Wild Card - Rays Rookie Moore Dominates Texas In Alds Opener - Sports - Mlb

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) When Matt Moore travelled straight into Tampa Bay vertisements clubhouse for that initial time a new few weeks ago, catcher Kelly Shoppach recognized who seem to it absolutely was simply with the nameplate covering the small pitcher ersus locker.

And I said, `Who is Matt Moore? I thought most people had an Adam Moore within our system, Shoppach said, laughing. Nobody could forget his brand now.

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Game 1: with TEX

TAM 9, TEX 0 - Final

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Game 2: at TEX

Sat, Oct 01 - 7:07 pm EDT

TV: TNT

Game 3: from TAM

Mon, Oct 03 - 5:07 pm EDT

TV: TBS

*Game 4: at TAM

Tue, Oct late 2003 - TBA

TV: TBS

*Game 5: at TEX

Thu, Oct 06 - TBA

TV: TBS

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Making only his second major league start, the actual 22-year-old first year pitched two-hit baseball Friday plus the improbable opened that playoffs which has a 9-0 victory on the defending AL champions.

Tampa Bay, which in turn needed each and every out of your standard period simply to overcome a nine-game debts to be able to Boston within the last 3 1/2 days and win the wild card , acquired the ultimate rough outdoors minute card intended for the opener from the AL dividing series rematch while in the hard-throwing lefty exactly who ended up being still inside the minor leagues once the Rays started his or her later push.

No pitcher had at any time started off a postseason opener with one simple previous career start off right until that seemingly unfazed Moore needed this mound from Rangers Ballpark under twenty two several hours soon after being informed this individual ended up being pitching inside the playoffs lower than with three months immediately after pitching within the Futures sport during the All-Star break.

They didn big t provide my family a great deal of your respective to obtain nervous as well as thinking about the idea a new lot, Moore said. I didn capital t strive to be beyond them before I was around it. I tested out to become as normal, as normal along with seeing that calm as possible. And it was before a little topic of having comfortable, along with at this time there on it was hurling strikes.

Moore had tossed just nine 1-3 innings while in the majors before, which includes 11 strikeouts around all 5 scoreless innings against the Yankees eight days earlier within their only different start. He was smiling simply by your late innings, and also greeted by hugs and high-fives inside dugout right after his or her past pitch he threw 98 in all, 62 pertaining to strikes.

The Rays invest in a 2-0 head in the best-of-five ALDS along with James Shields with the particular mound Saturday overnight against left-hander Derek Holland . The Tampa Bay right-hander allowed only 1 work with 17 innings though winning over Texas 2 times that season.

Texas, which traveled to it has the initial World Series final season, received your franchise-record 96 online games and done a normal period having a six-game succeeding ability the choices have home-field advantage.

Yet, the actual Rangers in addition to Rays have got picked out upward where they left off of continue postseason, once the touring staff won each and every game in their five-game series. That s the only period this provides ever before happened in the majors.