James Shields was dominant in his first 3 but in this one not so much. He did have 8K after 3 and looked dominant. tampa scored a run in the first to get an early lead and made it 4-0 after 3 when kelley shoppach started it all off with tampas 2nd inside the parker in the spring. Prince Fielder and Greg Zaun both hit 2 run homers in the top of the 4th to tie it up 4-4. Fielder wasnt done yet as he powered his 2nd 2RHR in the 5th which gave the brew crew a 6-4 lead, but Tampa answered in the bottom half as a suicide squeeze by zobrist made it 6-5 and the next batter upton charged a 2 run homer to give tampa a 7-6 lead. The rays added one more with a pat burrell solo dinger in the 8th to put tampa up by the eventual final Milwalkee 6 Tampa Bay 8. Shields goes to 3-0 in the spring and Rafael Soriano latches his 2nd spring save as the Rays win the shootout 8-6. Tampa will be inactive until late sunday so the rays will probably wrap up spring 3-0. 22000+ saw the game at PNC Park in PA and the Rays now look forward to the season!
W:Shields
L:Villanueva
S:Soriano