Two of Tuesday\u2019s errors happened on potential double play balls: the one bobbled by Richie Palacios that would\u2019ve ended the second inning for Tampa Bay, and the other a botched fielder\u2019s choice as Oliver Dunn missed the bag at second when receiving the throw from Palacios in the fifth.<\/p>\n
Cash argued postgame that the error charged to Palacios should\u2019ve been a hit as the ball hit the second base bag, but it was ruled an error, leading to the first of two three-run innings.<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes, you have to overcome some bad breaks, and we did not tonight,\u201d Cash said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Griffin Jax leaves game with back contusion\u00a0<\/p>\n
Since beginning his transition back to a starting pitcher, Rays right-handed pitcher Griffin Jax has been stellar, allowing three earned runs across 19 innings of work, a 1.42 earned-run average (ERA) overall.<\/p>\n
His last two starts, both of which saw him go five innings, were a much better indicator of his progress, allowing one earned run across that stretch.<\/p>\n
However, he ran into a snag, or rather a snag ran into him, in Tuesday\u2019s loss as Jax was struck in the lower back by a 107.2 MPH line drive off the bat of Leody Taveras.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t know in the moment what it hit, where I was feeling it,\u201d Jax said postgame. \u201cIt happened so fast, and I found myself on the ground. \u2026 It\u2019s one of those things where in the heat of the moment, when adrenaline is surging, you can press through it.\u201d<\/p>\n
While Jax stayed in the game, finishing the second inning, he was pulled from the game, diagnosed with a back contusion and listed as day-to-day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two of Tuesday\u2019s errors happened on potential double play balls: the one bobbled by Richie Palacios that would\u2019ve…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-286566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}