BLUE BIRDS hang Crooked Numbers up on the AL Wild Card leading RAYS and just like that...We have a Tie between the TRIBE and the RAYS with the RANGERS now in the Backseat instead of the Rearview Mirror..."WEEKEND BENDERS" TGIF Recap #2 "RAYS don't blow up now" #ALWildCardBiz

The Rays had everything going as they came in one game up on the Tribe and two games up on the Rangers with three games to play. Rays First Baseman Ben Zorbrist and OF Delmon Young both went Solo Shots in innings one and two to give Tampa a "Ray of Hope" early on and things just unraveled after that.  

The Blue Birds after being down 2-0 early to the Rays and Pitcher Jeremy Hellickson put on their Spoiler Hats and went to work. The Rays put up a crooked four in the 4th and a crooked two in the fifth behind prized 2013 Free Agent Pick Up Jose Reyes who scored twice. All that action in those frames allowed Blue Birds Starter R.A. Dickey to go seven strong after early turbulence in the first two frames. Dickey finished going 7 1/3 innings allowing those Two Solo Shots on five hits as he walked one and struck out three as the Blue Birds win 6-3.

Rays Starter Hellickson wasn't as fortunate as one error led to another error and then a total of three errors doomed him and the Rays. He went 4 2/3 innings allowing six runs on six hits as he walked two and struck out five. The Rays pending the outcome of the Rangers and Tribe Games will be tied with the Tribe and a game ahead of the Rangers with just two games to play. AL Wild Card down to the last out in 2013.