Posts Tagged ‘tampa bay’
Williams learning from new teammate Jackson
Saturday, May 19th, 2012
TAMPA When his once sure hands began to betray him and his confidence started to evaporate last season, Buccaneers wide receiver Mike Williams had virtually no one but then-position coach Eric Yarber to turn to for help.
Tampa Bay Rays: Centenarian receives surprise gift from Rays; team planning nerd-themed road trip
Saturday, May 19th, 2012By Joe Smith, Times Staff Writer
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Rays vs. Braves
When/where: 1:40 today; Tropicana Field
TV/radio: Sun Sports; 620-AM, 680-AM (Spanish)
Promotions: Kyle Farnsworth bobblehead to first 10,000 kids 14 and under
Probable pitchers
RAYS: LH David Price
(6-2, 3.10)
BRAVES: RH Tim Hudson
(2-1, 3.96)
On Price: Hehas won five of his past six starts, including allowing three runs over seven innings against Toronto last week. He won his only career start against Atlanta in 2010, giving up two earned runs in five innings.
Tampa Bay Rays learn a hard lesson in the necessity of depth
Saturday, May 19th, 2012By Marc Topkin, Times Staff Writer
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Rays executives believe they plan for everything.
But when outfielder Brandon Guyer reported soreness in his shoulder at the start of last week, meaning they would be without their second-, third- and now fourth-string centerfielders, they found themselves pulling essentially an all-nighter to find a replacement.
They looked at four or five players who could handle playing centerfield and ended up making a Wednesday morning deal with the Phillies to get Rich Thompson.
Tampa Bay Lightning’s goalie draft history
Saturday, May 19th, 2012By Damian Cristodero, Times Staff Writer
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Nothing gained
The Lightning has drafted 20 goalies in its history. Here is the list, overall draft position and year, and games played for Tampa Bay:
Player drafted year games played
Derek Wilkinson 145 1992 22
Tyler Moss 29 1993 0
Zac Bierk 212 1995 26
Evgeny Konstantinov 67 1999 2
Michal Lanicek 148 1999 0
Tampa Bay Rays outfielder Rich Thompson finally gets his hit
Saturday, May 19th, 2012By Gary Shelton, Times Sports Columnist
Saturday, May 19, 2012
ST. PETERSBURG
Don't strike out, the kid said to himself. Whatever you do, don't strike out.
After all, this was the first at-bat of his career. And who wants to embarrass himself as he is saying hello? Besides, his team was ahead by 10 runs, and things had turned so ugly that the opponent had a backup catcher on the mound to finish things up. Heroics could wait for another day. Couldn't they?
So young Rich Thompson swung at the first pitch he saw, a fastball, and the ball bounded up the middle …
Cobb, Joyce lead Rays past Atlanta
Saturday, May 19th, 2012Alex Cobb won his first start of the season, Matt Joyce hit a grand slam and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Atlanta Braves 5-2 on Saturday.
Tampa Bay Rays beat Atlanta Braves 5-2
Saturday, May 19th, 2012Times staff
Saturday, May 19, 2012
ST. PETERSBURG — What made Saturday's first start of the season different for Alex Cobb was treating it the same as any other.
He woke up around 10 in his Clearwater house, borrowed one of his buddies' cars for the drive in, stopped at a Subway for lunch (turkey/bacon) and pulled into Lot 10 at Tropicana Field feeling not only that he had been there before, but that he belonged.
Then he went out and showed it, delivering exactly the kind of performance that can make the Rays' loss of Jeff Niemann more tolerable in a 5-2 interleague win over the Braves.
Lack of goalie development one of Tampa Bay Lightning’s big franchise failures
Saturday, May 19th, 2012By Damian Cristodero, Times Staff Writer
Saturday, May 19, 2012
The Lightning's preliminary pursuit of Finnish goaltender Riku Helenius is one of the more fascinating developments of the offseason.
Not because Helenius is the immediate answer to the team's problems in net — as assistant general manager Julien BriseBois said, Helenius is considered a "prospect" — but because it shines a light on one of the Lightning's greatest franchise failures:
It never has developed a goalie — not even a consistently reliable backup.
Tampa Bay Lightning’s Steven Stamkos says sore shoulder feels good after month of rest
Saturday, May 19th, 2012By Damian Cristodero, Times Staff Writer
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Steven Stamkos said he missed playing for Canada at the world championship that wraps up today in Helsinki, Finland, but does not regret the decision to rest and rehabilitate his aching left shoulder.
"It feels good," the Lightning center said of the irritated bursa sac with which he played the last month of the season.
"It was just nice to get that month of rest and relax and make sure it was healthy so it didn't hinder me when it came to training."
Rays' Thompson takes long road back to majors
Saturday, May 19th, 2012Clay Thompson wanted to visit the touch tank in center field, leave his sweet seat in the Tampa Bay Rays family section at Tropicana Field, turn his back on Thursday's game and pet a cownose ray.