Sports Illustrated is out with its predictions, and it has the Rays going all the way to the World Series. According to SI’s experts, the Rays will finish 95-67, in second place behind the Yankees, but will advance to the Series – and lose again to the Phillies.
After conjuring some ninth-inning magic to defeat the Yankees on Saturday, the Rays are only one game over .500, and quite relieved that a 6-1 run got them there. They have fluttered in fourth place in the American League East every day for almost a month, and have not been higher than third since the first week of the season. Even the manager who could do no wrong one season ago, Joe Maddon, last month had a lineup-card goof cost…
