View from the Catwalks: Speeding back into first place

Plus: two teams took no-hitters into the 7th vs the teams in the 2020 WS, but one actually completed it.

Rays News

A wild way to win back the AL East lead:

• Rays nearly no-hit, win on wild walk-off - Adam Berry, MLB.com: A very strange game ends on a high note (especially before the awful extra-inning rules kicked in again).
• Rays get wild win over Red Sox on 9th-inning wild pitch - Marc Topkin, Tampa Bay Times: Michael Wacha and the Rays bullpen went pitch for pitch with the Red Sox no-hit bid, pitching a shutout and giving the Rays a chance to get just enough to win.
• Projecting Franco’s first 10 seasons - Matt Kelly, MLB.com: Looking just a slight bit into the future.
• Rays’ Rich Hill: ‘We don’t want to turn baseball into Jerry Springer’ - Marc Topkin, Tampa Bay Times: The frisking of pitchers and handling of the checking for foreign substances has been an utter mess. Last night we got a new level of embarrassment with the checking of a position player pitching! At least the umps are consistent?
• Notes: Walls to IL as precaution; Castillo’s hat - Adam Berry, MLB.com
• Kevin Kiermaier had the play of the game to save the shutout:

Around the League

• The Rays didn’t get no-hit, but the other team in last years World Series did!