Luke Scott News

Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine has called out the Rays' coaching staff a day after the teams were involved in a benches-clearing scrum.

Rays DH Luke Scott is stopped by catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia as benches clear after Scott was hit by a pitch in the ninth.

Middle of 1st: Rays 0, Red Sox 0 : Lester needs just eight pitches to dispatch the Rays.

If you are worried about the Rays ' position in the ALE in May you should probably fly out to Vegas and put a ton of money on the Injuns and the Orioles making the postseason right now.

Tuesday night, the Rays played a game unfamiliar to the tenants of Tropicana Field including lots of hitting, poor defense and shaky starting pitching.

Matt Moore waits for Cody Ross to round the bases on a solo homer in the third inning that puts the Red Sox ahead 3-0. The rookie pitcher also gives up a solo homer to Marlon Byrd in losing his third consecutive decision.

Rays first base coach George Hendrick holds Will Rhymes after he collapsed at first base in the eighth inning.

THE EXPOSITION: Hey, the Red Sox have something going! Boston has won five in a row -- the fourth time already this season the Sox have either won or lost five in a row -- over Cleveland and Seattle to pull back within two of .500. The Sox are 5.5 behind Baltimore and Tampa Bay.

Forget that the Rangers have outscored every team in baseball thus far, and focus on the fact that they've allowed the fewest runs in the American League.

Rays catcher Chris Gimenez checks on Jeff Niemann after the right-hander was struck by a first-inning line drive.

The Orioles stared down yet another heavyweight of the AL East, schooling the Rays with a 4-3 comeback win in the opener of a three-game series.

Luke Scott has almost brought as much bravado to the Rays this season as he has with offensive power.

Despite being off to one of the best starts of his career, Yankee Stadium still proved to be too much for David Price to overcome.

The Tampa Bay Rays were expected to be competing for the AL East lead. The same can't be said about the Baltimore Orioles .

The Rays wasted enough scoring chances during the first two games of this series with the Yankees to make you wonder if they would ever get another hit with a runner in scoring position.

Shields has built on last season's All-Star Game performance. Notably, he authored a 1-0 road win against the Boston Red Sox on April 16, snapping Tampa Bay's season-high, four-game losing streak.

Brandon McCarthy beat an AL East opponent once again, holding Boston to one run over 6 2-/3 innings as the Oakland Athletics defeated the Red Sox 4-2 Wednesday night.

Sean Rodriguez and Luke Scott homered for Tampa Bay, helping Rays right-hander James Shields become the AL's first five-game winner with a 5-4 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Wednesday night.

Nolan Reimold arrived in Baltimore in May of 2009 after blistering through the Orioles minor league system.

The Rays put a wrap on their second-best April in team history Monday. One of the few Rays who hasn't kept pace with the team as a whole, at least not statistically, is LHP Matt Moore .