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• The Most Beloved Rays: Round 2 voting is open!

  06-07-2020 17:49 via draysbay.com
  
  Who will make it to the sweet 16? Round 2 of voting is here!We are voting our way through the greatest and “most beloved” Rays players of all time in anticipation of the 2020 season, and you can vote for who you think should be moving on to the Sweet 16 below!If you missed our discussion of the results from Round 1, you can find that podcast on Apple, Spotify, or embedded at the bottom of the page!On to the vote!
  Which of these Devil Rays should advance to the next round?— DRay
  
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• Rays Your Voice: Rays sweep Mets, praise be to Skyray

  07-05-2024 18:37 via draysbay.com
  
  Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images Plus a visit from Danny Russell! We are back with a new episode of Rays Your Voice, and we get to talk about a series sweep against the New York Mets! While there was plenty to talk about on the field, we still cannot shut up about how awesome the Rays City Connect uniforms are, and the team agrees. They continue to wear them and are now on a four-game winning streak in the ‘Grit and Glow’ threads.There’s a special appearance from DRB Managin
  
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• Rays: 8, White Sox: 2 - City Connect Streak Continues!

  07-05-2024 03:35 via draysbay.com
  
  Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images DeLuca hits his first Rays HR; Harold Ramirez goes 4-4 IN Rays’ win Rays announced they would bring back the City Connect jerseys for today’s game against the White Sox. Why fix what isn’t broken, right?Flames stay lit, ready to rage. pic.twitter.com/vccqxIq0Cb— Tampa Bay Rays (@RaysBaseball) May 6, 2024
  Tonight's lineup ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/eVK0Po8h0v— Chicago White Sox (@whitesox) May 6, 2024
  Rays were able to get ru
  
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• GDT: The death of the Skyray has been greatly exaggerated

  07-05-2024 00:35 via draysbay.com
  
  Jonathan Dyer-USA TODAY Sports SKYRAYYYYYYYY SKYRAY SKYRAY SKYRAY
  
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• Rays reinstate Josh Lowe, add RHP Edwin Uceta

  06-05-2024 21:00 via draysbay.com
  
  2B Curtis Mead, LHP Jacob Lopez options; Niko Goodrum DFA The Tampa Bay Rays are riding a three-game hot streak in their City Connect jerseys, and will look to keep the good times rolling not only by continuing to wear the jersey’s tonight, but also with five roster moves to keep the team freshOF Josh Lowe reinstated from injured list
  RHP Edwin Uceta added to 40-man roster, promoted
  2B Curtis Mead optioned
  LHP Jacob Lopez optioned
  UTIL Niko Goodrum designated for assignmentLowe’s em
  
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• 2024 Sunburst Awards: New York Mets games 33-35

  05-05-2024 23:41 via draysbay.com
  
  Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images Rays advance to 17-18 after three games series in Tropicana Field. “Sunburst Awards” is a series-by-series evaluation of player performance, where four different awards are given out after each series: Offensive player of the series, defensive player of the series, pitcher of the series, and highlight play of the series. This edition will be covering the 11th series of the season, where the Tampa Bay Rays took on the New York Mets from May third th
  
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• Rays 7, Mets 6: Pepiouch! Rays lose starter early in close-scoring game.

  05-05-2024 23:10 via draysbay.com
  
  Jonathan Dyer-USA TODAY Sports It took ten innings for the Rays to win, but win they did.On Sunday afternoon at the Trop, the Rays were decked out in their City Connect best (even featuring the Sky Ray logo in the score bug! cute!) The Rays were hoping to complete a three-game sweep of the Mets, but a game of back-and-forth leads kept them on their toes.
  Ryan Pepiot took on Luis Severino in the pitching matchup.
  In the top of the first, Starling Marte got a one-out walk, then Francisco Lindor hi
  
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• GDT: SKYRAY

  05-05-2024 19:20 via draysbay.com
  
  SKYRAY SKYRAY
  
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• Rays 3, Mets 1: Shenton works masterful at-bat as Rays win second straight

  05-05-2024 04:53 via draysbay.com
  
  Kim Klement Neitzel-USA TODAY Sports Rays win second straight behind strong pitching and timely patience at plateSaturday night provided a good old-fashioned baseball game backed by strong starting pitching performances and some timely patience at the plate.The Tampa Bay Rays entered Saturday three games under .500 on the year and finished the night only two games under. Zach Littell got the start for the Rays opposite Christian Scott, who made his Major League debut.Littell, donning the City Co
  
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• GDT: Let’s do it again

  05-05-2024 00:45 via draysbay.com
  
  David Banks-USA TODAY Sports CITY CONNECT COME ON, SKYRAY.
  
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• Style It Out With The Brand New City Connect Bobbleheads From FOCO

  04-05-2024 17:00 via draysbay.com
  
  It has been a little while since we last told you about some awesome Tampa Bay Rays products from our good friends at FOCO. As you all know, the Tampa Bay Rays have just unveiled their brand new city connect jerseys for the 2024 season and FOCO has just released some awesome bobbleheads to commemorate the launch of the new uniforms.
  The players included in this launch are Randy Arozarena and Brandon Lowe as well as the infamous mascot of the Rays, Raymond! All three figures are standing in an a
  
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• SkyRays: 10, Mets: 8 - ALL HAIL THE SKYRAY

  04-05-2024 04:23 via draysbay.com
  
  Photo by Mike Carlson/Getty Images Rays offense explodes behind Johnny DeLuca, Yandy Diaz and Randy Arozarena I AM SO HYPED ITS CITY CONNECTS DAY LETS GOOOOO
  Newly called up Johnny DeLuca and Alex Jackson both in the lineup today:IT'S GLOW TIME. pic.twitter.com/4nWwH9OYdT— Tampa Bay Rays (@RaysBaseball) May 3, 2024
  Series in St. Pete. #LGM pic.twitter.com/KFTEQVGXh7— New York Mets (@Mets) May 3, 2024
  Mets scored first after two back to back singles by Jeff McNeil and Tyrone Taylor wi
  
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• GDT: Alright so City Connect is gonna bring the heat

  04-05-2024 00:30 via draysbay.com
  
  Benny Sieu-USA TODAY Sports And by heat, I mean runs and hits and quality baseball HAIL THE SKYRAY
  
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• 2024 Silver Sunburst Awards: April edition VOTING

  02-05-2024 14:00 via draysbay.com
  
  You decide who had the best month of April! “Sunburst Awards” is a series-by-series evaluation of player performance, where four different awards are given out after each series: Offensive player of the series, defensive player of the series, pitcher of the series, and highlight play of the series. This is the first edition of Silver Sunburst Awards in which readers will vote on who had the best month in the four typical categories.
  The Rays finished the month of April with a record
  
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• 2024 Sunburst Awards: Milwaukee Brewers games 30-32

  02-05-2024 00:00 via draysbay.com
  
  Photo by Larry Radloff/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Raysfall to 14-18 after three game series at American Family Field “Sunburst Awards” is a series-by-series evaluation of player performance, where four different awards are given out after each series: Offensive player of the series, defensive player of the series, pitcher of the series, and highlight play of the series. This edition will be covering the tenth series of the season, where the Tampa Bay Rays took on the Milwaukee
  
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• Rays 1 Brewers 7: No fight left for the Rays

  01-05-2024 21:42 via draysbay.com
  
  Photo by Patrick McDermott/Getty Images Rays leave Wisconsin with four runs in three days. The Rays fell to the Brewers on Wednesday 7-0 to fall to 14-18 on the season, dropping the three game series after a game one win.
  Former Rays shortstop Willy Adames shined in the game, with two home runs and four RBI. Brewers starter Colin Rea also had a nice outing, throwing six scoreless innings allowing just four hits.
  Pat Murphy was notably absent from the Brewers dugout in this one, with the manager
  
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• GDT: Remember when Eflin had elite command?

  01-05-2024 18:45 via draysbay.com
  
  John Jones-USA TODAY Sports HAIL SKYRAY
  
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• Tampa Bay Rays Minor League Roundup: Week 5

  01-05-2024 15:31 via draysbay.com
  
  Photo by Nick Cammett/Diamond Images via Getty Images Carson Williams moves to the top of the prospect power rankings Every Monday during the regular season, each minor league team has the day off. This serves as an excellent check point system to check in on how each team and individual prospect is performing. We are now five weeks into the 2024 campaign and some prospects have certainly continued their ascent up the organizational ladder while others are off to less than stellar starts.
  Accord
  
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• Now We Got Bad Blood: Rays 2, Brewers 8

  01-05-2024 05:29 via draysbay.com
  
  Photo by John Fisher/Getty Images Benches clearing was about as close as this lopsided game got.How do you follow all the Euphoria from Monday’s Rays’ City Connect uniform release and slump-busting win? How about a blowout loss that included some spectacular defensive plays, a whirlwind of emotions, bench-clearing, and some punches thrown?No two baseball games are ever the same.The game opened with a competitive tone without indication of what was coming. Freddy Peralta was locked in
  
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• GDT: Rays get an extra-base hit challenge

  01-05-2024 01:20 via draysbay.com
  
  Jeff Hanisch-USA TODAY Sports (Impossible) Go Skyray! All hail Skyray!
  
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• Rays Your Voice: Rays unveil City Connect uniforms

  30-04-2024 21:03 via draysbay.com
  
  Share your thoughts in the comments!The baseball has been less than good this month, so Rays fans definitely deserved a day of unbridled joy. It came on Monday when the team unveiled their long-awaited City Connect uniforms. The uniforms and branding lean heavily into the area’s skateboarding culture and makes great use of those classic Devil Rays colors. On this week’s episode of Rays Your Voice, we put the baseball on the back burner and break down why these new unis might have a
  
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• Rays 1 Brewers 0: Pepiot near perfect, and we needed that

  30-04-2024 04:30 via draysbay.com
  
  Jeff Hanisch-USA TODAY Sports It’s a sign of how poorly the Rays offense has been going that when they loaded the bases in the first inning with no one out (on a hit batter and two walks — Brewers pitcher Bryce Wilson struggled to get anything over the plate) I just assumed they wouldn’t score. They did, but in the most depressing of ways: a double play that got a run in but pretty much killed any chance at a real rally.And...that one run was all the scoring we’d get.The
  
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• GDT: I have spent over $3000 on City Connect apparel today

  30-04-2024 01:25 via draysbay.com
  
  David Banks-USA TODAY Sports The Rays knocked it out of the park (baseball reference) Go Tampa Bay!
  
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• The Rays incredible new logo features the Sunshine Skyway Bridge

  29-04-2024 18:01 via draysbay.com
  
  All hail the SkyRay! There might not be a more recognizable landmark in the Tampa Bay area than the Sunshine Skyway Bridge.The enormous bridge spans the bay between St. Petersburg and Bradenton. When it was completed in 1987, it was one of the largest bridges in the world and to date, it is the longest cable-stayed concrete bridge on the planet. Photo by Sean Rayford/Getty ImagesUnfortunately, it was a horrific tragedy that necessitated its construction.
  The original Skyway bridge was first com
  
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• How skateboarding inspired the Rays City Connect jersey

  29-04-2024 18:01 via draysbay.com
  
  Rays put the SKATE in skateboarding with this new jersey concept. Tampa Bay is widely celebrated for many things — pristine beaches, excellent cigars, Cuban sandwiches — but when the average person thinks of the Tampa Bay area, skateboarding isn’t something that would typically come to mind.And the Tampa Bay rays are here to educate you on that point.
  “What if we used this platform to tell a completely different story?” Rays VP Warren Hypes asked at the City Connec
  
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• Back in Black: The Rays new City Connect jersey is a return to Devil Rays colors

  29-04-2024 18:01 via draysbay.com
  
  A brief history of the men in black. Over the past few years, the Tamp Bay Rays have been celebrating their colorful history. Having been in existence now for over a quarter of a century, the Rays are able to look back on their atrocious, albeit formative, first years with joy and have been paying homage to their past incarnations.
  Following the 2000 season, the team’s original uniforms were haphazardly stuffed in dingy boxes in the darkest corners of the confines of Tropicana Field, the
  
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• Rays City Connect jersey honors “grit and glow” of Tampa Bay

  29-04-2024 18:00 via draysbay.com
  
  The Rays honor Tampa Bay’s culture and history with a nod to the black road jerseys from the team’s debut season with the their skateboarding themed “Grit x Glow” City Connect. If you could tell one story about Tampa Bay, what would it be?
  It would have been easy to default to what a beautiful place it is to live, the beaches and the sun and resort atmosphere that appeals to so many tourists who visit. But the Rays standard jersey concept already encapsulates that bright
  
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• Bitter Sweep Trip to Chicago: Rays 2, White Sox 4

  28-04-2024 23:32 via draysbay.com
  
  David Banks-USA TODAY Sports Tampa Bay Rays fall to three games below .500 after getting swept by Chicago White Sox.After 28 games into the season, one team is not supposed to provide half the wins for another. Yet, that is where we find ourselves after the Chicago White Sox completed the three-game sweep of the Tampa Bay Rays with a 4-2 win for their sixth win in 2024.
  This Rays team is talented but, once again, did not take advantage of opportunities going 0-for-6 with runners in scoring posit
  
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• 2024 Sunburst Awards: Chicago White Sox games 27-29

  28-04-2024 22:30 via draysbay.com
  
  Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports Rays fall to 13-16 after three game series at Guarantee Rate Field. Wow. “Sunburst Awards” is a series-by-series evaluation of player performance, where four different awards are given out after each series: Offensive player of the series, defensive player of the series, pitcher of the series, and highlight play of the series. This edition will be covering the ninth series of the season, where the Tampa Bay Rays took on the Chicago White Sox from Ap
  
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• GDT: Let’s just get this over with

  28-04-2024 19:45 via draysbay.com
  
  Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports You can tell how excited I am about this game! go rasy
  
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