Ray’s innings were so laborious they made Hercules jealous he’d thrown 80 pitches and recorded one out in the fourth inning when the Guardians added on, with a Steven Kwan double allowing two more runners to score.

Here’s the whole thing, if you want to see it, for some reason. Then, after some bad luck (a throw in from Teoscar on a flyout that hit Zunino, Teoscar was-we think unjustly-charged with an error), Ray made another ill-considered decision in attempting to catch the trail runner, throwing the ball away and allowing another runner to score and for the slow-footed Zunino to advance all the way to third, and he’d later score on a sac fly. Ray surrendered three runs in that second inning, and it didn’t have to be three, as after a single and a bunt single, Ray walked Michael Accorsi Zunino to load the bases.

A real collection of barking spiders, you could say. “I just fell into bad counts the whole night,” said Ray. While Ray thought he threw some good sliders, they weren’t tempting the patient Cleveland hitters-just a 20% whiff rate-and while the first inning showed signs of that newly zippy velocity, by the second inning it was down to 92-93 mph, settling right in at his average of 93 mph. The tone was set for his day by a nine-pitch at bat to open the game from Steven Kwan it ended in the unstrikeoutable Kwan somehow collecting another strikeout on his trip to Seattle, but ate into Ray’s count early on a day when he was neither efficient nor effective with his pitches. And they put some really good at-bats on me, too.” One of those nights where I just had trouble finding the top of the zone and really driving the ball through. “Everything up and out of the zone, kind of noncompetitive. “I felt like the fastball was misfiring tonight,” said a matter-of-fact Ray postgame.

He walked five batters, struggling against the patient Cleveland hitters, and struck out just three. Out of the Arizona sunshine, Robbie Ray wasn’t able to recapture his desert aura on a chilly, 45-degree night in Seattle. MULDER: what’s the matter, Scully-no respect for the musical fruit?- NASA April 30, 2021 SCULLY: Mulder, you’re not seriously telling me it’s a bean god killing people in Oceanside, Maryland MULDER: the Aztecs believed in an ancient bean god.

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