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- Updated: August 25, 2016
ST. PETERSBURG — One-run games have not been kind to the Rays this season.
Entering Wednesday night’s action, the Rays had an 8-19 record in one-run games, the worst in the Major Leagues. And they had lost 10 of their previous 11 such games. But all seemed to be forgotten in the afterglow of a 4-3, 11-inning win over the Red Sox at Tropicana Field.
“We’re one better after tonight,” Rays manager Kevin Cash said. “We’ve got to find a way to win those games, there’s no doubt about it. We’re built to play close baseball games, and it was a good one tonight.”
Luke Maile entered the game in the 10th after Bobby Wilson, who started at catcher, stroked his third hit in the ninth and Cash sent in Mikie Mahtook to pinch-run.
Maile brought the No. 9 spot in the lineup its fourth hit of the night when he doubled down the right-field line with two outs in the 11th. After Logan Forsythe followed with a walk, Kevin Kiermaier stepped to the plate.
The speedy center fielder can make things happen with his legs. So when he hit a ball to first baseman Travis Shaw, he sprinted toward the bag.
“I had a 1-1 count right there and I knew [Red Sox pitcher Heath Hembree] was going to throw me a slider or cutter, whatever it …
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