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Tampa Bay Rays Start Puts Them in Club that Historically Leads to World Series Title

The Tampa Bay Rays are joining a very exclusive club in major league history, one that has historically led to a World Series title.

Brady Farkas

Tampa Bay Rays Start Puts Them in Club that Historically Leads to World Series Title
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The Tampa Bay Rays are out to an incredible start. This much we know and is obvious.

That said, the Rays are also joining a very exclusive club in major league history -- one that very well could lead them to the World Series.

The Rays are currently 29-7 on the season after beating the Baltimore Orioles on Monday night. Before the game, the Twitter account @OptaSTATS put out this nugget about the Rays great start.

"The @RaysBaseball are the fifth team in the World Series era to start 28-7 or better through 35 games.

The previous four teams to do so all made the World Series in the same season, going 3-1."

Again, that stat was published before the Rays win on Monday, so they are now 29-7 through 36 games. History tells us that the Rays should get to -- and win -- the World Series.

Tampa is already 6.5 games up on second place in the American League East, which is the second-biggest gap between first and second place of any division in baseball.

The Rays currently lead baseball in several statistical categories including runs scored (228), hits (t-336), home runs (73), total bases (634), ERA (2.93), shutouts (7), fewest home runs allowed (29), and WHIP (t-1.13).

The Rays will take on the Orioles again tonight in Baltimore. First pitch is 6:35 p.m. ET as Zach Eflin pitches for Tampa Bay against rookie Grayson Rodriguez for Baltimore.

Last night's score was 3-0 Rays as Shane McClanahan moved to 7-0 on the season.

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Brady Farkas
BRADY FARKAS

Brady Farkas is a baseball writer for Fastball on Sports Illustrated/FanNation and the host of 'The Payoff Pitch' podcast which can be found on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Videos on baseball also posted to YouTube. Brady has spent nearly a decade in sports talk radio and is a graduate of Oswego State University. You can follow him on Twitter @WDEVRadioBrady. 

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