Tampa Bay Rays            IP   H  R  ER BB SO    ERA
 Hellickson(W 1-0)         5.0  10 5  5  2  3    9.00 
 Farnsworth                2.0  3  1  1  1  1    4.50 
 Peralta                   2.0  3  0  0  0  0    0.00 

 Inherited runners-scored- Hobbes 2-0; Pitches-strikes- Johnston 74-48, Hobbes 21-13,
 Gonsales 21-13, Hellickson 99-62, Farnsworth 37-21, Peralta 25-17; Batters faced- Johnston 27,
 Hobbes 9, Gonsales 7, Hellickson 27, Farnsworth 10, Peralta 9;

Player of the Game: Evan Longoria

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