OPENING DAY—MONDAY, APRIL 6, 2015 vs. BALTIMORE ORIOLESRH Chris Archer (10-9, 3.33 in 2014) vs. RH Chris Tillman (13-6, 3.34 in 2014)

OPENING DAY ROSTER—Yesterday afternoon the Rays announced their Opening Day roster as follows…for a complete breakdown of the roster and starting lineup see page 3.

Ê Pitchers (12)—RH Matt Andriese, RH Chris Archer, RH Grant Bal-four, LH Jeff Beliveau, RH Brad Boxberger, RH Ernesto Frieri, RH Steve Geltz, RH Kevin Jepsen, RH Nathan Karns, RH Jake Odorizzi, RH Erasmo Ramirez, RH Kirby Yates.

Ê Catchers (2)—Rene Rivera, Bobby Wilson. Ê Infielders (5)—Tim Beckham, Asdrubal Cabrera, Logan Forsythe,

James Loney, Evan Longoria. Ê Outfielders (6)—David DeJesus, Brandon Guyer, John Jaso, Des-

mond Jennings, Kevin Kiermaier, Steven Souza Jr. Ê Disabled List (6)— RH Alex Cobb (right forearm tendinitis, 15-day),

RH Alex Colome (pneumonia, 15-day retroactive to March 27), INF Nick Franklin (left oblique strain, 15-day), LH Jake McGee (offseason elbow surgery, 15-day), LH Matt Moore (Tommy John surgery, 60-day), LH Drew Smyly (left shoulder tendinitis, 15-day).

OPENING DAY SCHEDULE—A detailed schedule of the day’s events: Ê Media Gate (Gate 4) Opens 10:00 a.m. Ê Parking Lots Open to Fans 11:00 a.m. Ê Clubhouse Opens to Media 11:00 a.m. Ê Kevin Cash Available to Media 11:45 a.m. Ê Gates Open to Fans Noon Ê Rays Batting Practice Noon Ê Orioles Batting Practice 1:00 p.m. Ê Team Introductions 2:40 p.m. Ê National Anthem 2:53 p.m. Ê Don Zimmer Uniform No. 66 Ceremony 2:55 p.m. Ê Ceremonial First Pitch 3:03 p.m. Ê Rays Take the Field 3:08 p.m. Ê First Pitch 3:10 p.m.

OPENING DAY—The Rays open their 18th season today…Tampa Bay is 9-8 in season openers as well as 9-8 in home openers…the Rays are at-tempting to win back-to-back season openers for the first time since 2003-04…it is the sixth straight year the Rays have opened the schedule at home and the 11th time overall…they are 6-4 when they open the season at home…it is the seventh time the Rays have opened vs. the O’s, four more than any other opponent…it’s also the fifth time in the last eight years they have opened against the Birds…Rays are 2-4 in season openers vs. the O’s.

RAYS SEASON OPENERS—Home games in gray:YEAR GAME FINAL WINNER LOSER ATT.1998 Tues., March 31 vs. DET L, 6-11 J. Thompson W. Alvarez 45,3691999 Mon., April 5 at BAL L, 7-10 M. Mussina W. Alvarez 46,6712000 Mon., April 3 at MIN W, 7-0 S. Trachsel B. Radke 43,8302001 Tues., April 3 vs. TOR W, 8-1 A. Lopez S. Parris 41,5462002 Tues., April 2 vs. DET W, 9-5 V. Zambrano J. Acevedo 38,1422003 Mon., March 31 vs. BOS W, 6-4 S. McClung C. Fox 34,3912004 Tues., March 30 vs. NYY (JPN) W, 8-3 V. Zambrano M. Mussina 55,0002005 Mon., April 4 vs. TOR L, 2-5 R. Halladay D. Brazelton 26,0182006 Mon., April 3 at BAL L, 6-9 R. Lopez S. Kazmir 46,9862007 Mon., April 2 at NYY L, 5-9 L. Vizcaino B. Stokes 55,0312008 Mon., March 31 at BAL W, 6-2 J. Shields J. Guthrie 46,8072009 Tues., April 7 at BOS L, 3-5 J. Beckett J. Shields 37,0572010 Tues., April 6 vs. BAL W, 4-3 R. Soriano M. Gonzalez 36,9732011 Fri., April 1 vs. BAL L, 1-4 J. Guthrie D. Price 34,0782012 Fri., April 6 vs. NYY W, 7-6 F. Rodney M. Rivera 34,0782013 Tues., April 2 vs. BAL L, 4-7 J. Hammel J. McGee 34,0782014 Mon., March 31 vs. TOR W, 9-2 D. Price R. Dickey 31,042

RETIRING NO. 66—Today the Rays will retire uniform No. 66 in a pregame ceremony, in honor of the team’s beloved senior advisor Don Zimmer, who passed away June 4, 2014…the number will be posted high above the left-center field wall, where it will join the Rays two other retired numbers: Wade Boggs’ No. 12 (retired in 2000) and Jackie Robinson’s No. 42 (retired by all teams in 1997)…it is the first No. 66 retired in major league history and is believed to be the second highest number ever retired…the White Sox retired Carlton Fisk’s No. 72 in 1997…Zimmer was Robinson’s teammate for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1954-56 (Zim’s first three seasons in the ma-jors) and was a bench coach for the Yankees when Boggs played there in 1996-97…Don spent 11 years with the Rays, his most time with one organi-zation…he was in uniform for 55 major league Opening Days…this will be the first Opening Day without Zim since 1970.

YOUNGEST SKIPPER IN THE MAJORS—Rays first-year Manager Kevin Cash was named the fifth manager in Rays history on Dec 5, 2014…today he is 37 years, 120 days old, making him the youngest manager in Rays history and the youngest major league manager since 2009, when A.J. Hinch pi-loted the Diamondbacks at the age of 34…he is the youngest to manage in the AL since 35-year-old Eric Wedge with Cleveland in 2003…he is also the youngest current manager/head coach among the four major pro sports (MLB, NFL, NHL and NBA)…runner-up is Boston Celtics coach Brad Ste-vens (38)…this will be the fifth time Cash has been in a major league uni-form on Opening Day: as a player with Toronto in 2004 and Boston in 2008, and as bullpen coach with Cleveland in 2013 and 2014.

RAYS MANAGING DEBUTS—Cash is one of six new managers in the majors this season, and one of four who will be making their managing de-buts, joining MIN Paul Molitor, TEX Jeff Bannister and ARI Chip Hale…they join CHC Joe Maddon and HOU A.J. Hinch among those who are in their first seasons with their new clubs…Rays managers have gone 1-3 in their debuts…Lou Pinella won his first game in 2003, a 6-4 walk-off win over the Red Sox, while Larry Rothschild, Hal McRae and Joe Maddon all suffered defeat.

SOLD OUT—Today’s opener officially sold out on Saturday, marking the 10th consecutive sellout of the Rays home opener…the Rays are 52-18 in regular season games since 2008 when playing in front of home crowds of 30,000 or more…tickets remain for Tuesday and Wednesday.

GATES OPEN…WITH PLAYER GREETERS—Stadium gates open at noon with players at the gates greeting fans for the first few minutes, con-tinuing a Tropicana Field tradition…during the remainder of the season, gates open 2 hours before game time on Friday, Saturday and Sunday home games and 1½ hours prior Monday through Thursday.

NATIONAL ANTHEM—Young American actress and singer Cozi Zuehls-dorff (cozy zools-dorf) will perform the national anthem…the 16-year-old is best known for her role as Hazel in “Dolphin Tale” and “Dolphin Tale 2,” both filmed in Clearwater…she began her career in musical theater at the age of eight and has played Dorothy in “The Wizard of Oz,” JoJo in “Seussical the Musical,” Sally Brown in “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown” and Brigitta in “The Sound of Music”…Cozi has also appeared in the TNT medical drama “Monday Mornings” as Trisha Miller.

Ê Pregame ceremonies include a 50-yard Continental U.S.-shaped flag.

CEREMONIAL FIRST PITCH—In marking the 20th anniversary of the year Tampa Bay was awarded a major league franchise, Vincent J. Naimoli, managing general partner of the Devil Rays from 1995 through 2005, will throw out the ceremonial first pitch to first base coach Rocco Baldelli…Naimoli was the man who secured Tampa Bay’s long-awaited MLB fran-chise…taking the torch from a long line of community leaders, Naimoli ac-cepted the challenge of bringing the national pastime to the region begin-ning in 1991…on May 9, 1995, that goal was realized when MLB owners voted unanimously to award Tampa Bay a franchise…Naimoli, 77, was born in Paterson, N.J., and resides in Tampa.

Previous First Pitches at Rays Home Openers Ê 1998 HOFers Ted Williams, Stan Musial, Monte Irvin, Al Lopez Ê 1999 Larry Doby Ê 2000 Wade Boggs Ê 2001 St. Petersburg Mayor David J. Fischer Ê 2002 United States Army General Tommy Franks Ê 2003 Jon Gruden and Rich McKay, Tampa Bay Buccaneers Ê 2004 Winky Wright, World Junior Middleweight Champion Ê 2005 Racing legend Michael Andretti Ê 2006 Al Lopez Jr., Al Lopez III and Al Lopez IV Ê 2007 Governor Charlie Crist Ê 2008 Governor Charlie Crist and Buccaneers great Mike Alstott Ê 2009 Governor Charlie Crist Ê 2010 Admiral Eric Thor Olson, Commander, US Special Ops Ê 2011 Governor Rick Scott Ê 2012 Jim Dundee, son of late boxing legend Angelo Dundee Ê 2013 Rays Senior Advisor Don Zimmer and his son Tom Ê 2014 Col. Scott V. DeThomas, Commander, 6th Air Mobility Wing

First Pitch: 3:10 p.m. | Location: Tropicana Field, St. Petersburg, Fla. | TV: Sun Sports | Radio: WDAE 620 AM, WGES 680 (Spanish)Game No.: 1 (0-0) | Home Game No.: 1 (0-0) | All-Time Game No.: 2,753 (1,272-1,480) | All-Time Home Game No.: 1,376 (702-673)

Upcoming Games Opp. Time TV Rays Starting Pitcher Opp. Starting PitcherTues., April 7 BAL 7:10 p.m. Sun Sports RH Nathan Karns (1-1, 4.50 in 2014) LH Wei-Yin Chen (16-6, 3.54 in 2014)Wed., April 8 BAL 7:10 p.m. Sun Sports RH Jake Odorizzi (11-13, 4.13 in 2014) RH Miguel Gonzalez (10-9, 3.23 in 2014)

**All games broadcast on WDAE 620 AM; Sat and Sun games will be broadcast in Spanish on WGES 680 AM. All times Eastern Standard Time (EST).**

WOOF!—Ajax, the St. Petersburg police dog who was bitten by a rattle-snake while pursuing a suspect earlier this month, will be a guest of the Rays for Opening Day…he will be accompanied by his handler, Officer Jo-seph Lehmann and the officer’s family.

NEW EATS—Centerplate Concessionaire has several new additions at Tropicana Field for 2015, including the addition of local favorite Ricky P’s Orleans Bistro stand in Center Field Street featuring Cajun Creole food…new food items at Tropicana Field include:

Ê Mac Bat–Mac and cheese in a breaded cone Ê Assorted Flatbreads–Chicken pesto, margherita, Thai chicken with

spicy peanut sauce Ê Everglades’ Roadhouse Mac Dog–Half pound all-beef grilled frank

topped with creamy mac n’ cheese, red jalapenos and crispy onion straws

Ê House Smoked Chicken Wings–Tossed in a mango chipotle glaze Ê Ybor City Chicken–Chicken drummettes stewed in a piquant tomato

sauce with chorizo, golden raisins and Spanish olives over yellow rice Ê Miso Roasted Shiitake Steamed Buns–Pickled red cabbage, grilled

scallions, fresh cilantro and Sticky Soy Glaze

OPENING DAY: WHAT’S IT ALL MEAN?—Of the 16 teams who won on Opening Day last season, 10 went on to finish with a winning record and seven went to the postseason…of the 14 teams who lost their opener, only five had a winning record and only three went to the postseason.…in the 17 years since the Rays have been in existence, World Series champions began their season 0-1 ten times.

FAN SAFETY COMES FIRST—Major League Baseball’s stadium opera-tions practices for the 2015 regular season require each club to develop and implement mandatory metal detection screening of all fans prior to en-try to each major league ballpark…the screening program will be in effect at 29 ballparks on Opening Day and full fan screening will be phased in over the course of the first month of the 2015 season…the Commissioner’s Office has postponed the commencement of the program at Wrigley Field in light of the extensive renovations that are underway…fan screening at Tropicana Field will be conducted by means of hand-held metal detection or walk-through magnetometers…random screenings were performed at Tropicana Field last season in preparation for 2015.

ROAD OPENER—The Rays will play their first road game on Friday at MIA, their fourth game of the season…it is the earliest the Rays have ever played an interleague game…in 2014, they played on April 11 at CIN, in their 11th game of the season…the Rays are 3-14 all-time in their road openers.

SPEAKING OF OPENERS—The Rays will also play in a second opener of sorts in 2015 as the opposition for the Toronto Blue Jays in their home opener on Monday, April 13 at Rogers Centre…it will be the 13th time in club history the Rays have been the visiting team for an opponent’s home opener…the Rays are 2-10 in those games…the last time it occured was in 2012, when the Rays lost 12-2 in the Boston Red Sox home opener…the Rays opened the Blue Jays home schedule in 1999 and lost 7-1.

GRAB AN INSIDE PITCH…YOU’LL NEED IT—The Rays free game pro-gram, Inside Pitch, will be a popular item this season, if nothing else for its roster…10 players who were with the Rays for the season finale in 2014 are no longer in the organization: C Jose Molina, SS Yunel Escobar, C Ryan Hanigan, RH Jeremy Hellickson, OF Matt Joyce, OF Wil Myers, RH Joel Peralta, LH Cesar Ramos, UTL Sean Rodriguez and UTL Ben Zobrist.

RULE CHANGES—In February, MLB announced additions to the sport’s pace of game program and a series of modifications to the instant replay system.

Ê The pace of game program will enforce the batter’s box rule, requir-ing that all batters must keep at least one foot in the batter’s box unless one of a group of exceptions occurs.

Ê A second new component to the pace of game program is the ad-dition of timers that will measure non-game action and break time between innings and pitching changes during each major league game…one timer will be installed on or near the outfield scoreboard, and a smaller timer will be installed on the façade behind home plate near the press box…immediately following the third out of each half-inning, the timer will count down from 2:25 for locally televised games and from 2:45 for nationally televised games.

Ê Pitchers will be permitted to throw as many warm-up pitches as they wish prior to the point when 30 seconds remain on the clock; how-ever, pitchers will be deemed to have forfeited any of their traditional

eight warm-up pitches that they are unable to complete prior to the 30-second deadline…exceptions to these rules will be made in a va-riety of circumstances.

Ê Batters will be encouraged to get into the batter’s box with 20 sec-onds remaining on the timer…this is the same time that the broad-casters return from commercial…the pitcher is expected to begin his motion to deliver the pitch as soon as the batter gets into the batter’s box and becomes alert to the pitcher…batters who do not enter the box prior to five seconds remaining on the timer and pitchers who do not begin the motion to deliver the pitch prior to zero seconds remaining on the timer will be deemed to have violated the break timing rules.

Ê These rules will be enforced through a warning and fine system, with discipline resulting for flagrant violators.

Ê Managers may now invoke instant replay from the dugout and will no longer be required to approach the calling umpire to challenge a call…a decision can be communicated verbally or with a hand signal.

Ê Whether a runner left the base early or properly touched a base on a tag-up play will be reviewable.

Ê A manager will retain his challenge after every call that is over-turned…last year, a manager retained his challenge only after the first overturned call.

Ê A manager must use a challenge in order to review whether a play at home plate included a violation of the rule governing home plate collisions…however, in the event that a manager is out of challenges after the start of the 7th inning, the Crew Chief may still choose to review whether there was a violation of the rule.

58 OPENERS AND COUNTING—MLB.com columnist Hal Bodley is in the Tropicana Field press box today for his 58th consecutive opener…his first was April 18, 1958, a night game at Philadelphia’s Connie Mack Stadium, which the Milwaukee Braves won, 4-2 on a 6th-inning grand slam by SS Johnny Logan…RH Bob Buhl was the winning pitcher…24-year-old CF Hank Aaron went 1-for-4.

NEW EMCEE—Today Bobby Millikin works his first regular season game as in-game emcee at Tropicana Field…he will perform a variety of duties including live reads both pre-game and in-game and hosting contests and live promotions displayed on the scoreboard…see separate press release for bio info…Rusty Kath, who spent the past eight seasons in that role, left the Rays to spend more time with his wife and daughter in Minnesota.

CAN’T MAKE IT? BE SURE TO TUNE IN—Today is the first of 150 Rays games televsied by Sun Sports in 2015 with Dewayne Staats and Brian Anderson in the booth…Staats and pre-, post- and in-game host Todd Kalas have been on the Rays TV broadcast crew since the inaugural 1998 season…this is Anderson’s fifth Rays opener.

NINE HOURS OF TV COVERAGE—Sun Sports has nine continuous hours of coverage planned on Opening Day, starting at 1:00 p.m. …a special 90-minute pregame show will be televised live statewide from Tropicana Field, starting at 1:30 p.m. …Staats, Anderson, Kalas, Rich Hollenberg, Orestes Destrade and new on-air additions Emily Austen and Doug Waechter will all play a role…the full schedule:

Ê 1:00 p.m.–Tampa Bay Rays Preseason Special Ê 1:30 p.m.–Rays LIVE! Pregame Show Ê 3:00 p.m.–Opening Day: Baltimore Orioles at Tampa Bay Rays Ê 6:00 p.m.–Rays LIVE! Postgame Show Ê 6:30 p.m.–Inside the Rays: Unlikely Journey (2014) Ê 7:00 p.m.–Inside the Rays: Cooking with Longoria (2014) Ê 7:30 p.m.–Don Zimmer: A Life in Baseball Ê 8:00 p.m.–Orioles at Rays replay (2-hour cut down)

DAVE & ANDY ONE OF FOUR—Andy Freed and Dave Wills return to the Rays radio booth for an 11th season together, and pre- and postgame host Neil Solondz is back for a fourth season…among all 30 major league broadcast teams, only three have a longer tenured radio broadcast duo than Dave and Andy:

Ê Tigers—Dan Dickerson & Jim Price entering 13th season Ê Orioles—Joe Angel & Fred Manfra entering 12th season Ê Giants—Jon Miller & Dave Flemming entering 12th season

EN ESPAÑOL—On the Spanish-language side, Enrique Oliu is entering his 17th season of broadcasting Rays games on the radio and Ricardo Taveras begins his 13th campaign…they can be heard on Genesis 680 AM every day except Sundays when they are carried on WAMA 1550 AM.

BASEBALL NOTESOPENING DAY 25-MAN ROSTER BREAKDOWN—

Ê Rookies (5)—RH Matt Andriese, INF Tim Beckham, RH Steve Geltz, RH Nathan Karns, OF Steven Souza Jr.

Ê Youngest—RH Erasmo Ramirez (24 years, 339 days) Ê Oldest—RH Grant Balfour (37 years, 97 days) Ê Most ML Service Time—OF David DeJesus (10 years, 146 days) Ê Most Service Time, Rays—3B Evan Longoria (6 years, 170 days) Ê Most Opening Days—OF David DeJesus (11th) Ê First Opening Day (8)—RH Matt Andriese, INF Tim Beckham, LH

Jeff Beliveau, RH Brad Boxberger, RH Steve Geltz, RH Nathan Karns, OF Kevin Kiermaier, RH Kirby Yates.

Ê First Opening Day with Rays (15)—RH Matt Andriese, INF Tim Beckham, LH Jeff Beliveau, RH Brad Boxberger, INF Asdrubal Ca-brera, RH Ernesto Frieri, RH Steve Geltz, RH Kevin Jepsen, RH Nathan Karns, OF Kevin Kiermaier, RH Erasmo Ramirez, C Rene Rivera, OF Steven Souza Jr., C Bobby Wilson, RH Kirby Yates.

Ê Making Rays Debut (8)—RH Matt Andriese, INF Asdrubal Cabrera, RH Ernesto Frieri, RH Kevin Jepsen, RH Erasmo Ramirez, C Rene Rivera, OF Steven Souza Jr., C Bobby Wilson.

Ê New to Org. Since End of 2014 (8)—INF Asdrubal Cabrera, RH Er-nesto Frieri, OF John Jaso, RH Kevin Jepsen, RH Erasmo Ramirez, C Rene Rivera, OF Steven Souza Jr., C Bobby Wilson.

Ê Acquired by Trade (15)—RH Matt Andriese, RH Chris Archer, LH Jeff Beliveau, RH Brad Boxberger, OF David DeJesus, INF Logan Forsythe, RH Steve Geltz, OF Brandon Guyer, OF John Jaso, RH Kevin Jepsen, RH Nathan Karns, RH Jake Odorizzi, RH Erasmo Ramirez, C Rene Rivera, OF Steven Souza Jr.

Ê Signed as Free Agent (5)—RH Grant Balfour, INF Asdrubal Cabre-ra, RH Ernesto Frieri, 1B James Loney, C Bobby Wilson.

Ê Drafted by Rays (5)—INF Tim Beckham, OF Desmond Jennings, OF Kevin Kiermaier, 3B Evan Longoria, RH Kirby Yates.

WALKING WOUNDED—The Rays are opening the season with six play-ers on the disabled list, tying 2000 for their largest contingent on Opening Day…in 2000, LH Wilson Alvarez, 3B Vinny Castilla, OF Jose Guillen, RH Bryan Rekar, INF Damian Rolls and LH Tony Saunders all opened the year on the DL.

Ê With starting pitchers Alex Cobb, Drew Smyly, Matt Moore and Alex Colome all shelved for Opening Day, the Rays are missing four starters with a combined major league record of 86-54 (.614).

RAYS vs. ORIOLES—These two teams play 19 times this season, includ-ing 10 at Tropicana Field…they also play five times in spring training…the Rays face the Orioles on Opening Day for the seventh time…they’re 2-4 so far…all-time, the two teams are 148-148…the Rays were 7-12 in 2014 and were held to 3 runs or less 12 times…their 3.26 runs per game offense vs. the Orioles was their lowest mark since 1998 (3.25)…between 2008-10, the Rays were 36-18 vs. the Orioles…in four seasons since, the two teams are 37-37…Rays were 3-6 at home last season, only the second time in the last seven seasons they have had a losing home record vs. the O’s…Rays are 79-70 all-time at home vs. the Birds.

FOLEY THE RAYS ALL-TIME LEADER—Rays bench coach Tom Foley is wearing a Rays uniform for his 14th Opening Day, most in club history…as the Rays new bench coach, it will be his first out of the third base coaching box…it will be his 25th Opening Day overall, including 11 as a player with the Cincinnati Reds (1983-85) and Montreal Expos (1987-92) and Pitts-burgh Pirates (1993-94).

EVAN TRAILS ONLY McGRIFF, FLAHERTY ON OPENING DAY—3B Evan Longoria, who will play in his seventh Opening Day, has batted .348 (8-for-23) on Opening Day, 3rd best in club history (min. 4 G) behind Fred McGriff (.474) and John Flaherty (.353)…he has been the hottest Opening Day hitter in the majors over the past three seasons with a .545 avg. (6-for-11)…Carl Crawford holds the club reocrd for most Opening Day starts (eight).

DEJESUS, HUNTER AND HOLLIDAY—Today ends a streak of 10 Open-ing Day starts for OF David DeJesus…he entered today as one of three outfielders to make that claim, along with Torii Hunter and Matt Holliday.

NON-ROSTER INVITES TO MAKE RAYS OPENING DAY ROSTER—1998 RH Rolando Arrojo2000 RH Dave Eiland, INF Herbert Perry2001 RH Ken Hill2003 OF Rocco Baldelli, LH Jim Parque, RH Steve Parris2005 OF Chris Singleton, RH Hideo Nomo2006 RH Jason Childers, RH Ruddy Lugo, INF Luis Ordaz2007 RH Gary Glover, 1B Carlos Peña, RH Al Reyes2008 INF/OF Eric Hinske2011 RH Juan Cruz2013 1B/OF Shelley Duncan, RH Jamey Wright2015 C Bobby Wilson

OPENING DAY ODDITIES—The Rays will be using their 16th different DH in 18 Opening Days…the Rays have outscored their opponents 17-2 in the 9th inning of Opening Day games including 15-0 when they open at home…Rays have never played an extra-inning game on Opening Day but have won 3 games in the bottom of the 9th inning…the Rays have hit two triples on Opening Day and both were hit by players named by Ben: Grieve in 2001 and Zobrist in 2012…Victor Zambrano is the only Ray with two Opening Day wins…he got one in relief (2002) and one as a starter (2004

in Japan)…he is one of only three pitchers in the last 50 years who have Opening Day wins as a starter and reliever, joining DET Mickey Lolich (1965-66-70-71-72 as a starter and 1978 in relief) and CWS LaMarr Hoyt (1981 in relief and 1984 as a starter)…in their history, the Rays have batted .293 (172-for-588) on Opening Day and averaged 5.8 runs per game (98 runs in 17 games) and have never been shut out…only six teams have lon-ger current streaks without being shut out on Opening Day…the Mets have the longest current streak (52 years).

FAMILIAR FOES—Of the Rays first 28 games, 25 are against the four teams from the American League East…half of the Rays 30 games this spring came against the four AL East teams, meaning of their first 58 spring training and regular season games combined, 40 are vs. the AL East.

WHAT’S IN A NAME?—Tampa Bay officially shed the devil from its name and became the Rays on Nov 8, 2007…in seven years since, they have averaged 90 wins per season, advanced to the postseason four times, won two American League East titles and the 2008 AL pennant…in the 10 previ-ous seasons as the Devil Rays, Tampa Bay averaged 97 losses per sea-son…since the first season in 2008, the Rays have:

Ê Won 90-plus games five times, most in the majors during that span…the Red Sox, Yankees, Phillies, Cardinals and Rangers all have four.

Ê Advanced to the postseason four times; only the Cardinals (five) have been to the postseason more often…the Phillies, Tigers, Yan-kees and Dodgers have all been four times.

Ê Allowed only 4,536 runs, fewest by an AL team over a span of seven full seasons since 1974-80, when the Orioles allowed only 4,271 and the Yankees 4,353.

Ê Won six BBWAA awards, more than any other team over that span: Joe Maddon (AL Manager of the Year in 2008 and 2011), David Price (AL Cy Young in 2012), Evan Longoria (AL Rookie of the Year in 2008), Jeremy Hellickson (AL Rookie of the Year in 2011) and Wil Myers (AL Rookie of the Year in 2013).

Ê Thrown 96 shutouts, most by an AL team over a seven-year span since the 1975-81 Yankees, who also had 96.

Ê Started a pitcher under the age of 30 in 93.5 pct. of their games (1,062 of 1,135).

Ê Had six rookie pitchers win 10-plus games, more than any other major league team…the list includes Jake Odorizzi, Jeff Niemann, Matt Moore, David Price, Wade Davis and Jeremy Hellickson.

RAYS OPENING DAY RECORDSTeam Batting

Ê Most Runs 9 vs. Toronto, 2014 vs. Detroit, 2002

Ê Most Hits 15 vs. New York-AL, 2004 vs. Toronto, 2001

Ê Most Doubles 4 4x, last vs. Baltimore, 2010 Ê Most Triples 1 vs. New York-AL, 2012

vs. Toronto, 2001 Ê Most HR 2 7x, last vs. New York-AL, 2012 Ê Most Walks 8 vs. Toronto, 2014 Ê Most Strikeouts 14 at Boston, 2009 Ê Most SB 3 at Boston, 2009

at New York-AL, 2007

Team Pitching Ê Most Strikeouts 9 vs. Toronto, 2014 Ê Most Walks 7 vs. New York-AL, 2012 Ê Most Hits 18 vs. Detroit, 1998 Ê Most Runs 11 vs. Detroit, 1998 Ê Most Pitches 185 vs. New York-AL, 2012 Ê Most HR 4 at Baltimore, 2006

Individual Batting Ê Most At-Bats 6 Randy Winn, 1999 at BAL Ê Most Runs 3 Tino Martinez, 2004 vs. NYY (Japan)

Chris Gomez, 2002 vs. DET Ê Most Hits 3 11x-last, Wil Myers, 2014 vs. TOR Ê Most Doubles 2 Vinny Castilla, 2001 vs. TOR Ê Most Triples 1 Ben Zobrist, 2012 vs. NYY

Ben Grieve, 2001 vs. TOR Ê Most HR 1 20x-last, Ben Zobrist, 2013 vs. BAL Ê Most RBI 5 Carlos Peña, 2012 vs. NYY Ê Most Walks 3 Ben Zobrist, 2014 vs. TOR Ê Most Strikeouts 4 Matt Joyce, 2012 vs. NYY Ê Most SB 1 13x-last, James Loney, 2014 vs. TOR

Individual Pitching Ê Most Innings 8.0 Albie Lopez, 2001 vs. TOR Ê Most Strikeouts 7 David Price, 2011 vs. BAL

Steve Trachsel, 2000 at MIN Ê Most Hits 9 5x-last, James Shields, 2012 vs. NYY Ê Most Runs 6 4x-last, James Shields, 2012 vs. NYY Ê Most Walks 5 Wilson Alvarez, 1998 vs. DET Ê Most HR 3 James Shields, 2010 vs. BAL

Scott Kazmir, 2006 at BAL Ê Most Pitches 113 Albie Lopez, 2001 vs. TOR

2015 SPRING TRAINING RUNDOWN15 WINS IN SEVEN OF EIGHT SPRINGS—The Rays went 15-13-2 in the Grapefruit League season, the seventh time in eight years they’ve done won at least 15 games since becoming the “Rays” in 2008…they never did so in 10 springs as the Devil Rays…the Rays began the spring 1-5-1—worst mark in the majors through March 10— but went 14-8-1 after that.

Ê Since becoming the Rays in 2008, the club owns the 3rd-best record in the majors in spring training (see chart)…they’ve won three Grape-fruit League titles in this time (2008, 2010, 2014).

Ê The Rays went 9-5-1 on the road…the pitching staff led the majors with a 2.17 ERA (132.2-IP, 32-ER) on the road—81 points better than any other team (Yankees, 2.98)—and a .215 avg.

PITCHING PROPERLY—The Rays pitching staff recorded a 3.12 ERA (268.2-IP, 93-ER), 2nd best in the majors to St. Louis (3.06)…they yielded only 19 HR in 30 games, 3rd fewest in the majors after St. Louis (12) and Boston (17)…their .242 opp avg. was 3rd lowest in the majors.

ABOUT THE OFFENSE—The Rays hit .238 on the spring, 2nd lowest in the majors ahead of the Phillies (.234)…they hit 29 HR, 27 of which came over the last 23 games—they hit just 2 HR in their first 7 games…LF Des-mond Jennings hit .435 (20-for-46), which would’ve ranked 4th in the ma-jors if he had enough PA to qualify.

OWNING THE RUNNING GAME—Rays pitchers and catchers threw out 12 of 26 attempted base stealers (46.2 pct.)—best rate in the Grapefruit League, and 3rd best in the majors…C Curt Casali threw out 5 of 7, tied for the GL lead in caught stealing…meanwhile, Rays baserunners were suc-cessful in 24 of 28 (85.7 pct.) attempts—2nd-best rate in the majors after Miami (86.7 pct.)…CF Kevin Kiermaier’s 5 SB tied for 7th in the majors.

BATTING LEADERS PITCHING LEADERSG: 22, several G: 11, Geltz/RiefenhauserAvg. (min. 40 AB): .435, Jennings GS: 5, severalAB: 55, Loney W: 2, severalR: 10, Forsythe L: 2, Archer/KarnsH: 20, Jennings SV: 1, several2B: 5, Kiermaier ERA (min. 15 IP): 1.69, Archer3B: 2, Kiermaier IP: 23.1, KarnsHR: 3, Longoria/Forsythe BB: 8, severalRBI: 10, Longoria SO: 20, GomesSB: 5, Kiermaier * club record ** tied club record

2015 SPRING INNINGS PLAYED (“A” GAMES)—Acosta (26-C, 6-DH), Araiza (3-C), Beckham (58-2B, 62-SS), Belnome (37-1B), Blair (4-3B, 3-SS), Blanchard (3-2B, 4-3B, 2-DH), Brett (22-2B), Brown (33-LF, 36-CF, 9-RF, 11-DH), Butler (33-LF, 48-RF, 16-DH), Cabrera (11-2B, 81-SS, 5-DH), Carter (2-RF), Casali (73-C), Casilla (51-2B, 17-3B, 4-SS), Coyle (10-2B), DeJesus (29-LF, 27-RF, 20-DH), DePew (1-DH), Dykstra (30-1B, 9-DH), Elmore (3-1B, 23-2B, 33-3B, 28-SS, 12-LF, 15-RF), Field (2-LF, 4-CF), Forsythe (26-1B, 43-2B, 14-3B, 12-DH), Francisco (45-1B, 39-3B, 9-DH), Franklin (23-2B,

28-SS, 12-DH), Gantt (4-RF, 1-LF), Goed-del (10-LF), Gotta (4-LF, 3-RF), Guevara (3-SS, 1-DH), Guyer (8-LF, 20-CF, 28-RF), Harris Jr. (1-RF), Hawkins (1-C), Jaso (40-LF, 66-DH), Jennings (55-LF, 26-CF, 14-DH), Kiermaier (91-CF, 12-DH), Lee (22-SS, 4-DH), Leonard (13-1B), Loney (96-1B, 6-DH), Longoria (103-3B), Law (3-LF), Mahtook (3-LF, 41-CF, 7-RF), Maile (18-C, 13-DH), Milone (2-CF, 14-RF), Mot-ter (2-1B, 11-3B, 14-LF, 25-RF), O’Conner (10-C, 7-DH), Paez (2-RF), Powell (8-LF, 21-CF), Querecuto (9-2B, 5-SS, 1-DH), Reginatto (4-2B, 10-3B, 4-SS), Rickard (3-LF, 6-CF, 5-RF, 1-DH), Rivera (75-C), Robertson (1-3B, 18-SS), Seitzer (8-1B), Shaffer (18-3B), Simon (6-1B, 5-LF), Sole (3-SS), Souza Jr. (6-1B, 18-CF, 69-RF, 13-DH), Velez (11-2B, 10-3B, 6-SS, 17-LF, 3-DH), Wilson (66-C, 9-DH). SPRING TRANSACTIONS—Mar 5 Signed RH Jim Miller to a minor league contract with an invita-

tion to major league spring training.Mar 10 Signed LH Jonny Venters to a minor league contract.Mar 12 Reassigned INF Daniel Robertson and OF Boog Powell to mi-

nor league camp.Mar 15 Optioned RH Jose Dominguez and INF Hak-Ju Lee to the mi-

nor leagues…reassigned RH Dylan Floro, C Luke Maile and LH Robert Zarate to minor league camp.

Mar 16 Optioned INF Ryan Brett, LH Grayson Garvin and C Justin O’Conner to the minor leagues.

Mar 19 Optioned OF Mikie Mahtook and LH Enny Romero to the minor leagues…reassigned INF Vince Belnome to minor league camp.

Mar 20 Optioned RH Burch Smith to the minor leagues.Mar 23 Reassigned 1B Allan Dykstra and UTL Taylor Motter to minor

league camp.Mar 26 Reassigned RH Ronald Belisario, RH Andrew Bellatti, RH

Bryce Stowell and INF/OF Eugenio Velez to minor league camp.Mar 27 Placed RH Alex Colome (pneumonia) on the 15-day DL.Mar 30 Reassigned C Mayo Acosta, OF Corey Brown, OF Joey But-

ler, RH Brandon Gomes, RH Jhan Marinez, RH Jim Miller, LH Jordan Norberto, LH Everett Teaford to minor league camp.

Mar 31 Acquired RH Erasmo Ramirez from the Seattle Mariners in ex-change for LH Mike Montgomery…released INF Alexi Casilla.

Apr 3 Reassigned INF Jake Elmore to the minor leagues.Apr 5 Placed RH Alex Cobb (right forearm tendinitis), INF Nick Frank-

lin (left oblique strain), LH Drew Smyly (left shoulder tendini-tis) on the 15-day DL, retroactive to March 27…placed LH Jake McGee (offseason elbow surgery) on the 15-day DL…placed LH Matt Moore (Tommy John surgery) on the 60-day DL…optioned C Curt Casali and LH C.J. Riefenhauser to Triple-A Durham…selected the contract of C Bobby Wilson…released INF Juan Francisco.

DAY DATE OPPONENT SITE TIME/SCORE W-L WP LP ATTThu March 5 Baltimore Charlotte County L, 2-3 0-1-0 Davies (1-0) Zarate (0-1) 4,884Fri March 6 Minnesota Charlotte County W, 2-1 1-1-0 Norberto (1-0) Achter (0-1) 4,158Sat March 7 @Pittsburgh Bradenton T, 1-1 (10) 1-1-1 — — 8,303Sun March 8 Philadelphia Charlotte County L, 4-5 1-2-1 Slowey (2-0) Archer (0-1) 5,837Mon March 9 @New York Yankees Tampa L, 3-4 1-3-1 Pineda (1-0) Karns (0-1) 9,821Tue March 10 Pittsburgh Charlotte County L, 3-4 1-4-1 Beckman (1-0) Romero (0-1) 3,989 @Boston Fort Myers L, 1-5 1-5-1 Masterson (1-0) Andriese (0-1) 10,156Wed March 11 @Minnesota Lee County W, 5-2 2-5-1 Dominguez (1-0) Thielbar (0-1) 7,454Thu March 12 Toronto Charlotte County W, 10-3 3-5-1 Gomes (1-0) Estrada (0-1) 5,776Fri March 13 @Philadelphia Clearwater L, 1-2 3-6-1 Biddle (1-0) Archer (0-2) 9,338Sat March 14 @Baltimore Sarasota W, 3-2 4-6-1 Karns (1-1) Berry (0-1) 8,219Sun March 15 New York Mets Charlotte County W, 8-4 5-6-1 Andriese (1-1) Colon (0-2) 6,363Mon March 16 OPEN DATE Tue March 17 @Philadelphia Clearwater W, 5-3 6-6-1 Teaford (1-0) Araujo (0-1) 9,572Wed March 18 @Toronto Dunedin W, 9-3 7-6-1 Archer (1-2) Buehrle (1-1) 5,539Thu March 19 Minnesota Charlotte County W, 4-2 8-6-1 Karns (2-1) Nolasco (0-1) 4,418Fri March 20 Toronto Charlotte County L, 5-11 8-7-1 Norris (1-0) Smith (0-1) 5,225Sat March 21 Minnesota Charlotte County W, 4-2 9-7-1 Beliveau (1-0) Achter (0-2) 4,538Sun March 22 @Toronto Dunedin L, 0-3 9-8-1 Osuna (1-0) Teaford (1-1) 5,550Mon March 23 Pittsburgh Charlotte County L, 6-7 9-9-1 LaFromboise (1-0) Boxberger (0-1) 4,169Tue March 24 OPEN DATEWed March 25 @Minnesota Lee County W, 2-1 10-9-1 Riefenhauser (1-0) Thielbar (0-2) 6,164Thu March 26 New York Yankees Charlotte County W, 6-5 11-9-1 Boxberger (1-1) Martin (0-1) 6,148Fri March 27 @Baltimore Sarasota —CANCELLED DUE TO RAIN—Sat March 28 Boston Charlotte County L, 6-9 11-10-1 Wright (3-0) Karns (2-2) 7,030Sun March 29 @Boston Fort Myers L, 2-3 (10) 11-11-1 Todd (1-0) Thompson (0-1) 9,916Mon March 30 Baltimore Charlotte Sports Park T, 6-6 (10) 11-11-2 — — 3,946Tue March 31 Boston Charlotte County L, 8-11 — Couch (1-0) Reavis (0-1) 4,991 @Baltimore Sarasota W, 4-3 12-12-2 Teaford (2-1) Gausman (1-2) 5,305Wed April 1 @New York Yankees Tampa W, 3-0 13-12-2 Norberto (2-0) Whitley (0-1) 9,881Thu April 2 @Philadelphia Clearwater W, 10-1 14-12-2 Archer (2-2) Williams (0-4) 6,376Fri April 3 @Detroit Lakeland W, 11-5 15-12-2 Beliveau (2-0) Alburquerque (0-1) 7,751Sat April 4 Detroit Tropicana Field L, 0-1 15-13-2 Simon (2-2) Ramirez (1-3) 8,934

2015 SPRING TRAINING SCHEDULE

RAYS INSPRING TRAINING

2015 15-13-2 80,4062014 16-7-4 78,2642013 15-17-2 90,9352012 10-16-6 87,9162011 15-14-2 95,8592010 20-8-2 97,9712009 15-16-1 103,2552008 18-8-2 54,9602007 10-19-2 79,0442006 13-16-1 70,7562005 13-16 61,2612004 11-8 43,9162003 8-19-3 51,3242002 10-16-1 49,0432001 12-15-1 57,0812000 14-17 67,0891999 14-14-1 59,2301998 12-18 66,781Total 241-257-30 1,295,451

BEST RECORDS, MLB,SPRING TRAINING, 2008-15Kansas City 141-100 .585LA Angels 139-103 .574Tampa Bay 124-99 .556St. Louis 121-100 .548 Detroit 134-111 .547

OPENING DAY STARTER—RH CHRIS ARCHER (10-9, 3.33 in 2014)YEAR CLUB W-L ERA G GS CG SHO IP H R ER BB SO HR Avg.2013 Durham 5-3 3.96 10 10 0 0 50.0 50 26 22 23 52 6 .251

Tampa Bay 9-7 3.22 23 23 2 2 128.2 107 49 46 38 101 15 .2262014 Tampa Bay 10-9 3.33 32 32 0 0 194.2 177 85 72 72 173 12 .243Career Majors 20-19 3.39 61 59 2 2 352.2 307 151 133 123 310 30 .235

2014 SPLITSvs. RH: .262 (83-317), 7-HRvs. LH: .228 (94-412), 5-HRHome: 5-5, 4.00 ERA (87.2-IP, 39-ER)Road: 5-4, 2.78 ERA (107.0-IP, 33-ER)

ARCHER vs. BALTIMORECAREER—Is 1-2 with a 5.76 ERA (25-IP, 16-ER) in 5 apps (4 starts) against the Orioles…has made 3 starts against the O’s at Tropicana Field, going 1-0 with a 4.41 ERA (16.1-IP, 8-ER).2014—Faced the Orioles twice, lasting only 5 IP in each start…was 0-1 with a 9.00 ERA (10-IP, 10-ER)…allowed 19 hits and the Orioles hit .404 (19-for-47) against him.LAST START—On May 6 vs. BAL, exited trailing 3-2 but received no decision…his line: 5 IP, 7 H, 3 R, 1 BB, 6 SO, 1 HR (Steve Pearce), 100 pit, 62 str.

2015 SPRING GAME LOGGAME DEC ERA IP H R ER BB SO HR HB WP P/K FINAL OPP. LEFT3/8 vs. PHI L-1 4.50 2.0 3 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 37/27 L, 4-5 Slowey down, 1-03/13 @ PHI L-2 5.06 3.1 4 2 2 0 3 1 0 0 50/35 L, 1-2 Rodriguez down, 2-13/18 @ TOR W-1 2.89 4.0 1 0 0 3 3 0 0 1 67/41 W, 9-3 Buehrle up, 3-03/23 vs. PIT -- 1.93 4.2 3 2 0 4 4 0 0 0 78/47 L, 6-7 Burnett up, 2-13/28 vs. BOS -- -- 6.2 3 0 0 2 8 0 -- -- 105/65 -- -- --4/2 @ PHI W-2 1.69 2.0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 27/20 W, 10-1 Williams up, 4-0TOTAL 2-2 1.69 16.0 12 5 3 8 13 1 0 1 -- -- -- --

italics = minor league game

Ê Will be 37 years, 120 days on Opening Day, youngest manager since ARI A.J. Hinch (34) in 2009…is the youngest active manager or head coach in the four major sports—the Celtics’ Brad Stevens is next at 38.

Ê Is the sixth Tampa-born manager in major league history, and second to manage the Rays…joins Hall of Famers Al Lopez and Tony La Russa, Lou Piniella, Dave Miley and John Hart.

Ê Is the fifth manager in Rays history…named to his post Dec 5, one day before his 37th birthday…spent the past two seasons (2013-14) as the Indians bullpen coach under Terry Francona.

Ê Played 12 professional seasons as a catcher, including parts of eight sea-sons in the majors (2002-10)…spent two years (2005-06) in the Rays org., and appeared in 13 major league games in 2005 for Lou Piniella.

#16 KEVIN CASH, MANAGER

Ê OPENING DAY ASSIGNMENT—The 26-year-old will be making his first Opening Day start as he makes his second Opening Day roster…this marks the 13th straight season the Rays Opening Day starter has been age 30 or younger…the only Opening Day starter over age 30 in Rays history was 31-year-old Tanyon Sturtze in 2002…since 2008, the Rays have started a pitcher under the age of 30 in 93.5 pct. of their games (1,062 of 1,135)…it will also be the 13th straight opener by a pitcher who broke into the majors with the Rays, dating back to Sturtze.

Ê The past seven Rays openers were started by either James Shields (2008-10, 2012) or David Price (2011, 2013-14); Archer is the first apart from that pair since Scott Kazmir in 2007.

Ê Was named by Manager Kevin Cash as the Opening Day starter on March 26, replacing the previously named Alex Cobb who developed right forearm tendinitis.

Ê Started Opening Day for Triple-A Durham in 2013, earning an 11-2 win at Norfolk (Orioles)…5 IP, 3 H, 1 R/ER, 1-BB, 5-SO.

Ê SPRING THINGS—Went 2-2 with a 1.69 ERA (16-IP, 3-ER) in 5 of-ficial starts this spring…his last outing was a tune-up Thursday at PHI, when he threw 2 scoreless frames on 27 pitches…stretched out to 105 pitches on March 28 against Red Sox minor leaguers at the Charlotte Sports Complex, throwing 6.2 scoreless innings…he also spent 15 min-utes conversing with Commissioner Rob Manfred, who visited Rays camp on March 26.

Ê OFF THE DIAMOND—Chris created the nonprofit Archway Foundation (archwayfoundation.com ) in his hometown of Clayton, N.C., to invest in the lives of youth in the area…more details are available in his Media Guide bio…on Friday, he attended the annual Bowl for Kids’ Sake fun-draiser at Pin Chasers Midtown in Tampa, an event previously handled by David Price, and the event raised $48,000…during spring training, Chris joined the Rays front office and national nonprofit Good Sports in presenting over $4,800 worth of equipment and apparel to the Charlotte High School baseball team.

Ê 2014 HIGHLIGHTS—In his first full major league season, led the Rays staff with 32 starts and 194.2 IP…made 16 starts allowing 1 ER or fewer, tying James Shields’ club record (2011) and tying SEA Felix Hernandez and KC Danny Duffy for the AL lead.

Ê ROUGH START, STRONG FINISH—In 2014, Archer crafted a 2.77 ERA (149.1-IP, 46-ER) over his last 24 starts, starting May 16…pitched to a 5.16 ERA (45.1-IP, 26-ER) in 8 starts before that.

Ê POWER OUTAGE—In 2014, he set a club record and ranked 5th in the AL with a 0.55 HR/9 IP ratio, with only 12 HR in 194.2 IP…half of those 12 HR came in his final 6 starts, after yielding only 6 HR in his first 26 starts…his .336 opp SLG ranked 6th in the AL and 3rd in club history, behind David Price (.318 in 2012) and Cobb (.325 in 2014).

Ê THE MAGIC NUMBER—In 2014, the Rays went 15-8 when he lasted 6 IP or more, and 2-7 when he failed to do so…since the start of 2013, those marks are 27-9 and 4-15.

Ê CH-CH-CHANGES—Spent time this spring working on his changeup, which accounted for just 5.2 pct. of his total pitches in 2014…his fastball and slider accounted for the rest…according to FanGraphs, he aver-aged 94.6 mph on his fastball in 2014, 3rd hardest among AL qualifiers behind KC Yordano Ventura (97.0) and LAA Garrett Richards (96.3).

Ê NO MARGIN FOR ERROR—In 2014, Chris was involved in four 1-0 games, and went 0-2: April 8 at KC (won, no decision), May 23 vs. BOS (won, no decision), June 3 at MIA (lost) and Sep 26 at CLE (lost).

Ê WALK THIS WAY—Allowed 72 walks in 2014, 6th most in the AL…yielded 21 BB in 32.1 IP in the month of May (6.7 BB/9 IP)…apart from that month, averaged only 2.8 BB/9 IP (162.1-IP, 51-BB).

Ê FACING RIGHTIES—Last season righthanders batted .262 (83-for-317) with 7 HR against him…prior to 2014, he’d held them to a .173 (45-for-260) clip.

Ê ONE YEAR DOWN, SEVEN TO GO—One year ago (April 2, 2014), Ar-cher signed an eight-year contract extension, the first six years (2014-19) guaranteed plus club options for 2020 and 2021…the deal guaran-tees a total of $25.5 million with a maximum value of $43.75 million…it remains the largest guarantee in major league history for a player with less than one year of service time, surpassing the deal teammate Evan Longoria signed in 2008 (6 years, $17.5 million).

“When his changeup is right, it’s right along the lines of a Felix Hernandez type of a changeup where this is a swing-and-miss pitch eight times out of 10. What he really needs to clean up, though, is the command of the fastball. Once he learns to command the fastball …

he can be the best of the bunch—even better than David Price was here. And I know that’s saying a lot, but he certainly has those capabilities.

— Pitching Coach Jim Hickey, last August

TOMORROW’S STARTER—RH NATHAN KARNS (1-1, 4.50 in 2014)YEAR CLUB W-L ERA G GS CG SHO IP H R ER BB SO HR Avg.2013 Harrisburg 10-6 3.26 23 23 3 0 132.2 109 54 48 48 155 14 .224

Washington 0-1 7.50 3 3 0 0 12.0 17 11 10 6 11 5 .3212014 Durham 9-9 5.08 27 27 0 0 145.1 142 89 82 62 153 16 .257

Tampa Bay 1-1 4.50 2 2 0 0 12.0 7 6 6 4 13 3 .163Career Majors 1-2 6.00 5 5 0 0 24.0 24 17 16 10 24 8 .250Career Minors 33-21 3.45 87 81 5 0 449.1 350 191 172 190 515 33 .215

2014 SPLITSvs. RH: .200 (5-25), 3-HRvs. LH: .111 (2-18), 0-HRHome: 0-1, 10.80 ERA (5.0-IP, 6-ER)Road: 1-0, 0.00 ERA (7.0-IP, 0-ER)

KARNS vs. BALTIMORECAREER—Made his major league debut against the Orioles on May 28, 2013 with the Nationals… opposing starter was Kevin Gausman, making his second career major league start…allowed3 runs in 4.1 IP and the Nationals won 9-3…his line: ND, 4.1 IP, 5 H, 3 R, 2 BB, 3 SO, 2 HR (Chris Davis, J.J. Hardy), 85 pit, 50 str.

2015 SPRING GAME LOGGAME DEC ERA IP H R ER BB SO HR HB WP P/K FINAL OPP. LEFT3/5 vs. BAL -- 0.00 2.0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 21/10 L, 2-3 Chen tied, 0-03/9 @ NYY L-1 1.80 3.0 2 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 50/33 L, 3-4 Pineda down, 2-03/14 @ BAL W-1 1.00 4.0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 53/33 W, 3-2 Matusz up, 2-03/19 vs. MIN W-2 2.03 4.1 6 2 2 1 4 0 1 0 65/39 W, 4-2 Nolasco up, 3-23/28 vs. BOS L-2 4.67 4.0 5 6 6 3 3 1 0 1 72/48 L, 6-9 Wright down, 6-5*4/2 @ PHI -- 3.86 5.0 5 1 1 2 8 1 0 0 -- W, 10-1 -- --TOTAL 2-2 3.86 23.1 19 11 10 8 19 2 1 1 -- -- -- --

* relief appearance

Ê LAND OF OPPORTUNITY—Entered spring training as a contender for the fifth spot in the starting rotation…following a number of injuries to starters Alex Cobb, Drew Smyly and Alex Colome, this past week he was assigned by Kevin Cash to start the second game of the season.

Ê RESPECT YOUR ELDERS—Made his first Opening Day roster and will be making just his sixth major league start…the 27-year-old is already the oldest member of the season-opening starting rotation…the only starting pitcher on the 40-man roster older than Karns is Alex Cobb, who is seven weeks his senior…Karns made his pro debut June 20, 2011, more than two years after he was drafted, due to shoulder surgery.

Ê SPRING THINGS—Went 2-2 with a 3.86 ERA (23.1-IP, 10-ER) in 6 of-ficial apps, 5 starts…his last outing came in relief, Thursday at PHI, when he threw 6 strong innings in relief of Chris Archer, who made a final tune-up start…6 of his 9 ER allowed all spring came in his start March 28 vs. BOS…also started March 24 against Orioles minor leagu-ers, throwing 2 innings.

Ê AT HIS BEST—Had his best outing of the spring March 14 in Sarasota, when he exited after 4.0 perfect innings against the Orioles…he threw 53 pitches, 33 strikes…after the game, Manager Kevin Cash said “He kept pumping strikes…a very, very strong outing.”

Ê HIGHLY REGARDED—Enters 2015 rated by Baseball America as the No. 7 prospect in the Rays system and No. 2 pitching prospect behind Alex Colome…the publication also recognized him as Best Curveball in the organization

Ê KARNS, WITH A K—Has struck out 515 batters in 449.1 IP lifetime in the minors (10.3 SO/9 IP) while holding opponents to a .215 avg.

Ê 2014 REVIEW—Made a career-high 30 starts between Triple-A Dur-ham (regular and postseason) and the Rays…in those 30 starts, he allowed 1 ER or fewer 13 times, and yielded 5 ER or more 10 times…

spent most of the season with Durham before making 2 starts for the Rays in September…also recalled for 2 days (May 3-4) after Heath Bell was designated for assignment, but did not pitch.

Ê RAYS DEBUT—Made his Rays debut Sep 12 at TOR and earned his first career victory, 1-0 over J.A. Happ…totaled 7 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 8 SO, becoming the first in franchise history to go 7-plus IP and allow 2 H or fewer in his Rays debut…tied Steve Trachsel (April 3, 2000 at MIN) for the longest scoreless outing in a Rays debut…his 114 pitches were most ever in a Rays debut.

Ê TRYING TO CONTAIN—Has allowed 8 HR in 24 career innings in the majors, including 3 HR in his second start last year (Sep 21 vs. CWS).

Ê UNCLE CHARLIE—In a limited sample of 2 starts last season, 28.8 pct. of his pitches were curveballs (59 of 205), according to FanGraphs…among qualifiers, the only pitcher who threw his curve more frequently was PIT A.J. Burnett (33.1 pct.).

Ê WHERE HE RANKED—In 2014, led all Rays minor leaguers with 153 SO and tied Rochester’s (Twins) Alex Meyer for most among Triple-A pitchers…ranked 2nd in the International League with 9.47 SO/9 IP, tied for 2nd with 27 starts and 3rd with 62 BB.

Ê ROLLER COASTER—Named the Rays Minor League Pitcher of the Month for May and July 2014…his ERA by month for Durham: April 8.20…May 1.39…June 10.55…July 1.62…August 6.19.

Ê THREE-FOR-ONE—The Rays traded away three players for Karns on Feb 13, 2014: C Jose Lobaton and minor leaguers LH Felipe Rivero and OF Drew Vettleson.

RAYS HITTER NOTES#1 TIM BECKHAM, INF Sat: 0-0, 2-BB (def. rep.) Series: -- Stand: -- vs. LH: --Spring: .245/.310/.321, 0-HR, 3-RBI, 2-SB Current Hitting Streak (’14): 2G (.667, 2-3) RISP: -- vs. RH: --

Ê 25-year-old rookie makes his first Opening Day roster…has 145 days of service time, mostly coming last year when he started the season on the major league DL with a torn right ACL, suffered in Dec 2013…went 3-for-7 (.429) in his only career ML action over 5 games (1 start) in Sep 2013.

Ê Spring Training: Tied for the team lead with 22 games, between 2B and SS…hit .355 (11-for-31) in his final 13 games starting March 20. Ê Singled in his first career PA on Sep 19, 2013 vs. TEX…only start was Sep 23 vs. BAL, going 1-for-2 (single, sac fly). Ê Returned to Triple-A Durham from the DL last Aug 12 and hit .258 (16-for-62) in 15 games…hit safely in his first 9 games back.

#13 ASDRUBAL CABRERA, INF Sat: 0-2 Series: -- Stand: -- vs. LH: --Spring: .192/.236/.212, 0-HR, 4-RBI, 0-SB Current Hitting Streak (’14): -- RISP: -- vs. RH: --

Ê 29-year-old makes his eighth straight Opening Day start, sixth straight at SS…started seven openers for Cleveland (2008-14), including 2B in 2008-09. Ê Spring Training: Batted .192 (10-for-52) with only 1 XBH, a double March 31 at BAL…named the starting shortstop by Kevin Cash on March 23. Ê Batted a career-low .241 (133-for-553) with 14 HR and 61 RBI between the Indians and Nationals in 2014…reached at least 14 HR for the fourth

consecutive season, one of two middle infielders to do so (Robinson Cano)…is one of three switch-hitters to do that (Carlos Santana, Carlos Beltran). Ê Is 27 hits away from 1,000 for his career…is 5 runs scored shy of 500. Ê Since 2011, ranks among ML switch-hitter leaders in HR (69, 6th), RBI (285, T-5th), 2B (133, 2nd) and hits (571, 6th).

#7 DAVID DEJESUS, OF Sat: 0-0, BB (PH in 8th) Series: -- Stand: -- vs. LH: --Spring: .243/.349/.514, 2-HR, 8-RBI, 1-SB Current Hitting Streak (’14): 1G (.250, 1-4) RISP: -- vs. RH: --

Ê 35-year-old begins his 13th ML season and makes his 11th Opening Day roster…this marks his first Opening Day roster in which he is not in the starting lineup…started 2005-10 with KC, 2011 with OAK, 2012-13 with CHC and 2014 with TB…was 1 of 3 active outfielders to start on Opening Day from 2005-14 (Torii Hunter, Matt Holliday)…that included 4 starts in CF (2005-08, 2013, 2 in LF (2009, 2014) and 3 in RF (2010-12).

Ê Spring Training: Five of his 9 hits went for extra bases…homered in consecutive games March 31 at BAL and April 2 at PHI…played LF, RF and DH. Ê Appeared in only 83 games in 2014, his fewest since 2003, after spending 64 games on the DL (left hand fracture)…all 65 starts came vs. RHP. Ê Made only 13 starts (10-LF, 3-CF) in the outfield last year, compared to 52 starts at DH…only had 5 career starts at DH before last season.

#11 LOGAN FORSYTHE, INF Sat: 0-2 Series: -- Stand: -- vs. LH: --Spring: .229/.275/.521, 3-HR, 6-RBI, 2-SB Current Hitting Streak (’14): -- RISP: -- vs. RH: --

Ê 28-year-old makes his second Opening Day roster (2014) and first career Opening Day start…began the 2013 and 2012 seasons on the Padres DL. Ê Spring Training: Led the team with 10 runs scored…also tied for the team lead with 3 HR…hit 2 HR on March 17 at PHI, the first Ray with a multi-

homer spring game since Desmond Jennings (3) on April 1, 2012 at BAL…played 1B, 2B, 3B and DH; has never played 1B in the regular season. Ê In 2014, played in a career-high 110 games with 75 starts (58-2B, 2-LF, 1-SS, 1-3B)…made 44 starts vs. LHP and 5 of his 6 HR came vs. LHP…is

a career .271/.337/.423 (98-for-362) hitter with 10 HR vs. LHP compared to .215/.283/.296 (134-for-624) with 8 HR vs. RHP. Ê Started in all nine slots of the batting order last season, one of two players in the majors to do that along with teammate Brandon Guyer.

#5 BRANDON GUYER, OF Sat: 1-2 (PH in 6th) Series: -- Stand: -- vs. LH: --Spring: .400/.419/.567, 1-HR, 6-RBI, 3-SB Current Hitting Streak (’14): 1G (.333, 1-3) RISP: -- vs. RH: --

Ê 29-year-old makes his second consecutive Opening Day roster…last year spent his first full season in the majors (5-game rehab stint with Durham). Ê Spring Training: Appeared in 11 games between all three outfield positions…after the spring opener, did not play until March 18 at TOR due to an

oblique injury…hit a grand slam April 3 at DET off Anibal Sanchez. Ê In 2014, sustained a club-high 11 HBP and led the team with 7 bunt singles…made 60 starts (51-LF, 5-CF, 4-DH), including 42 against left-handed

pitchers…ranked 2nd on the club with a .297 (33-for-111) avg. against lefties, after Ben Zobrist (.340)…started in all nine slots of the batting order.

#28 JOHN JASO, C/OF/DH Sat: 0-2 Series: -- Stand: -- vs. LH: --Spring: .196/.315/.261, 0-HR, 2-RBI, 0-SB Current Hitting Streak (’14): -- RISP: -- vs. RH: --

Ê Makes his 5th straight Opening Day roster…this will be his 4th start (incl. Rays Opening Day catcher in 2011) but first at DH as well as his first batting leadoff…becomes the first DH to hit leadoff on Opening Day since TEX Frank Catalanotto in 2002…is the Rays 16th Opening Day DH in 18 seasons.

Ê Spring Training: Played 39 innings in LF and 66 at DH, his first time in the OF since high school…drew 7 BB, one shy of team leader Jake Elmore. Ê His last two seasons have ended prematurely due to concussion-like symptoms…missed the final 34 games of 2014 and 61 games of 2013. Ê In his career 31 of his 32 HR have come vs. right-handed pitching…last season all of his 79 starts came against RHP. Ê Is the 7th major leaguer in club history to leave the Rays and return…hit .270 with a .372 OBP in 3 seasons with Seattle (2012) and Oakland (2013-14).

#8 DESMOND JENNINGS, OF Sat: 1-2 Series: -- Stand: -- vs. LH: --Spring: .435/.471/.565, 1-HR, 3-RBI, 2-SB Current Hitting Streak (’14): 6G (.321, 9-28) RISP: -- vs. RH: --

Ê Is making his 4th straight Opening Day start, 1st in LF (2012-14 in CF)…his career .500 avg. (6-for-12) on O.D. is T-1st in team history (min. 10 AB). Ê Spring Training: His .435 avg. ranked 5th in the majors among players with as many AB…led the team with 20 hits and .471 OBP. Ê Is 1 of 7 players in the majors with at least 10 HR and 10 SB in each of the last 4 seasons (H. Ramirez, McCutchen, Gordon, Kinsler, Stubbs, Zobrist). Ê In 2014 handled 309 chances without an error, more than any other OF without one…has gone 340 chances since his last error, Sep 6, 2013 at SEA. Ê Has 7 career leadoff homers, tied with Carl Crawford for 2nd in club history and one shy of B.J. Upton’s club record (8).

#39 KEVIN KIERMAIER, OF Sat: 0-2 Series: -- Stand: -- vs. LH: --Spring: .333/.396/.521, 0-HR, 4-RBI, 5-SB Current Hitting Streak (’14): -- RISP: -- vs. RH: --

Ê 24-year-old makes his first career Opening Day roster…is starting in CF and batting 9th. Ê Spring Training: Led club with 5 2B, 2 3B and 5 SB…his 5 SB ranked T-7th in the majors…played exclusively center field. Ê In 2014 led the team with 8 3B, as well as a .450 SLG and .765 OPS (min. 100 games)…appeared in 108 games (89 starts, 47-RF, 32-CF). Ê Despite not being recalled for good until May 28, was named one of three finalists for the Rawling AL Gold Glove Award for right field…selected

to Baseball America’s postseason All-Rookie Team…was the Rays winner of the Heart and Hustle Award by the MLB Players Alumni Association. Ê In Rays history, the only other rookie to achieve his combination of triples (8) and home runs (10) was current 1B coach Rocco Baldelli in 2003.

#21 JAMES LONEY, 1B Sat: 0-2 Series: -- Stand: -- vs. LH: --Spring: .236/.263/.345, 1-HR, 6-RBI, 0-SB Current Hitting Streak (’14): 8G (.300, 9-30) RISP: -- vs. RH: --

Ê Will be making his 8th straight Opening Day start at first base…coming off a career-high 174 hits in 2014…his .294 avg. in two seasons with the club ranks 2nd all-time (min. 1,200 PA) to Carl Crawford (.296)…that mark ranks 6th among major league left-handed hitters (2013-14).

Ê Spring Training: Led the team with 55 AB…had a 3-hit game on April 1 at NYY…only homer came March 18 at TOR. Ê Finished last season riding an 8-game hitting streak, batting .300 (9-for-30) over that span. Ê Led the 2014 Rays in hits and batting avg. and ranked 2nd to Evan Longoria in games (155) and RBI (69)…had a career-high 600 AB. Ê Has averaged 156 games per season over the last 7 years…his 1,095 total games during that span ties for 5th in the majors.

#3 EVAN LONGORIA, 3B Sat: 0-2 Series: -- Stand: -- vs. LH: --Spring: .275/.310/.471, 3-HR, 10-RBI, 0-SB Current Hitting Streak (’14): 1G (.333, 1-3) RISP: -- vs. RH: --

Ê Will be making his 7th straight Opening Day start at 3B…only Carl Crawford has more Opening Day starts in club history (8)…marks his fourth Opening Day start at cleanup (2009, 2013-15)…his 2 Opening Day HR (2010, 2012) are tied for the club record (Gerald Williams, Ben Zobrist).

Ê Is a career .394/.444/.909 (13-for-33) hitter with 5 HR off Chris Tillman…his 5 HR off Tillman are his 2nd-most against any pitcher (Sabathia, 6). Ê Spring Training: Led the team with 10 RBI and tied for the team lead with 3 HR (Logan Forsythe). Ê Started all 162 games in 2014, T-1st in the majors (ATL Freddie Freeman, KC Alcides Escobar)…is active ML leader at 169 consecutive starts, accord-

ing to Elias…today will play in his 243rd straight game, which will be the longest active streak as SF Hunter Pence (383) begins the year on the DL. Ê Led the Rays with 22 HR and 91 RBI last season…is the franchise’s all-time leader in HR (184), RBI (635) and SLG (.494)…is 3 doubles shy of Ben

Zobrist’s club record (229) and 2 extra-base hits shy of Carl Crawford’s mark (424)…is 25 hits shy of 1,000 for his career. Ê Played for the MLB All-Star Team during the Japan Series last November…witnessed the birth of his son, Nash, via FaceTime.

#44 RENE RIVERA, C Sat: 0-2 Series: -- Stand: -- vs. LH: --Spring: .179/.179/.385, 2-HR, 4-RBI, 0-SB Current Hitting Streak (’14): -- RISP: -- vs. RH: --

Ê Makes his 2nd straight Opening Day start at catcher…caught Andrew Cashner in the Padres opener in 2014, when he made his first OD roster at age 30. Ê Spring Training: Four of his 7 hits went for extra bases (2-2B, 2-HR)…only multi-hit game included a 2-run homer on March 14 at BAL. Ê In 2014, posted career highs for the Padres in virtually every category including games (103), hits (74), 2B (18), HR (11), RBI (44) and avg. (.252)…

his .452 SLG as a catcher was 5th among major league backstops (min. 81 games)…threw out 29 attempted base stealers, tops among major league catchers and his 33.3 eraser rate ranked 4th…his catcher’s ERA of 3.10 tied for the best in the majors.

Ê The Rays are his 7th organization…was part of a three-team, 11-player trade with San Diego and Washington, largest in club history.

#20 STEVEN SOUZA JR., OF Sat: 0-2 Series: -- Stand: -- vs. LH: --Spring: .130/.203/.259, 2-HR, 8-RBI, 2-SB Current Hitting Streak (’14): 1G (.250, 1-4) RISP: -- vs. RH: --

Ê 25-year-old makes his first Opening Day roster after making his ML debut in 2014 (21 games with Nationals)…starting in RF and batting 2nd. Ê Spring Training: Ranked T-2nd on the team with 8 RBI…had a 2-run HR as part of a 3 RBI game on March 19 vs. MIN…also ranked 2nd with 54 AB. Ê Named the International League’s MVP and Rookie of the Year in 2014, leading the league in batting avg. (.350), OBP (.432), SLG (.590) and OPS

(1.022)…tied for 6th in the IL in SB (career-high 26) and HR (18) despite playing in only 96 games there. Ê Made a diving catch in LF to end Jordan Zimmermann’s no-hitter Sep 28 vs. MIA…selected by MLB.com as the majors’ Defensive Play of the Year. Ê Acquired from the Nationals on Dec 19, 2014 as part of a three-team, 11-player trade, the largest in club history.

#46 BOBBY WILSON, C Sat: 0-1 Series: -- Stand: -- vs. LH: --Spring: .107/.219/.107, 0-HR, 0-RBI, 0-SB Current Hitting Streak (’14): 1G (.333, 1-3) RISP: -- vs. RH: --

Ê Non-roster invite to spring training was selected to the 40-man roster on Sunday…marks his 4th Opening Day roster (also 2010-12 with Angels)…is the first catcher to make the Rays Opening Day roster after coming to camp as a non-roster invite.

Ê Spring Training: Went 3-for-28, and all 3 hits were singles…threw out 2 of 7 attempted base stealers. Ê Aside from a September stint last year, spent the season with Triple-A Reno (D-backs)…caught a Triple-A best 54.1 pct. of attempted base stealers. Ê Will become the 12th Tampa Bay-area native to play for the Rays…attended Seminole High School and St. Petersburg College.

RAYS BULLPEN NOTES#35 MATT ANDRIESE, RH Last App: -- Saves-Opps: -- vs. LH: --Spring: 1-1-0, 2.21 ERA, 7 G, 5 GS Long Relief App: -- IR-RS: -- vs. RH: --

Ê 25-year-old will be making his major league debut…spent the 2014 season with Durham, leading the team with 11 wins in a career-high 162.1 IP. Ê Spring Training: Ranked 10th in the Grapefruit League in ERA…tied for the team lead with 5 starts (Archer, Karns). Ê Pitched out of the bullpen March 6 vs. MIN and March 20 vs. TOR…over his minor league career, has made 84 starts 10 relief apps…pitched out of

the Durham bullpen three times last season with a 4.50 ERA (12-IP, 6-ER)…five of those 6 ER came in his last relief app on Aug 12 at Rochester.

#50 GRANT BALFOUR, RH Last App: -- Saves-Opps: -- vs. LH: --Spring: 0-0-0, 5.40 ERA, 5 G Long Relief App: -- IR-RS: -- vs. RH: --

Ê Makes his 7th consecutive Opening Day roster (2009-10, 2014-15 with the Rays and 2011-13 with the A’s). Ê Spring Training: Spent 18 days in Australia with his father, David, who passed away after a lengthy battle with pancreatic cancer…to honor Mr. Balfour,

longtime GM of the Sydney Blue Sox (Australian Baseball League), the Rays wore light blue socks March 15 vs. NYM…made his spring debut March 23. Ê Finished the 2014 season with a 4.91 ERA, his highest since 2007, and issued a career-high 41 walks, 4th among major league relievers…removed

from the closer role in July…made 65 apps, his 4th straight season of 60-plus apps…leads all AL pitchers with 448 apps since 2008. Ê Is only 24 days younger than Manager Kevin Cash…both were born in 1977…is the only current Rays player to also play for the Devil Rays (2007).

#38 JEFF BELIVEAU, LH Last App: -- Saves-Opps: -- vs. LH: --Spring: 2-0-0, 2.70 ERA, 8 G Long Relief App: -- IR-RS: -- vs. RH: --

Ê 28-year-old makes his first Opening Day roster…has spent parts of the last three seasons (2012 with Cubs, 2013-14 with Rays) in the majors. Ê Spring Training: Tied for the team lead with a pair of wins (March 21 vs. MIN, April 3 at DET)…allowed 6 runs but 4 were unearned. Ê Combining the Rays and Triple-A Durham last year, held lefties to a .115 avg. (9-for-78)…they were 6-for-41 (.146) against him in the majors. Ê 26 of his 30 apps last season were scoreless…his 2.63 ERA was the 2nd-best among Rays rookie relievers (min. 30 apps) in franchise history. Ê Played for the MLB All-Star Team during the Japan Series last November…pitched in 2 games.

#26 BRAD BOXBERGER, RH Last App: -- Saves-Opps: -- vs. LH: --Spring: 1-1-0, 2.00 ERA, 9 G, 1 GS Long Relief App: -- IR-RS: -- vs. RH: --

Ê 26-year-old makes his first Opening Day roster after one of the best seasons in Rays history by a reliever in 2014. Ê Spring Training: Had a 0.67 WHIP and opponents hit just .133 (4-for-30) off him in 9 IP. Ê Set a club relief record with 104 SO in 2014…struck out 104 of his 247 batters faced (42.1 pct.), the highest rate in AL history by a right-handed

reliever…held opponents to a .155 (34-for-219) avg., 4th-lowest among AL relievers…held opposing lefties to a .107 avg., best in the majors. Ê Between the majors and minors, had 122 SO in 74 IP…began the season in Durham’s bullpen…wasn’t called up for good until May 5.

#43 ERNESTO FRIERI, RH Last App: -- Saves-Opps: -- vs. LH: --Spring: 0-0-0, 3.24 ERA, 8 G Long Relief App: -- IR-RS: -- vs. RH: --

Ê 29-year-old makes his fifth consecutive Opening Day roster…is the first Colombian-born player in Rays history. Ê Spring Training: All 3 runs allowed came on March 20 vs. TOR…allowed a solo homer to Justin Smoak and a 2-run HR to Ryan Goins. Ê Has averaged 11.97 SO/9 IP over parts of six seasons, 5th among actives as a reliever (min. 1,000 BF)…owns a career .206 opp avg., including a

.185 mark against left-handed hitters, 3rd among active right-handed relief pitchers (min. 500 BF). Ê Had a career-high 7.34 ERA (41.2-IP, 34-ER) in 48 apps with LAA and PIT in 2014, highest among any reliever with at least 40 apps, after entering the

season with a career 2.76 ERA…yielded 11 HR, T-3rd-most among ML relievers…since 2011, has allowed 34 HR, most among major league relievers.

#54 STEVE GELTZ, RH Last App: -- Saves-Opps: -- vs. LH: --Spring: 0-0-1, 1.74 ERA, 11 G Long Relief App: -- IR-RS: -- vs. RH: --

Ê 27-year-old makes his first career Opening Day roster…made his Rays debut last year, making 11 apps as a September call-up. Ê Spring Training: His 11 apps tied for the team lead with C.J. Riefenhauser…allowed only 7 H and 0 BB in 10.1 IP. Ê In 2014 struck out 14 of 37 batters faced (37.8 pct.) and posted a .200 opp avg. (6-for-30), but allowed 6 of 8 inherited runners to score. Ê Was signed by Greg Morhardty, the same Angels scout who signed Mike Trout…was undrafted out of the University of Buffalo.

#40 KEVIN JEPSEN, RH Last App: -- Saves-Opps: -- vs. LH: --Spring: 0-0-0, 4.32 ERA, 8 G Long Relief App: -- IR-RS: -- vs. RH: --

Ê 30-year-old makes his seventh consecutive Opening Day roster (2009-14 with the Angels)…acquired by the Rays in December 2014 for Matt Joyce. Ê Spring Training: Started the spring with 4 straight scoreless apps…allowed runs in 3 straight apps from March 23-30. Ê Had career highs in apps (74), IP (65) and SO (75) in 2014…his 2.63 ERA and 1.05 WHIP were the lowest of his career…his 74 apps ranked 4th

in the AL…entered the game in the 7th inning or later in 67 of his 74 apps…allowed 5 runs on Opening Day vs. SEA and had a 1.96 ERA after that. Ê His last major league win was June 27, 2013 at DET, having made 98 apps since then…only three pitchers in AL history made more apps than he

did last season (74) and not earned a win.

#49 KIRBY YATES, RH Last App: -- Saves-Opps: -- vs. LH: --Spring: 0-0-0, 2.45 ERA, 9 G Long Relief App: -- IR-RS: -- vs. RH: --

Ê 28-year-old made his first Opening Day roster…last June he became the first Hawaiian-born player in Rays history. Ê Spring Training: Had 11 SO in 11 IP…seven of his 9 apps were scoreless. Ê Has 461 SO in 352.1 IP during his pro career, a 11.77 SO/9 IP ratio…had 10.50 SO/9 IP in the majors last year, T-2nd among AL rookies (min. 25

apps) with teammate Jeff Beliveau…his 37 apps with the Rays ranked T-9th among AL rookies. Ê Has led Rays minor leaguers in saves in two straight seasons…did so with 16 saves for Durham last year despite his June recall.

March 31, 1998DET 11 | TB 6CF Quinton McCracken2B Miguel Cairo3B Wade Boggs1B Fred McGriffLF Mike KellyDH Paul SorrentoC John FlahertyRF Dave MartinezSS Kevin StockerP Wilson AlvarezAPRIL 5, 1999TB 7 | BAL 10CF Randy WinnRF Dave MartinezDH Jose Canseco1B Fred McGriffC John Flaherty3B Wade BoggsLF Paul Sorrento2B Miguel CairoSS Kevin StockerP Wilson AlvarezAPRIL 3, 2000TB 7 | MIN 0CF Gerald WilliamsRF Dave MartinezDH Jose Canseco1B Fred McGriffLF Greg Vaughn3B Herbert PerryC John FlahertySS Kevin Stocker2B Miguel CairoP Steve TrachselAPRIL 3, 2001TOR 1 | TB 8CF Gerald WilliamsDH Steve CoxLF Greg Vaughn1B Fred McGriffRF Ben Grieve3B Vinny Castilla2B Bobby SmithC John FlahertySS Felix MartinezP Albie LopezAPRIL 2, 2002DET 5 | TB 9LF Jason TynerCF Randy Winn1B Steve CoxDH Greg VaughnC Toby HallRF Ben Grieve3B Bobby Smith2B Brent AbernathySS Chris GomezP Tanyon SturtzeMARCH 31, 2003BOS 4 | TB 6LF Carl CrawfordCF Rocco Baldelli3B Aubrey Huff1B Travis LeeDH Al MartinRF Ben GrieveC Toby Hall2B Brent AbernathySS Rey OrdoñezP Joe Kennedy

MARCH 30, 2004NYY 3 | TB 8LF Carl Crawford3B Damian RollsCF Rocco BaldelliDH Aubrey HuffRF Jose Cruz Jr.1B Tino MartinezSS Julio LugoC Toby Hall2B Rey SanchezP Victor ZambranoAPRIL 4, 2005TOR 5 | TB 2LF Carl CrawfordSS Julio LugoRF Aubrey Huff1B Travis LeeDH Josh Phelps2B Jorge CantuCF Chris SingletonC Toby Hall3B Alex GonzalezP Dewon BrazeltonAPRIL 3, 2006TB 6 | BAL 9SS Julio LugoLF Carl Crawford2B Jorge Cantu3B Aubrey HuffDH Jonny Gomes1B Travis LeeC Toby HallRF Damon HollinsCF Joey GathrightP Scott KazmirAPRIL 2, 2007TB 5 | NYY 9LF Carl CrawfordSS Ben ZobristDH Rocco Baldelli1B Ty WiggintonRF Delmon Young3B Akinori IwamuraC Dioner NavarroCF Elijah Dukes2B B.J. UptonP Scott KazmirMARCH 31, 2008TB 6 | BAL 22B Akinori IwamuraLF Carl Crawford1B Carlos PeñaCF B.J. UptonDH Cliff Floyd3B Willy AybarRF Eric HinskeC Dioner NavarroSS Jason BartlettP James ShieldsAPRIL 7, 2009TB 3 | BOS 52B Akinori IwamuraLF Carl Crawford3B Evan Longoria1B Carlos PeñaDH Pat BurrellCF Matt JoyceC Dioner NavarroRF Gabe GrossSS Jason BartlettP James Shields

APRIL 6, 2010BAL 3 | TB 4SS Jason BartlettLF Carl CrawfordRF Ben Zobrist3B Evan Longoria1B Carlos PeñaCF B.J. UptonDH Pat Burrell2B Sean RodriguezC Dioner NavarroP James ShieldsAPRIL 1, 2011BAL 4 | TB 12B Ben ZobristLF Johnny Damon3B Evan LongoriaDH Manny Ramirez1B Dan JohnsonCF B.J. UptonRF Matt JoyceSS Reid BrignacC John JasoP David PriceAPRIL 6, 2012NYY 6 | TB 7CF Desmond JenningsRF Ben Zobrist3B Evan LongoriaDH Jeff KeppingerSS Sean Rodriguez1B Carlos Peña2B Elliot JohnsonC Jose MolinaLF Matt JoyceP James ShieldsAPRIL 2, 2013BAL 7 | TB 4CF Desmond JenningsRF Sam Fuld2B Ben Zobrist3B Evan LongoriaLF Matt JoyceSS Yunel Escobar1B James LoneyC Jose MolinaDH Kelly JohnsonP David PriceMARCH 31, 2014TOR 2 | TB 9LF David DeJesusRF Wil Myers2B Ben Zobrist3B Evan Longoria1B James LoneyCF Desmond JenningsDH Matt JoyceC Jose MolinaSS Yunel EscobarP David Price

March 31, 1998 (H): Detroit 11, Tampa Bay 6Wilson Alvarez threw the first pitch in Rays history (a ball to DET Brian Hunter) and retired the side in order in the first in-ning. However, 9 of the next 13 Tigers batters reached base safely and the Rays fell behind 11-0 by the fifth inning before Wade Boggs hit a 2-run homer off Justin Thompson in the 6th to account for the first two runs in Rays history. Tampa Bay ral-lied for four runs in the 9th inning but ended the game with the bases loaded.

April 5, 1999 (R): Baltimore 10, Tampa Bay 7The Rays got home runs from Jose Canseco and John Fla-herty and three hits from Fred McGriff, but left 12 men on base and fell to the Orioles, 10-7, at Camden Yards. Albert Belle and Brady Anderson hit 3rd-inning home runs off Rays starter and loser Wilson Alvarez. Wade Boggs had two hits in his last Open-ing Day game.

April 3, 2000 (R): Tampa Bay 7, Minnesota 0Gerald Williams hit the first pitch of the season for a home run off Brad Radke as the Rays recorded their first-ever Opening Day win at the Metrodome. Steve Trachsel (7.0-IP, 5-H, 0-BB, 7-SO) got his first AL win and Fred McGriff hit a grand slam, the Rays first on Opening Day.

April 3, 2001 (H): Tampa Bay 8, Toronto 1Albie Lopez worked 8 strong innings (7-H, 1-ER, 3-BB, 6-SO) in the longest outing ever by a Rays starter on Opening Day as Tampa Bay defeated Toronto, 8-1. Every Ray who came to bat got a hit including Randy Winn who hit a pinch-hit home run in the 8th inning off Kelvim Escobar, the Rays first on Opening Day. Steve Cox had 3 hits, Vinny Castilla a pair of doubles and Gerald Williams added a home run.

April 2, 2002 (H): Tampa Bay 9, Detroit 5The Rays trailed 5-3 in the 6th before Steve Cox’s bases-load-ed single tied it and Greg Vaughn’s RBI single in the 8th put the Rays ahead to stay. Bobby Smith added a key bases-loaded double later in the Rays 4-run inning. Chris Gomez had three hits for the Rays. Victor Zambrano earned the first of his two Opening Day wins, this one with only 0.2 innings of relief.

March 31, 2003 (H): Tampa Bay 6, Boston 4Carl Crawford’s two-out, two-strike, three-run walk-off home run off Chad Fox in the 9th inning gave the Rays a 6-4 win. It was just the 8th walk-off home run on Opening Day in AL history. Seth McClung got the win in his major league debut. The Rays trailed 4-0 entering the 7th and 4-1 into the 9th. Terry Shumpert became the 3rd Ray to homer in his first at-bat, a two-run pinch-hit home run in the 9th that brought the Rays to within 4-3. March 30, 2004: Tampa Bay 8, New York 3(at the Tokyo Dome)In a game that started at 5 a.m. in the U.S., the Rays opened the major league season in Tokyo, Japan, and defeated the Yankees 8-3. Tino Martinez singled, doubled and homered for the Rays and Jose Cruz homered. The Rays went ahead for good in the 6th inning on back-to-back doubles by Martinez and Julio Lugo. Victor Zambrano allowed a two-run homer to Ja-son Giambi in the first, but Zambrano, Lance Carter and Danys Baez held the Yankees to four hits and one run over the final eight innings before a crowd of 55,000. April 4, 2005 (H): Toronto 5, Tampa Bay 2The Rays Opening Day win streak was stopped at five as the Rays fell to Toronto, 5-2. Rays starter Dewon Brazelton allowed only three hits in seven innings, but they came consecutively in the 4th inning including a double by Frank Catalanotto and home runs by Orlando Hudson and Vernon Wells. The Rays out-hit the Jays 10-7, but Toronto had 5 extra base hits, the Rays none.

April 3, 2006 (R): Baltimore 9, Tampa Bay 622-year-old Scott Kazmir became the youngest Opening Day starting pitcher since Dwight Gooden in 1986, but in four innings of work he allowed home runs to Luis Matos, Miguel Tejada, and Melvin Mora and took the loss. The Rays used three short-stops in the game as Julio Lugo (abdominal muscle) and Luis Ordaz (knee) were both injured. The Rays led 4-3 in the 5th before Matos and Mora hit back-to-back home runs to lead off the inning. Jonny Gomes hit a 439-foot home run off Rodrigo Lopez, the Rays longest HR of the season.

Catcher (5)Toby Hall 5John Flaherty 4Dioner Navarro 4Jose Molina 3John Jaso 1First Base (8)Fred McGriff 4Carlos Peña 4Travis Lee 3James Loney 2Steve Cox 1Dan Johnson 1Tino Martinez 1Ty Wigginton 1Second Base (10)Miguel Cairo 3Ben Zobrist 3Brent Abernathy 2Jorge Cantu 2Akinori Iwamura 2Elliot Johnson 1Sean Rodriguez 1Rey Sanchez 1Bobby Smith 1B.J. Upton 1Third Base (10)Evan Longoria 6Wade Boggs 2Aubrey Huff 2Willy Aybar 1Vinny Castilla 1Alex Gonzalez 1Akinori Iwamura 1Herbert Perry 1Damian Rolls 1Bobby Smith 1Shortstop (10)Jason Bartlett 3Julio Lugo 3Kevin Stocker 3Yunel Escobar 2Reid Brignac 1Chris Gomez 1Felix Martinez 1Rey Ordoñez 1Sean Rodriguez 1Ben Zobrist 1Left Field (8)Carl Crawford 8Matt Joyce 2Greg Vaughn 2Johnny Damon 1David DeJesus 1Mike Kelly 1Paul Sorrento 1Jason Tyner 1Center Field (10)Desmond Jennings 3B.J. Upton 3Rocco Baldelli 2Gerald Williams 2Randy Winn 2Elijah Dukes 1Joey Gathright 1Matt Joyce 1Quinton McCracken 1Chris Singleton 1Right Field (12)Ben Grieve 3Dave Martinez 3Ben Zobrist 2Jose Cruz Jr. 1Sam Fuld 1Gabe Gross 1Eric Hinske 1Damon Hollins 1Aubrey Huff 1Matt Joyce 1Wil Myers 1Delmon Young 1Designated Hitter (15)Pat Burrell 2Jose Canseco 2Rocco Baldelli 1Steve Cox 1Cliff Floyd 1Jonny Gomes 1Aubrey Huff 1Kelly Johnson 1Matt Joyce 1Jeff Keppinger 1Al Martin 1Josh Phelps 1Manny Ramirez 1Paul Sorrento 1Greg Vaughn 1Starting Pitcher (10)James Shields 4David Price 3Wilson Alvarez 2Scott Kazmir 2Dewon Brazelton 1Joe Kennedy 1Albie Lopez 1Tanyon Sturtze 1Steve Trachsel 1Victor Zambrano 1

(through 2014)OPENING DAY LINEUPS

OPENING DAY RECAPS

O.D. STARTS

April 2, 2007 (R): New York 9, Tampa Bay 5With an average age of 24.79, the Rays started the young-est Opening Day lineup since the 1983 Twins. Elijah Dukes became the 99th player in major league history to homer in his first official ML at-bat when he connected off Carl Pavano in the fifth inning. The Rays led 5-3 in the sixth inning, but the Yankees scored two runs in their half of the inning and added three more in the eighth.

March 31, 2008 (R): Tampa Bay 6, Baltimore 2James Shields allowed a 2-run double to Kevin Millar in the first inning, then shut out the Orioles over the next six innings. B.J. Upton’s two-run single in the third inning put the Rays ahead to stay. Dioner Navarro had three hits to lead the Rays 10-hit attack.

April 7, 2009 (R): Boston 5, Tampa Bay 3After getting rained out a day earlier, the Rays and Red Sox finally opened the season, 169 days after the Rays beat the Sox in Game 7 of the 2008 ALCS. Dustin Pedroia and Jason Varitek had solo home runs off James Shields, the latter knocking the Rays starter out in the 6th inning. The Rays had only one hit through 5 innings. Carl Crawford’s double put runners on 2nd and 3rd with no outs in the 6th inning, but the Rays couldn’t score. Josh Beckett fanned 10 Rays and allowed only 2 hits in 7 innings.

April 6, 2010 (H): Tampa Bay 4, Baltimore 3Carl Crawford’s one-out, 2-run double in the 9th inning off Mike Gonzalez gave the Rays their second walk-off win on Open-ing Day. Sean Rodriguez singled with one out in the 9th and Kelly Shoppach doubled in his first plate appearance as a Ray. Bartlett then received his only intentional walk of the season setting up Crawford’s heroics. Evan Longoria blasted a 473-foot home run to left off Kevin Millwood in the 6th to bring the Rays to within 3-2.

April 1, 2011 (H): Baltimore 4, Tampa Bay 1The two teams combined for only nine hits. Orioles righthander Jeremy Guthrie allowed only 3 hits and one walk through 8 in-nings. Ben Zobrist led off the ninth inning with a home run off Jim Johnson for the Rays only run of the game. Zobrist had two of the Rays four hits.

April 6, 2012 (H): Tampa Bay 7, New York 6Rays scored two runs in the 9th off Mariano Rivera to overcome a 6-5 deficit. Rivera had been 60 of 61 in save opportunities vs. the Rays. Carlos Peña’s one-out single in the 9th scored Ben Zobrist, who had tripled in the tying run, giving the Rays their 3rd walk-off win on Opening Day. Peña also hit a grand slam off CC Sabathia in the first inning, the Rays 2nd on Opening Day.

April 2, 2013 (H): Baltimore 7, Tampa Bay 4Rays dropped to 2-4 in season openers against the Orioles, their most frequent Opening Day opponent. David Price al-lowed a 2-run home run in the 1st inning to Matt Wieters. The Rays carried a 3-2 lead into the late innings following a solo homer by Ben Zobrist in the 4th and an RBI double by Des-mond Jennings and sacrifice fly by Zobrist in the 6th. Jake Mc-Gee allowed a then-career high five runs in the 7th, a lead the Orioles never relinquished. All seven runs the Rays allowed came with two outs.

March 31, 2014 (H): Tampa Bay 9, Toronto 2Rays matched their largest margin of victory (2011, 2000) and highest run total (2002) on Opening Day in franchise history. The Rays scored in the first three innings to build a 4-0 lead. David Price’s 7.1 IP matched the 2nd-longest Opening Day start in franchise history. Wil Myers tied his career high with 3 hits and Matt Joyce recorded 3 RBI.

PLAYER AVG G AB H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO OBP SLGCabrera .233 7 30 7 1 0 1 3 2 3 .281 .367

Notes: Has made 7 straight Opening Day starts (5-SS, 2-2B)…had 2-run HR in 2013 (R.A. Dickey).DeJesus .205 10 39 8 1 0 0 1 1 8 .244 .231

Notes: Has two multi-hit efforts: 2005 and 2010…only RBI was 2005 at Detroit (single off Jeremy Bonderman).Guyer - 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - -

Notes: Entered as a pinch-runner in the 8th inning in 2014…played the 9th inn. in LF.Jaso .222 3 9 2 2 0 0 0 1 4 .300 .444

Notes: Reached in 2 of 4 PA as A’s Opening Day catcher in 2014 (double, walk).Jennings .500 3 12 6 2 0 0 1 2 1 .571 .667

Notes: His .500 avg. is T-1st (min. 10 AB) among Rays all-time on Opening Day along with Julio Lugo.Loney .292 7 24 7 1 0 0 6 3 4 .357 .333

Notes: Went 3-for-4 with 2 RBI in the Dodgers 4-1 win at San Diego in 2009…had a sac fly in 2014.Longoria .348 6 23 8 0 0 2 5 3 4 .423 .609

Notes: His 2 Opening Day HR are tied for the club record…reached base in all 5 PA in 2012 vs. NYY.Rivera .000 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000

Notes: Made first career Opening Day start in 2014…caught Andrew Cashner (6-IP, 1-ER).

Evan Longoria 2 2010, 2012Gerald Williams 2 2000, 2001Ben Zobrist 2 2011, 2013Wade Boggs 1 1998Jose Canseco 1 1999John Flaherty 1 1999Fred McGriff 1 2000*Randy Winn 1 2001Carl Crawford 1 2003Terry Shumpert 1 2003Jose Cruz Jr. 1 2004Tino Martinez 1 2004Travis Lee 1 2006Jonny Gomes 1 2006Elijah Dukes 1 2007Eric Hinske 1 2008Carlos Peña 1 2012*

G AVG (H-AB)Desmond Jennings 3 .500 (6-12)Julio Lugo 3 .500 (5-10)Fred McGriff 4 .474 (9-19)Kevin Stocker 3 .400 (4-10)John Flaherty 4 .353 (6-17)Evan Longoria 6 .348 (8-23)Dioner Navarro 4 .333 (5-15)B.J. Upton 4 .333 (5-15)Travis Lee 3 .333 (4-12)Ben Zobrist 6 .318 (7-22)

* grand slam

(min. 10 AB)

PLAYER G W L ERA GS SV IP H ER HR BB SOBalfour 1 0 0 0.00 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0Frieri 2 0 0 0.00 0 1 2.0 1 0 0 2 4Jepsen 4 0 0 18.00 0 0 3.0 6 6 2 4 5

RAYS HITTERS vs. ORIOLES2014 CAREER

PLAYER G AB H HR RBI BB SO AVG OBP G AB H HR RBI BB SO AVG OBPBeckham - - - - - - - - - 3 5 1 0 1 0 0 .200 .167Cabrera 3 8 1 0 0 1 1 .125 .222 43 166 51 6 33 13 26 .307 .360DeJesus 11 24 8 2 2 3 3 .333 .407 58 208 49 4 16 21 32 .236 .307Forsythe 16 35 8 2 4 8 6 .229 .386 17 39 9 2 4 8 7 .231 .375Guyer 13 30 8 0 2 1 5 .267 .313 18 46 12 2 5 1 8 .261 .292Jaso 6 19 6 0 7 1 1 .316 .350 40 113 27 2 13 17 17 .239 .338Jennings 15 59 14 2 2 5 14 .237 .297 49 190 42 8 18 14 44 .221 .277Kiermaier 12 41 11 3 4 0 8 .268 .268 12 41 11 3 4 0 8 .268 .268Loney 19 71 16 2 7 8 11 .225 .313 42 141 37 4 17 13 19 .262 .327Longoria 19 73 19 3 10 6 17 .260 .309 106 414 112 24 72 41 100 .271 .338Rivera - - - - - - - - - 4 14 2 1 1 0 1 .143 .143Souza Jr. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Wilson - - - - - - - - - 12 20 7 0 2 6 1 .350 .481

2014 CAREERPLAYER W L SV IP H ER SO ERA AVG W L SV IP H ER SO ERA AVGAndriese - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Archer 0 1 0 10.0 19 10 12 9.00 .404 1 2 0 25.0 29 16 24 5.76 .287Balfour 0 1 0 4.0 9 4 1 9.00 .429 2 2 6 38.0 29 16 35 3.79 .210Beliveau 0 0 0 3.2 2 0 7 0.00 .154 0 0 0 3.2 2 0 7 0.00 .154Boxberger 2 0 0 12.0 4 3 19 2.25 .098 2 0 0 12.0 4 3 19 2.25 .098Frieri - - - - - - - - - 0 0 1 4.0 1 0 7 0.00 .077Geltz 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0 - - 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0 - -Jepsen 0 0 0 2.0 0 0 2 0.00 .000 0 0 0 11.2 5 1 9 0.77 .128Karns - - - - - - - - - 0 0 0 4.1 5 3 3 6.23 .278Odorizzi 0 2 0 19.1 25 14 18 6.52 .305 0 2 0 23.0 26 14 20 5.48 .277Ramirez - - - - - - - - - 1 0 0 14.0 8 6 12 3.86 .160Yates 0 1 0 6.2 9 3 9 4.05 .310 0 1 0 6.2 9 3 9 4.05 .310

RAYS PITCHERS vs. ORIOLES

O.D. HOMERS (20) O.D. AVG. LEADERS

OPENING DAY CAREER BATTING

OPENING DAY CAREER PITCHING

RAYS 2015 DAY-BY-DAYPOS. HOME

# GAME FINAL WINNER LOSER W-L GA/GB ATT. CUM.1 4/6 vs. BAL 3:10 2015 Schedule Magnet (All fans)2 4/7 vs. BAL 7:103 4/8 vs. BAL 7:10

4/9 - OFF (1)4 4/10 at MIA 7:105 4/11 at MIA 4:106 4/12 at MIA 1:107 4/13 at TOR 7:078 4/14 at TOR 7:079 4/15 at TOR 7:0710 4/16 at TOR 7:0711 4/17 vs. NYY 7:10 Cross-Body Bag (All women)12 4/18 vs. NYY 7:10 Alex Cobb Gumby (All fans)13 4/19 vs. NYY 1:10 Evan Longoria Rubber Duck (Kids 14 & under)

4/20 - OFF (2)14 4/21 vs. BOS 7:1015 4/22 vs. BOS 7:1016 4/23 vs. BOS 7:1017 4/24 vs. TOR 7:1018 4/25 vs. TOR 6:10 Chris Archer Bobblehead (All fans)19 4/26 vs. TOR 1:10 Desmond Jennings Batting Gloves (Kids 14 & under)20 4/27 at NYY 7:0521 4/28 at NYY 7:0522 4/29 at NYY 1:05

4/30 - OFF (3)23 5/1 at BAL 7:0524 5/2 at BAL 7:0525 5/3 at BAL 1:3526 5/4 at BOS 7:1027 5/5 at BOS 7:1028 5/6 at BOS 7:1029 5/7 vs. TEX 7:1030 5/8 vs. TEX 7:1031 5/9 vs. TEX 6:10 Evan Longoria Walk-Up Music Bobblehead (All fans)32 5/10 vs. TEX 1:10 Shared Moments Picture Frame (All women)33 5/11 vs. NYY 7:1034 5/12 vs. NYY 7:1035 5/13 vs. NYY 7:1036 5/14 vs. NYY 7:1037 5/15 at MIN 8:1038 5/16 at MIN 2:1039 5/17 at MIN 2:10

5/18 - OFF (4)40 5/19 at ATL 7:1041 5/20 at ATL 7:1042 5/21 vs. OAK 7:1043 5/22 vs. OAK 7:1044 5/23 vs. OAK 4:1045 5/24 vs. OAK 1:10 Camo Tank Top (Kids 14 & under)46 5/25 vs. SEA 7:1047 5/26 vs. SEA 7:1048 5/27 vs. SEA 1:10

5/28 - OFF (5)49 5/29 at BAL 7:0550 5/30 at BAL 4:0551 5/31 at BAL 1:3552 6/1 at LAA 10:0553 6/2 at LAA 10:0554 6/3 at LAA 10:0555 6/4 at SEA 10:1056 6/5 at SEA 10:1057 6/6 at SEA 10:1058 6/7 at SEA 4:10

6/8 - OFF (6)59 6/9 vs. LAA 7:1060 6/10 vs. LAA 7:1061 6/11 vs. LAA 7:1062 6/12 vs. CWS 7:10 MLB Network Reusable Tote Bag (All fans)63 6/13 vs. CWS 4:1064 6/14 vs. CWS 1:10 Rays Etch A Sketch (Kids 14 & under)65 6/15 vs. WAS 7:1066 6/16 vs. WAS 7:1067 6/17 at WAS 7:0568 6/18 at WAS 7:0569 6/19 at CLE 7:1070 6/20 at CLE 7:1071 6/21 at CLE 1:1072 6/22 vs. TOR 7:1073 6/23 vs. TOR 7:1074 6/24 vs. TOR 12:10 Rays Cheer Sticks (Kids 14 & under)

6/25 - OFF (7)75 6/26 vs. BOS 7:10 Rays Cowboy Hat (All women)76 6/27 vs. BOS 4:10 Rays Retro Headband (All fans)77 6/28 vs. BOS 1:10 Rays Retro Tin Lunch Box (Kids 14 & under)78 6/29 vs. CLE 7:1079 6/30 vs. CLE 7:1080 7/1 vs. CLE 7:1081 7/2 vs. CLE 12:10 Rays Cheer Sticks (Kids 14 & under)82 7/3 at NYY 7:0583 7/4 at NYY 1:0584 7/5 at NYY 1:05

POS. HOME# GAME FINAL WINNER LOSER W-L GA/GB ATT. CUM.85 7/6 at KC 8:1086 7/7 at KC 8:1087 7/8 at KC 8:1088 7/9 at KC 2:1089 7/10 vs. HOU 7:1090 7/11 vs. HOU 4:1091 7/12 vs. HOU 1:10 Rays Inflatable Chair (Kids 14 & under)

7/13 - All-Star Break7/14 - All-Star Game Great American Ball Park (Cincinnati Reds)7/15 - All-Star Break7/16 - All-Star Break

92 7/17 at TOR 7:0793 7/18 at TOR 1:0794 7/19 at TOR 1:0795 7/20 at PHI 7:0596 7/21 at PHI 7:0597 7/22 at PHI 1:05

7/23 - OFF (8)98 7/24 vs. BAL 7:1099 7/25 vs. BAL 6:10100 7/26 vs. BAL 1:10 Rays Surprise Christmas Present (Kids 14 & under)101 7/27 vs. DET 7:10102 7/28 vs. DET 7:10103 7/29 vs. DET 12:10 Rays Cheer Sticks (Kids 14 & under)

7/30 - OFF (9)104 7/31 at BOS 7:10105 8/1 at BOS 1:35106 8/2 at BOS 1:35107 8/3 at CWS 8:10108 8/4 at CWS 8:10109 8/5 at CWS 2:10

8/6 - OFF (10)110 8/7 vs. NYM 7:10 DJ Kitty Cat Face Bag (All women)111 8/8 vs. NYM 6:10 Rays Fedora (All fans)112 8/9 vs. NYM 1:10 Raymond Soap Dispenser (Kids 14 & under)

8/10 - OFF (11)113 8/11 vs. ATL 7:10114 8/12 vs. ATL 7:10

8/13 - OFF (12)115 8/14 at TEX 8:05116 8/15 at TEX 8:05117 8/16 at TEX 3:05118 8/17 at HOU 8:10119 8/18 at HOU 8:10120 8/19 at HOU 8:10121 8/20 at HOU 8:10122 8/21 at OAK 10:07123 8/22 at OAK 9:07124 8/23 at OAK 4:07

8/24 - OFF (13)125 8/25 vs. MIN 7:10126 8/26 vs. MIN 7:10127 8/27 vs. MIN 7:10128 8/28 vs. KC 7:10129 8/29 vs. KC 6:10 Kevin Kiermaier Outlaw Action Figure (All fans)130 8/30 vs. KC 1:10 DJ Kitty Drawstring Bag (Kids 14 & under)131 8/31 at BAL 7:05132 9/1 at BAL 7:05133 9/2 at BAL 7:05

9/3 - OFF (14)134 9/4 at NYY 7:05135 9/5 at NYY 1:05136 9/6 at NYY 1:05137 9/7 at DET 1:08138 9/8 at DET 7:08139 9/9 at DET 7:08

9/10 - OFF (15)140 9/11 vs. BOS 7:10141 9/12 vs. BOS 6:10 DJ Kitty Plush Window Cling (All fans)142 9/13 vs. BOS 1:10 Rays Superhero Cape T-Shirt (Kids 14 & under)143 9/14 vs. NYY 7:10144 9/15 vs. NYY 7:10145 9/16 vs. NYY 7:10146 9/17 vs. BAL 7:10147 9/18 vs. BAL 7:10148 9/19 vs. BAL 6:10 Fan Vote Bobblehead (All fans)149 9/20 vs. BAL 1:10 Rays Skull Cap (Kids 14 & under)150 9/21 at BOS 7:10151 9/22 at BOS 7:10152 9/23 at BOS 7:10153 9/24 at BOS 7:10154 9/25 at TOR 7:07155 9/26 at TOR 1:07156 9/27 at TOR 1:07

9/28 - OFF (16)157 9/29 vs. MIA 7:10158 9/30 vs. MIA 7:10159 10/1 vs. MIA 7:10160 10/2 vs. TOR 7:10161 10/3 vs. TOR 6:10 Rays Oktoberfest Freezer Mug (All fans)162 10/4 vs. TOR 3:10 Raymond Halloween Mask (Kids 14 & under)

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