Cole Hamels returned to the mound for the first time since helping the Philadelphia Phillies win the World Series and pitched two scoreless innings in a 9-2 win over Canada on Wednesday. ...more

March 4, 2009

The Tampa Bay area remains the spring training baseball capital of Florida, with the Yankees, Phillies and Blue Jays playing spring home games at Tampa, Clearwater and Dunedin, respectively. ...more

March 4, 2009

In some ways, baseball is the ultimate survivor sport. What other competition has been forced to overcome work stoppages, betting scandals and All-Star ties? ...more

February 28, 2009

As is usually the case when the Tampa Bay Rays play the Boston Red Sox, even in spring training, there's a lot of red in the stands at Charlotte Sports Park today, and hearty cheers greeted Boston's hitters as they stepped to the plate in the top of the first inning. Red Sox stalwarts Jacoby Ellsbury, Jed Lowrie and Kevin Youkilis each got a nice hand from a good chunk of the assembled masses. But when the fourth man in Boston's lineup, Rocco Baldelli, stepped to the plate, everyone cheered. ...more

February 27, 2009

You guys know each other, right? They do now. The Tampa Bay Rays and Boston Red Sox play today, provided traffic lets up and the Boston team bus gets through. What's that? Oh, sorry, our fault: The American League champion Rays play the Red Sox today. ...more

February 27, 2009

The Tampa Bay Rays have sold out their regular-season home opener against the New York Yankees on April 13, the team announced. ...more

February 26, 2009

The addition of free agent designated hitter Pat Burrell has Tampa Bay Rays manager Joe Maddon contemplating a lineup that would drop second baseman Akinori Iwamura out of the lead-off spot. ...more

February 26, 2009

The American League champion Rays opened their Grapefruit League schedule and christened their new spring training digs with a bang Wednesday afternoon. ...more

February 26, 2009

Pleasant low-humidity weather has greeted the Tampa Bay Rays for their Grapefruit League opener today at their new spring training digs. ...more

February 25, 2009

The games that count are still a ways off, but the Rays will take another significant step toward Opening Day as they begin their Grapefruit League schedule this afternoon against the Cincinnati Reds. ...more

February 25, 2009