Jackson delivers and Rays win

Trever Miller walked in from the bullpen to start the ninth inning and was booed. He was booed again when he was announced as the pitcher.

That should tell you what kind of game Edwin Jackson had.

Perhaps Jackson deserved a chance at a complete game. Why not? He threw just 99 pitches (the total on the scorebaord was incorrect).

Jackson has allowed just one run in 14 innings this season.

Perhaps he turned the corner and is about to be the pitcher everyone expects him to be.

Anyway, Miller allowed a leadoff single to Adrian Beltre and was booed again.

Al Reyes is throwing in the bullpen.

Wait. Raul Ibanez just bounced into a 6-4-3 double play. Nice play by Bartlett. He went into the hole between short and third to get the ball then turned to start the double play.

Miller gets Richie Sexson looking at a fastball for strike three and that's your ball game.

Rays win 70 to snap a four-game losing streak.

Rays up 7-0 after seven

The Rays exploded for five runs in the seventh for a 7-0 lead. With the way Jackson is pitching -- two hits, six Ks through seven innings -- it appears the Rays have this game in hand, but they are the Rays, so you never know.

The Rays sent 10 batters to the plate in the seventh and had four hits. It was the first time since the fifth inning Saturday at Yankee Stadium that the Rays had more than two hits in one inning.

A two-run single by B.J. Upton with the bases-loaded scored two runs. Another run came home when pinch-hitter Justin Ruggiano walked with the bases loaded.

Mike DiFelice scored two more runs with a bloop single to right-center field.

Jackson just set the Mariners down in order in the eighth. He's thrown just 101 pitches and receives a big hand as he heads to the dugout.

Not sure if Jackson will work the ninth. Trever Miller is throwing in the Rays bullpen.

Hinske homers; no more no-no for Batista

Eric Hinske breaks up Batista's no-hitter with a home run into the right-center field seats with one out in the fourth.

Rays 1, Mariners 0

That was Hinske's second home run of the year. He also homered on Opening Day in Baltimore.

Gomes follows with a single over the head of Mariner first baseman Richie Sexson.

That's the first time the Rays have had back-to-back hits since Aki and C.C. singled to start the first inning Tuesday night, a span of 20 innings.

that's all the hitting for the Rays this innning.

You want a sad stat? The Rays haven't had more than two hits in any inning during this homestand, and they've played 21 innings.

Beltre breaks up Jackson's no-hitter

We have a hit.

Adrian Beltre just smashed one to first and Carlos Pena got his glove on the ball but couldn't hold one. The ball ended up in short right field.

We waited a few minutes for the decision by the official scorer, who reqiested a replay, and the decision: H.

The game is only being televised in Seattle. Breakfast with the Mariners?

raul Ibanez followed the hit with a walk but was erased on a double play.

Carl Crawford preserves the shutout with a diving catch on Jose Vidro's line drive to end the inning.

Still no score.

And Tampa bay is looking for its first hit.

No-No through three

Batista walked Aki with one out in the bottom of the third but did not allow a hit. He set the Rays down by getting three ground outs, two to second and one to first.

Double no-no at the Trop

A little late getting started from my end, but here is what's happening at the Trop on this Thursday afternoon game between the Rays and the Seattle Mariners: Nothing.

As in no hits.

We're through 2 1/2 innings and neither team has a hit.

Rays started Edwin Jackson is outstanding, with just a pair of walks and five strikeouts through three innings.

Mariner starter Miguel Batista has walked two in his first two innings.

Bottom of the 9th

Best part of the Rays being down?

The video screen pump-up, stuffed with blood-boiling clips from Animal House, Rocky II, Hoosiers, Independence Day and Rudy.

It's awesome. I'm a better blogger for watching it.

The Trop is rocking, and the top of the lineup will face Rowland-Smith. Seattle's closer, J.J. Putz, is hurt, so the Rays should take advantage.

Aki goes down looking, however, so now it's Crawford - who promptly pops out.

All up to Pena, whose third-inning home run just landed in Bradenton. The Rays could use another one now, and this place will explode if he does.

He doesn't - Pena whiffs on an 0-2 pitch, and the Rays lose their third straight, 6-5.

They are now 3-4. Same ol' Rays.

This John Lembo, signing off.