MONDAY, MARCH 7, 2016 at BOSTON RED SOX LH Matt Moore vs. LH Henry Owens First Pitch: 1:05 p.m. | Location: JetBlue Park at Fenway South, Fort Myers, Fla. | TV: None | Radio: None Game No: 5 (2-2-0) | vs. AL: 2-1-0 | vs. NL: 0-1-0 | Home: 1-1-0 | Road: 1-1-0 Day 15 of Spring Training | 28 Days Until Opening Day—Sunday, April 3 vs. TOR (4:05 p.m.) ENJOYING THE SUNSHINE—Today is BEST RECORD, MLB, at 6:30 p.m., at Charlotte Sports TODAY’S STARTING LINEUP the Rays sixth of 29 games on the Grape- SPRING TRAINING, 2008-16 Park…to purchase tickets, fans 5 Brandon Guyer (R) RF fruit League schedule, and third of 15 road W-L-T Pct. should call (941) 979-8379…for 10 Corey Dickerson (L) DH games…not included is the March 22 Royals 142-104 .577 the seventh consecutive year, 3 Evan Longoria (R) 3B game in Havana, Cuba against the Cuban Angels 141-106 .571 the Rays will be featured at the 7 Logan Morrison (L) 1B National Team…the schedule features two Rays 126-102 .553 event…expected this year are 11 Logan Forsythe (R) 2B split-squad days: March 13 (vs. BOS, at Tigers 138-114 .548 Rays Manager Kevin Cash, his 28 Steve Pearce (R) LF Cardinals 123-102 .547 39 Kevin Kiermaier (L) CF TOR) and April 1 (at ATL, at DET). coaching staff and several players. 13 Brad Miller (L) SS Ê Ê This is the Rays 19th spring in the This Saturday, March 12, prior to 19 Curt Casali (R) C Grapefruit League and eighth calling Charlotte Sports Park home… the Rays-Yankees game at Char- 55 Matt Moore LHP since becoming the Rays in 2008, the team has recorded at least lotte Sports Park, the Rays will 15 wins in seven out of eight spring trainings…they never achieved continue their annual tradition of RAYS IN this in 10 springs as the Devil Rays…the Rays have compiled a shaving their heads as part of the SPRING TRAINING 126-102 (.553) spring record during this span, 3rd best in the majors Pediatric Cancer Foundation’s W-L-T Att. (see chart)…the Rays are three-time Grapefruit League champions “Cut for a Cure”…for the fifth con- 2016 2-3-0 13,204 2015 15-13-2 80,406 (2008, 2010, 2014). secutive year, Rays coaches, play- 2014 16-7-4 78,264 ers and front office staff will shave 2013 15-17-2 90,935 EARLY RETURNS—The Rays offense leads the majors with 21 doubles (5 their heads to pay tribute to chil- 2012 10-16-6 87,916 more than any other team, Arizona-16)…their .312 batting avg. ranks 2nd dren fighting cancer…for a $50 do- 2011 15-14-2 95,859 in the Grapefruit League, a point behind Atlanta…they’ve hit only 2 HR; only nation to PCF, fans can shave their 2010 20-8-2 97,971 four other ML teams have hit so few homers. heads with the Rays and receive 2009 15-16-1 103,255 Ê In their first 5 games, the Rays have committed a major-league-most a special Rays Cut for the Cure 2008 18-8-2 54,960 12 errors (3 more than any other team, Phillies-9)…this has led to cap made by New Era…the caps 2007 10-19-2 79,044 a ML-most 13 unearned runs, representing nearly half of their to- will also be available in the Char- 2006 13-16-1 70,756 2005 13-16 61,261 tal runs allowed (27)…the pitching staff actually leads the Grapefruit lotte Sports Park and Tampa team 2004 11-8 43,916 League with a 2.86 ERA, but they’ve yielded 5.4 runs per game. stores that day for $19.99. 2003 8-19-3 51,324 2002 10-16-1 49,043 RAYS vs. RED SOX—Today is the second of 5 games between the AL East CUBA TRIP FINALIZED—On Tuesday, 2001 12-15-1 57,081 rivals this spring…on Friday here at JetBlue Park, the Rays dropped a 7-2 Major League Baseball and the Major 2000 14-17 67,089 decision in their first road game of the spring…the remaining 3 meetings are League Baseball Players Association an- 1999 14-14-1 59,230 all at Charlotte Sports Park (March 13, March 18, March 30)…last spring, nounced the Rays will officially travel to 1998 12-18 66,781 the Rays went 0-4 against the Red Sox. Cuba to play the Cuban National Team Total 243-260-30 1,308,655 Ê The Rays have gone 10-9 vs. Boston in regular-season play in each on March 22 at Estadio Latinoamericano of the last two years…last year they went 4-5 at home, and 6-4 at in Havana…ESPN and ESPN Deportes BEST RECORD, MLB, Fenway Park…since becoming the Rays in 2008, they’ve only lost will provide live, national coverage of REGULAR SEASON, 2008-15 W-L-T Pct. one season series to Boston (7-12 in 2013) as they’ve compiled a the game, and ESPN’s SportsCenter will Yankees 735-561 .567 78-69 record during that span. have an on-site presence in Havana on Cardinals 728-568 .562 Ê The Rays will play the Red Sox only 3 times in their first 74 games: March 21-22…the Rays will be only the Angels 713-583 .550 April 19-21 at Fenway Park…Boston doesn’t travel to St. Pete un- second major league club in the last 57 Rays 707-590 .545 til June 27-29, the latest in the year they’ve made their first visit to years to play a game in Cuba…most re- Dodgers 705-590 .544 Tropicana Field since 2007 (July 27-29). cently, the Baltimore Orioles defeated the Cuban National Team on March 28, 1999 PLANNING YOUR DAY—Today the Rays clubhouse will be open from by a score of 3-2 in 11 innings, before 50,000 fans at Estadio Latinoameri- 8:15–9:15 a.m. …the bus leaves at 9:15…Kevin Cash will be available in cano…see separate “Baseball in Cuba” packet for more details. the manager’s office at JetBlue Park around 11:00. Ê Media interested in traveling to Cuba for the event must contact John Ê Tomorrow the bus leaves for Lakeland at 7:30 a.m. …the Charlotte Blundell of the MLB Communications Department as soon as pos- Sports Park clubhouse will be open for players staying back from 8:30– sible to receive consideration…email [email protected]. 9:30…Cash will be available in the manager’s office around 11:00. ROLL CALL—All 64 players have reported to camp, consisting of 33 P, 7 TWINS 5, RAYS 4—Yesterday’s loss at Charlotte Sports Park snapped the C, 14 INF and 10 OF…23 are non-roster invites…seven players on the 40- Rays 9-game spring winning streak against the Twins, and was their first man roster joined the organization since the end of the 2015 regular sea- spring loss to them since March 23, 2013…RH Jake Odorizzi exited his son, five of those via trade…19 players on the 40-man roster were acquired second spring start trailing, 4-0, after 1.1 IP (1-H, 4-R, 0-ER, 3-BB, 2-SO, via trade…only six players on the current 40-man roster made their Rays 1-HR)…the lone hit was a grand slam by 1B Byung Ho Park with 2 outs in debut prior to 2013: 3B Evan Longoria, OF Desmond Jennings, RH Alex the 1st, following a fielding error by SS Tim Beckham…LF Desmond Jen- Cobb, OF Brandon Guyer, LH Matt Moore and RH Chris Archer. nings plated RF Jaff Decker with a sac fly for the Rays first run, recording his team-leading 5th RBI…DH Evan Longoria recorded a multi-hit game EIGHT YEARS AS THE RAYS (2008-15)—Since changing their name to including his first double of the spring…the Rays rallied for 3 runs in the 9th, the Rays in 2008, the Rays are 707-590 (.545), fourth-best record in the SS Daniel Robertson, C Hank Conger and 3B Juniel Querecuto each majors after the Yankees (.567), Cardinals (.562) and Angels (.550)…their tallying an RBI…LH Dana Eveland, RH Brad Boxberger, RH Danny Far- four postseason appearances in this span have been equaled by only the quhar, LH Blake Snell and RH Eddie Gamboa all worked scoreless apps. Yankees (5), Tigers (4) and Rangers (4). Ê During this span, the Rays pitching staff leads the American League TEST DRIVE FOR TICKETS—During Crown’s “Rays Up Big Event,” any- with a 3.72 ERA, 10,085 strikeouts, a .240 opp avg. and 108 shut- one test driving a vehicle at any Pinellas County Crown Automotive location outs…their 5,178 runs allowed are the fewest by an AL team over will receive a certificate redeemable for two tickets to a Rays April midweek any eight-year span since the Yankees of 1979-86 (5,173). (Mon–Thu) home game courtesy of Crown Automotive Group…fans can use Ê In the Rays era, Tampa Bay has had 15 different players named to the code provided on their certificate to register at raysbaseball.com/crown the All-Star Team, and none of them had been an All-Star prior to and select their game of choice while supplies last.