the first rookie pitcher in 75 years to start consecutive games ¡ª throwing one inning for the second straight day.¡°It¡¯s pretty much the same as two relief appearances in a row Ivan Rodriguez Jersey ,¡± Stanek said. ¡°I didn¡¯t really notice anything different.¡±Stanek combined with six relievers on a three-hitter in Tampa Bay¡¯s 4-0 victory over Toronto on Tuesday night, which extended the Rays¡® winning streak to four.Tampa Bay has held Toronto to five hits or fewer in seven consecutive meetings, matching the longest streak in the majors since 1920. The Baltimore Orioles did it to the Washington Senators from Sept. 11, 1968, to April 18, 1969, according to STATS.¡°We¡¯re getting outstanding pitching performances,¡± Rays manager Kevin Cash said. ¡°It seems like just about every night we¡¯re in a ballgame because of our pitching and defense.¡±Tampa Bay is 9-2 against the Blue Jays this season. Toronto has lost seven of its past nine.A night after throwing 16 pitches, Stanek allowed Devon Travis¡¯ leadoff double and hit Kendrys Morales with a pitch with one out. Stanek escaped a 10-pitch first inning when Randal Grichuk struck out as Morales was caught stealing second.¡°That was huge for us right there to get the game started off on the right foot,¡± Stanek said.Stanek became the first rookie to start back-to-back games since the St. Louis Cardinals¡¯ Red Munger got one out in a loss to Philadelphia on July 28, 1943, then pitched a complete game victory over the Phillies the following day, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.¡°That¡¯s definitely cool,¡± Stanek said.Stanek became the third pitcher to start consecutive games for the Rays after Sergio Romo against the Los Angeles Angels on May 19 and 20 this year and James Shields on both sides of the All-Star break in 2009.Before Romo, the previous big league pitcher to start consecutive games was Milwaukee¡¯s Zack Grienke, who was ejected after four pitches on July 7, 2012, and started again the next day.Hunter Wood (1-1) pitched two hitless innings, Jalen Beeks worked 2 2/3 innings http://www.rangersfanproshop.com/authentic-matt-moore-jersey , Jose Alvarado got one out, Diego Castillo pitched the seventh and eighth, and Adam Kolarek got the first out in the ninth. Romo entered with runners at the corners and got his 19th save in 26 chances when Grichuk fouled out and Kevin Pillar flied out.Tampa Bay has 12 shutouts this season, two shy of AL-leading Cleveland. Three of the Rays¡¯ shutouts have come against the Blue Jays.¡°They¡¯ve got some good arms, guys have some good breaking balls,¡± Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said.Matt Duffy reached base twice and had one RBI and Tommy Pham had two hits, including a run-scoring triple, before leaving with a sore groin. Cash said Pham will likely sit Wednesday. The Rays are off Thursday.Rookie Ryan Borucki (3-4) allowed two runs and three hits in six innings.Borucki pitched out of a bases-loaded jam in the first, then gave up Mallex Smith¡¯s RBI groundout in the second. Starting with Smith, Borucki retired 15 of 16 before hitting Kevin Kiermaier with a pitch starting the seventh. Pinch-hitter Ji-Man Choi had an RBI double off Jake Petricka, Pham tripled with two outs and came around on Duffy¡¯s single.BACK-TO-BACK BRUISESKiermaier was hit by pitches in two straight trips to the plate, once in the sixth and again in the seventh. He¡¯s the third Rays player this season to be hit twice in the same game.IN A PINCHChoi is 4 for 7 with one homer and five RBI as a pinch hitter this season.TRAINER¡¯S ROOMRays: Tampa Bay recalled RHP Jake Faria from Triple-A Durham and activated C Adam Moore off the restricted list. Moore was unable to join his teammates on the flight to Toronto on Sunday night because of what the team called improper documentation. To make room for Moore on the 40-man roster, the Rays moved INF Daniel Robertson (left thumb) to the 60-day disabled list.Blue Jays: Toronto put RHP Joe Biagini (strained left oblique) on the 10-day DL, retroactive to Saturday, and recalled Petricka from Triple-A Buffalo. ¡­ The Blue Jays recalled OF Dwight Smith Jr., 1B Rowdy Tellez and INF Richard Urena from Buffalo and selected the contract of OF Jonathan Davis from their top farm team.UP NEXTRays RHP Tyler Glasnow (0-2, 3.23) starts Wednesday¡¯s series finale against RHP Aaron Sanchez (3-5, 5.22). Glasnow allowed one run and two hits in a loss to Cleveland last Fridays. Sanchez has an 11.88 ERA in two starts since returning from the DL after missing two months because of a finger injury. Joel Puckett was in the stands at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium on July 4, 1985 Prince Fielder Jersey , for the famous rain-delayed 19-inning game that ended with the New York Mets beating the Braves at 3:53 a.m. followed by postgame fireworks.¡°I had a long history of pulling for terrible teams,¡± he said.Puckett¡¯s contribution to baseball won¡¯t stretch for nearly as long. He composed ¡°The Fix¡± to mark the 100th anniversary of the Chicago Black Sox agreeing to throw the 1919 World Series, a work that premieres Saturday at the Minnesota Opera in St. Paul. The two acts run 2 hours, 15 minutes, including an intermission.With a libretto by Eric Simonson, the opera has a cast that includes tenor Joshua Dennis as Shoeless Joe Jackson, the famous Chicago outfielder, and baritone Kelly Markgraf as Ring Lardner, the renowned writer.¡°He¡¯s just he¡¯s just a wholly different character than I¡¯ve ever done,¡± Dennis said. ¡°Especially as an opera singer who sings a lot of very proper languages, diving into his linguistics and that kind of ¡ª I don¡¯t want to say backwards ¡ª but that kind of uneducated Appalachian linguistics, it¡¯s been a really interesting study for me.¡±The Minnesota Opera has been a leading force for new music, presenting premieres that include ¡°The Grapes of Wrath¡± (2007) by Ricky Ian Gordon and Michael Korie; ¡°Silent Night¡± (2011) and ¡°The Manchurian Candidate¡± (2015) by Kevin Puts and Mark Campbell; ¡°Doubt¡± (2013) by Douglas J. Cuomo and John Patrick Shanley; ¡°The Shining¡± (2016) by Paul Moravec and Campbell (2016); and ¡°Dinner at Eight¡± by William Bolcom and Campbell (2017).Dale Johnson, the Minnesota Opera¡¯s artistic director, decided Puckett would pair well with Simonson, who grew up a Milwaukee Brewers fan. They even share the same birthday, June 27, when Puckett turns 42 and Simsonson 59.Simonson wrote ¡°Lombardi,¡± which had an eight-month Broadway run in 2010-11 Adrian Beltre Jersey , and also ¡°Magic/Bird¡± in 2012 and ¡°Bronx Bombers¡± in 2014, which both lasted less than two months.He was familiar with ¡°Eight Men Out,¡± both Eliot Asinof¡¯s 1963 book and John Sayles¡¯ 1988 film. Jackson and the other seven White Sox players who accepted money from gamblers to lose the 1919 World Series against Cincinnati were acquitted at a criminal trial in August 1921 but were banned from the sport for life the following day by Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the first baseball commissioner.Even though Jackson accepted a $5,000 bribe, he hit .375 in the Series with six RBIs in six games. Jackson had a $6,000 salary from White Sox owner Charles Comiskey, a pay structure that prompts teammate and fellow conspirator Chick Gandil to sing: ¡°Here¡¯s your headline: ¡®Skinflint Comiskey gets pennant at rock bottom prices.'¡±¡°I felt like he made a mistake that he regretted,¡± Simonson said. ¡°And once he made that mistake there was no one there who was going to forgive him or let him correct his mistake, and that¡¯s heartbreaking.¡±Operas about sports are rare but not unprecedented. Daniel Sonenberg¡¯s ¡°The Summer King¡± about Negro Leagues star Josh Gibson, premiered at the Pittsburgh Opera in April 2017 after more than a decade of development.Puckett spent three years working on his first opera, and he has a distinctly American sound with echoes of Aaron Copland and Charles Ives. He enjoyed composing ¡°sort of nefarious, dark¡± music for the gambler characters Arnold Rothstein, Bill ¡°Sleepy¡± Burns and Abe Attell.¡°That kind of New York 1920,¡± he said.Simonson views this as a great tragedy and wants the audience to come away with the same feeling they might when leaving Shakespeare¡¯s ¡°Hamlet,¡± ¡±King Lear¡± or ¡°Macbeth.¡±¡°Our heroes are celebrities that come from anywhere,¡± he said. ¡°They¡¯re not kings. They might be somebody like Shoeless Joe Jackson. And what I want them to feel is that we¡¯re susceptible to the same human frailties that Joe Jackson is. It¡¯s in a sense a cautionary tale: make the right decision. If somebody comes up to you and wants to ask you to conspire against the public to lose the World Series, don¡¯t do it.¡±