Flipping the Citrus Series 🍊
Believe it or not kids (and I may show my age on this one 😬) but the Tampa Bay Devil Rays were once upon a time the laughing stock in Major League Baseball. The Inaugural Season for the Rays of 1998 was the Defending World Championship Season for the Marlins (though I'm sure it felt as an Expansion Year as well following a full blown 🔥 Fire Sale post World Series). Tampa Bay however, suffered a minimum of 91 Losses in EACH of they're first 10 Years! The first time both the Marlins & Rays hooked up was at the Trop on June 22nd of '98. An extra-Inning Game the Marlins won 3-2 in 12. In fact, Florida beat Tampa Bay 12 of the first 15 Meetings between each Club. It wasn't until 2002 when the Marlins finally lost a Season Series to the Devil Rays, but really even through 2007 it was still all Fish at 32-21 against Tampa Bay. 2008 rolls along and the Devil Rays are now only the Rays. Accompanying the name change was a lot of success on the field and the Marlins have n...