The MLB All-Star Break is over, meaning baseball is back in Tampa Bay!
The Rays are eyeing a bit of revenge to begin the second half of the season. They begin a three game series with the Miami Marlins on Friday.
It’s a series the team dropped to Miami earlier this month.
The Rays sit at 49-47, still very much competitive in their division at 8.5 games back of an American League Wild Card spot.
After visiting the clubhouse this week, Rays’ first baseman Jake Bauers told WFLA’s Annie Sabo that this young team is happy to finish the first half the way they did, but this group is far from satisfied.
“We have a lot of energy, and I think we show up to the park every day and it doesn’t necessarily matter what happened last year, last night, last month…or anything like that,” Bauers said.
“We’re focused on the game that night. I don’t think with what happened in the off-season that anyone expected us to be here, but we are. I think it’s kind of like a ‘why not’ type of situation. In a month or a month and a half when we look back and are still playing good baseball and winning games, we’ll see where we’re at.”
