ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — After a 12-minute umpire delay in the eighth inning, Rays reliever Calvin Faucher struck out the first Brewers batter he faced. Then he backed the second batter, Rowdy Tellez, into a two-strike count.
But Tellez connected on Faucher’s next pitch and launched his curveball into right field. Harold Ramirez faded toward the wall, and kept fading, as Tellez’s blast kept rising, until eventually the ball bounced off the C-Ring — one of the two lower catwalks at Tropicana Field — and settled into the outfield grass for a home run.
Tellez’s second homer Wednesday afternoon, and Milwaukee’s sixth of the two-game series, created an advantage the Rays couldn’t overcome in a 5-3 loss as the Brewers swept the short series.
