The Tampa Bay Rays will test their organizational pitching depth this week.  Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times reported that Jake Odorizzi will be recalled to start game two of Tuesday's day-night doubleheader with the Boston Red Sox. Alex Colome will take Alex Cobb's turn in the rotation on Thursday. Odorizzi will be joined by former roommate Wil Myers who was recalled by Tampa Bay on Sunday and will star ...

Tampa Bay Rays prospect Wil Myers will make his major league debut Tuesday against the Boston Red Sox after being called up late Sunday. Myers was pulled in the third inning of a AAA Durham game and he will wear number 9 according to Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times. To make room on the roster, Ryan Roberts has been optioned to Class AAA Durham (N.C.). Myers, 2012 Minor League Player of the Year, was hitt ...

Tampa Bay Rays right-hander Alex Cobb was hit on the right ear by a line drive off the bat of Kansas City's Eric Hosmer in the fifth inning of Saturday's game. Cobb was taken off the field on a stretcher. The ball left Hosmer's bat at 102.4 mph before striking the pitcher, Sun Sports reported. The sound of the ball striking Cobb, which sounded like a bat hitting a ball, could be heard in the press box This ...

The Boston Red Sox got six solid innings from Alfredo Aceves and Daniel Nava gave the Red Sox all the runs that were needed with a two-run homer in the third inning and Boston beat Tampa Bay 2-1. Aceves (3-1), recalled before the game from Triple-A Pawtucket, went into the start with a 6.57 ERA and allowed one run, four hits and four walks. "Ace gave us a huge lift today," Boston manager John Farrell said. ...

The Tampa Bay Rays rallied from a six-run deficit against the Boston Red Sox, then rallied again down two runs in the 10th inning and eventually lost a heartbreaker 10-8 in 14 innings in the first game of a three-game series at Tropicana Field. The game took 5 hours, 24 minutes to play, making it the second longest game in Rays history. While the game had several dramatic moments the talk after the game was ...

Tampa Bay Rays starter Chris Archer  turned in seven strong innings allowing two hits and one run and Desmond Jennings is a two run homer in the bottom of the seventh to lead Tampa Bay over the Baltimore Orioles 2-1. Joel Peralta  pitched a scoreless eighth inning and Fernando Rodney recorded his 13th save of the season striking out two in the ninth to preserve the win. Archer (1-1) limited the Orioles to M ...

The Tampa Bay Rays drafted high school catcher Nick Ciuffo with the 21st pick in the 2013 MLB Draft in hopes infilling a long-standing void  in the organization. Tampa Bay seemingly able to develop pitching at will have not had success at developing a catcher and that's where Ciuffo comes in. With their second pick in the first round that was compensation for losing B.J. Upton to the Atlanta Braves the Rays ...

Tampa Bay Rays ace David Price is scheduled to throw a bullpen session on Friday his first work off the mound since  landing on the disabled list May 16 according to Roger Mooney of the Tampa Tribune. Price  suffered a triceps strain and was projected to be out until mid to late June. Price was  1-4 with a 5.24 ERA over nine starts this season. Jake Odorizzi and Chris Archer have pitched in his place in the ...

Tampa Bay Rays uber prospect  Wil Myers was named the International League Batter of the Week,  after hitting .423  over the past seven days. Myers collected four home runs, 15 RBI and a 1.038 slugging percentage  and raised his batting average to .280. Myers was the Tampa Bay Rays' key acquisition in an offseason trade which sent James Shields and Wade Davis to Kansas City. Last year he hit 314/.387/.600 w ...

Heading into the weekend series with the Cleveland Indians, the Tampa Bay Rays rotation  continues to evolve and take on a new look. Chris Archer  will be called up to take the place of Alex Cobb who is suffering from a crack along the edge of his fingernail on his middle finger. Cobb's  injury allowed Alex Colome to his major league debut on Thursday and pushed Matt Moore's start up to Cleveland on Friday. ...

Alex Colome (1-0) allowed an unearned run and five hits in 5 2/3 innings. He walked two and struck out seven as the Rays (29-24) won their fifth straight 5-2 and completed a four game sweep of the Miami Marlins in the Citrus Series. Matt Joyce and James Loney homered to back up the young right-hander. Fernando Rodney pitched a scoreless ninth for his 11th save in 16 opportunities. Taking a 3-1 lead into the ...

Kelly Johnson and Yunel Escobar each had an RBI  and Roberto Hernandez turned in his strongest effort of the season pitching into the ninth-inning and leading the Tampa Bay Rays over the Miami Marlins 3-1. Tampa Bay won their fourth game in a row, and the Marlins lost their eighth straight game. Hernandez came into the game having allowed 10 earned runs in six innings in his previous two starts against the ...

The Tampa Bay Rays decided that a proactive approach to handling prospect  Josh Sale was in order and suspended the 2010 first-round draft pick indefinitely  "conduct detrimental to organization," according to Mark Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times. Sale just returned from serving a 50 game suspension for testing positive for PED's and  this suspension comes just a day after joining the roster of the single-A C ...

The Tampa Bay Rays sent right-handed pitcher Jake Odorizzi  back to Triple-A Durham in hopes of bringing some reinforcements to the Rays bullpen. LHP Alex Torres, who was optioned exactly 10 days ago is a possibility. The Rays bullpen has pitched 8 1/3 innings in the past two games and set up man Joel Peralta has appeared in a league-leading 28 games, including his fourth straight last night. "We have to ma ...