The records behind the start of the Tampa Bay Rays with Randy Arozarena and Isaac Paredes

The Tampa Bay Rays have set the tone at the start of the 2023 season of Big leagues, con a perfect step after nine encounters, in which not only does he ignore defeat, but has imposed an offensive rhythm that threatens a couple of historical records, which makes his fans dream.

The Tampa Bay Rays are part of the group of six teams that have never won the World Series along with the Colorado Rockies, Texas Rangers, Milwuakee Brewers, San Diego Padres and the Mariners, which is the only franchise that hasn’t even made it to the World Series.

However, the hopes of the Rays fans are growing after four consecutive seasons entering the playoffs, in addition to a dream startwhich may mark a milestone in MLB history.

The start of the Tampa Bay Rays

Tampa Bay started with wins in their series against the Detroit Tigers, Washington Nationals and Oakland Athletics, and to his first three rivals he dispatched them with resounding victories.

Tampa Bay Rays early season records

• After closing out the series against the Oakland Athletics, the Tampa Bay Rays tied matched the best start to the season for the Kansas City Royals, which in 2003 they also consummated nine consecutive victories.

• That of the Rays, together with the Royals of 2003, represents the best start to the season in the 21st century and if he keeps up in the series against the Boston Red Sox (three games), they will be one win away from tying the marks of the Atlanta Braves and Milwuakee Brewers, who posted a 13-0 record in the 1982 and 1987 seasons, respectively.

  

• Watch out for the bulky wins of the Rays, well in each of their games they have won by four or more runs apart, which represents the best offensive start of the 21st and 20th centuries. To find a better start, we have to go back to 1884, when the St. Louis Maroons reached 13 wins with four or more runs apart.

• The New York Yankees also posted 10 straight wins in 1939 with an offensive difference similar to that of the Rays, the difference is that the Big Apple team did not achieve ten wins in a row at the beginning of that season, but already advanced.

The contribution of the Mexicans in the Rays

The Rays’ excellent start to the season has a Mexican touch, thanks to the presence of Isaac Paredes from Sonora and Randy Arozarena, a Cuban naturalized Mexican, who played with the Mexican team in the World Baseball Classic, have contributed to this streak.

Paredes has contributed six of Tampa Bay’s 64 runs in its first nine games, in addition to having seven hits, two home runs and six strikeouts.

Arozarena, for his part, counted nine runs of those 64 that the ninth registered, 13 hits, two home runs and five strikeouts.

Could it be that this year is a good one for the Tampa Bay Rays? We will have to find out as the 2023 MLB season progresses.