The Tampa Bay Rays became just the seventh team in MLB history to win their first 10 games of the season.
Add it all up, and the Rays are the first team to open the season 10-0 since 1987, needing three more wins to match the MLB record for best start.Which baseball team has the most consecutive wins to start the season?The Braves opened the 1982 season 13-0 under new manager Joe Torre, who had gone just 286-420 in the five previous seasons as skipper of the
. Atlanta finished the season 89-73 to win the NL West but lost in the NLCS to the St. Louis Cardinals.The last team to open the season with 13 straight wins was the '87 Brewers. Only problem was that less than a month later they went on a 12-game losing streak. The Brewers finished the season at 91-71, finishing third in the AL East and missing the playoffs.set the major league record at the time with 11 wins to open the season.
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