Team with MLB's best record beats team with league's third-highest payroll in opener of three-game series
But that is because it is so apt, too ripe and too ridiculous to ignore.
“They’ve got one of the best teams in all of baseball,” Manny Machado said Thursday night. “So it’s definitely going to test us out right now, see where we’re at. But I think we feel confident as a group and just got to go out there and play our best ball.” The Rays took a 1-0 lead in the second inning when No.5 hitter Isaac Paredes lined the first pitcher he saw from Yu Darvish into the seats beyond left field.The Rays got a runner on second base and drove him in with another hit. It is called hitting with runners in scoring position, and the Rays entered Friday batting .288 in that situation while the Padres were at a league-worst .199.
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