We're about four hours away from the first pitch tonight at Fenway Park as I sit to write this, and in a way that's a shame. Tuesday night's 5-4 victory by the Rays over the Red Sox was one you'd like a day or two to savor. ...more

September 10, 2008

Just about every player who has donned a Rays uniform this season has had his moment of stardom. ...more

September 10, 2008

September starts today. It will be a month like no other in Rays history. ...more

September 1, 2008

The never-say-die attitude that has won Joe Maddon's ballclub so many close games this year helped the Rays pull out another one Saturday. ...more

August 31, 2008

CITY OF BROOKSVILLE SOFTBALL Late-inning home runs pace Madyson to City of Brooksville Recreation Department title over top-seeded Coney Island, 16-12. ...more

August 29, 2008

Lloy Ball has a knack for making strong suggestions without saying a word. ...more

August 23, 2008

Maybe embarrassment finally kicked in. Or pride. ...more

August 20, 2008

When the Rays departed Tropicana Field nearly two weeks ago, Joe Maddon hoped his team would be able to break even on a 10-game trip to Seattle, Oakland and Texas. And that was before he knew he would lose three key players - Carl Crawford, Evan Longoria and Troy Percival - along the way. ...more

August 18, 2008

Carlos Pena was an engineering major in college and has said he probably would have pursued a career in computer engineering if baseball hadn't come calling. His conversational patterns tend toward run-on sentences that weave this way and that before reaching a well-thought-out conclusion. On the field and off, his brain inevitably churns through this possibility and that, particularly when he's struggling at the plate. ...more

August 10, 2008

Carlos Pena was wrapping up a thought about driving home the winning run Sunday on a bases-loaded walk in the bottom of the 10th inning when he stopped himself, as if to take it all in mentally. ...more

August 3, 2008