Tampa Bay breaks .500 mark after knocking off Marlins
Don't look now, but the Tampa Bay Devil Rays are above .500 for the first time in franchise history.
The perennial last-place team beat the Florida Marlins 6-4 on Saturday night to become the first club in major league history to climb above .500 at any point in a season after being 18 games below.
"Why stop there?" Carl Crawford said after driving in three runs, including a go-ahead RBI double in the seventh inning, to pace the club's record-tying 13th consecutive interleague victory and 15th win in 16 games overall.
"We're playing well," Crawford added. "Let's see what we can do. Who knows what can happen?"
Uh, Carl...let's not get ahead of ourselves here, OK? Remember, you play on a team with the worst ownership, the ugliest uniforms in all of sports, and that calls the worst stadium in professional baseball home. You might want to hold off on buying those World Series tickets for your family.
On May 19th, Tampa Bay was 10-28. After yesterday, they are 36-35. Not exactly the stuff that championships are made of, but when your team has been a running joke all throughout it's short history, I suppose you'll take whatever you can get. Oh, and I almost forgot...included in their run was a 12-game winning streak.
Yep, it just might time to bury that bus out back for and stock up on ammunition, food, and water. The next thing you know, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse will be galloping across the back 40....