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During Joe Maddon's tenure as the Rays manager, he and the team coined several slogans, including the mantra 9=8 for the 2008 season, explained by Maddon as meaning that if nine players play nine innings of hard baseball every day, that team would become one of the eight teams who qualify for the postseason. Prior to 2008 season, the Rays had ...
WGES (Spanish) ← 2007. Seasons. 2009 →. The 2008 Tampa Bay Rays season was the 11th season in franchise history, and the first season in which they were known as the Tampa Bay Rays, formerly being known as the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. This was the third season with Joe Maddon managing the club. After being plagued by futility as the Devil Rays ...
ALCS. 2009 →. The 2008 American League Championship Series ( ALCS ), the second round of the 2008 American League playoffs, was a best-of-seven series matching the two winners of the American League Division Series. The AL East Division champion Tampa Bay Rays, who had defeated the Chicago White Sox in the ALDS, were paired with the wild-card ...
Wander Franco hit a leadoff homer in the bottom of the ninth and the AL wild-card-leading Tampa Bay Rays beat the Cleveland Guardians 9-8 after a bullpen meltdown in the top of the inning Friday ...
The Rays started the season 0–6, their worst start in franchise history, but finished the month of April with a record of 15–12, 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 games behind the New York Yankees for first place in the AL East. The Rays became the first team in league history to start the season 0–6 and finish April with a winning record. [29]
The list below documents players and teams that hold particular club records. In twenty-five seasons from 1998 through the end of 2022, the team has an overall record of 1,912 wins and 2,034 losses for a winning percentage of 48.5%. The Rays have appeared in eight postseasons and won two American League pennants, in 2008 and 2020 .
Batoidea is a superorder of cartilaginous fishes, commonly known as rays. They and their close relatives, the sharks, comprise the subclass Elasmobranchii. Rays are the largest group of cartilaginous fishes, with well over 600 species in 26 families. Rays are distinguished by their flattened bodies, enlarged pectoral fins that are fused to the ...
The Tampa Bay Rays are a professional baseball team based in St. Petersburg, Florida. The Rays are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball 's (MLB) American League (AL). Since their inaugural season in 1998, the Rays have played their home games at Tropicana Field. [ 1 ] The team was originally known as the "Tampa Bay Devil ...