For all that bitching that Joe Maddon and the Tampa Bay Rays did, you’d think they’d be happy with the fact they swept the Boston Red Sox on Thursday. Instead, Maddon decided to take a cheap shot at the Red Sox visiting clubhouse thus earning a-hole No. 1 status.
Proud of our boys . All the convoluted stuff yesterday, then spending all day in Fenway's diminutive clubhouse made it tough to win a split.
— Joe Maddon (@RaysJoeMaddon) May 2, 2014
The Rays picked up the win in Game 1 of the doubleheader 2-1 while winning the second game 6-5. The first game was not without controversy as the Red Sox saw another replay go against them when there was clear enough visual evidence that Dustin Pedroia was safe with the tying run.
Instead, he was out and the Rays went on to win.
In the second game, Yunel Escobar homered off of Koji Uehara in the 9th and the Red Sox couldn’t push across Shane Victorino to tie in the bottom half against Grant Balfour.
Just one of those days the Red Sox would like to forget about and move forward tonight against the Oakland Athletics.
Game 1 PC/MOBILE/TABLET Link (full game recap)
Game 2 PC/MOBILE/TABLET Link (full game recap)
For more slices of Red Sox goodness, head over to the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, CSN New England, ESPN Boston, NESN, Providence Journal, RedSox.com and WEEI websites.
And if you must check out the enemy news, head over to the Tampa Times and Tampa Tribune websites.
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