Ah, baseball.

The Rays looked unimpressive as they lost a series to the lowly New York Mets last week, and I’ll bet I am not the only Rays fan who watched those games and thought, “THIS is a playoff team?”

And when they came into Atlanta to play a Braves team that leads the division in which the Mets are sorry after-thoughts, I was not optimistic about the outcome.

But now they have taken a series from the Braves with one game remaining, and looked pretty sharp, if not dominant, in doing so.

The Rays largely relied on their small ball ways tonight, but the scoring started with a very, very long ball. It was one of those moments that broadcasters…

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