July 19
Tampa Tribune
columnist Martin Fennelly
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Maybe this was the start, the real start, that two-run line-drive double to left-center in the first inning against the Yankees on Monday night. The Tampa Bay Rays didn't score in 16 innings Sunday night into Monday morning. Now, three batters in, they were up two. And for a moment, at least, it looked like Longo. That kind of at-bat, the one that made Evan Longoria an All-Star his first three major-league seasons, has been missing this season more than he and the Rays would like, and nearly nonexistent at the Trop. It's the kind of at-bat the Rays will need from Longoria, constantly, down the stretch. There's no margin for error, not like with those Yankees and Red Sox lineups. The Rays"