Tampa Bay Rays principal owner Stuart Sternberg joined the team Monday at Tropicana Field for the start of the three-game series with the Boston Red Sox.
It's been an enjoyable season, Sternberg said. And that shouldn't surprise anyone who's followed his team this season.
Sternberg's most enjoyable?
"It would probably be Dan Johnson's home run the other night, because it was the most improbable moment," Sternberg said of Johnson's game-tying ninth-inning home run in last Tuesday's win at Boston. "But we've got a lot more memories to create. I won't even remember that two weeks from now."
Yes, you will. "Yes, I will," he admitted.
STAT OF THE DAY
.128: The Rays' batting average with runners in scoring position on the nine-game road trip that ended Sunday. They were 11-for-86.
HE SAID IT
"Let's just say I played for free." - Fernando Perez (above), who grew up an hour from Yankee Stadium and who played baseball at Columbia University on the amount of tickets he left for the Rays' weekend series in the Bronx.
TONIGHT'S GAME
RED SOX AT RAYS
7:10 p.m., ION, 1250-AM
Once again, Andy Sonnanstine will try to tie Rolando Arrojo's franchise record for wins in a season with 14 when he faces the Red Sox tonight at the Trop.
Sonnanstine is 0-1 with three no-decisions in his quest to match Arrojo's record, set back in 1998.
One of those no-decisions was the result of a blown save by Dan Wheeler in Chicago. The most recent came in the Rays 4-2, 14-inning victory at Fenway Park last Wednesday. Sonnanstine allowed an unearned run over seven innings in his first appearance against the Red Sox this season.
He will be opposed tonight by Josh Beckett, who will make his fifth start against the Rays this season. He last faced them last Wednesday when he allowed a run in his six innings of the Rays marathon win.
- Herald Staff
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