MINNEAPOLIS — Tampa Bay Rays reliever Pete Fairbanks says he owes the Minnesota Twins a brand new stool for the clubhouse.
Fairbanks surrendered a tying three-run homer within the backside of the ninth inning in Tampa Bay’s eventual 7-6, 10-inning win at Minnesota on Thursday. The nearer then stormed into the visiting clubhouse and, in his phrases, pulverized a small stool akin to what you’d see in a preschool classroom.
“It isn’t existent anymore,” stated Fairbanks, who returned within the tenth to safe victory two days after leaving Tuesday’s 7-6 loss right here with a right-thumb contusion on his throwing hand. “However generally, you bought to get all of it out to go on the market and put up one other zero.”
Fairbanks (2-3) did simply that within the tenth, thanks largely to middle fielder Jose Siri’s sturdy throw from right-center discipline that doubled up automated runner Royce Lewis at third base. Fairbanks then bought Carlos Santana to fly out to middle as Tampa Bay received its second straight recreation at Goal Area.
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It had been a largely irritating week within the Twin Cities to that time for Fairbanks.
Tuesday, he took a line drive off his throwing hand and could not grip the ball correctly on ensuing warmup pitches. Postgame X-rays got here again destructive, and Fairbanks stated the thumb was tremendous Thursday.
It was “only one dangerous slider” that allowed Jose Miranda to line a three-run residence run into the left-field bleachers that had Fairbanks fuming.
Fairbanks stated he was “simply strolling out of the fashion room” — extra particularly, the guests’ batting cage — when Rays pitching coach Kyle Snyder instructed him he was going again out for the tenth.
“I used to be busy letting each little bit of destructive emotion out of my physique within the cage,” stated Fairbanks, who entered the week with a 0.56 ERA and a WHIP of 0.88 to rank among the many greatest closers within the American League, “and Snydes stated, ‘Hey, you have to throw the following one.'”
Fairbanks stated he replied utilizing an expletive to explain his ninth-inning efficiency and need to make up for it within the tenth.
“And that was that,” Fairbanks stated.