Sentence examples for rays player from inspiring English sources

Evan Longoria, the Rays' player representative, said it made little baseball sense for his team to agree to play twice Saturday.

The debate began over the weekend after a Rays player bulldozed a Yankees catcher, fracturing the catcher's wrist, and it flared yesterday into a bench-clearing tussle.

It seemed to be retaliation for an aggressive slide by another Rays player last weekend, and Duncan was ejected as a brawl broke out.

Not a single Rays player has reached double digits in home runs, a failure that only AL teams such as the Kansas City Royals, the Seattle Mariners and, surprisingly, the Texas Rangers can claim.

Thanks to previous comebacks in Boston and with previous teams, their starters had played in a staggering 71 postseason games while facing elimination; only one Rays player had been in even one (shortstop Jason Bartlett in 2006).

Tigers catcher Alex Avila is in a similar predicament, though Avila is younger, more accustomed to long stints behind the plate (he caught 133 games this year to Napoli's 61), and is not coming off a collision with a Rays player who did everything short of drive a forklift into home plate.

That budget, among baseball's lowest at $45 million this year but leveraged brilliantly by the Rays' player-development operation, will not balloon like the Rays' winning percentage.

Rays players understood the move.

Rays players remained on the bench during the 15-minute delay.

Long shots showed standing bullpens and visiting Rays players applauding.

Next up, the Blu-ray player.