The surrogate
It begins with a woman who yearns for a baby and another who is willing and able to give her one. You can imagine the motives of the prospective parents. But what about the woman willing to carry a baby, give birth and then walk away?
Friday Night Rewind It doesn't matter which team you cheer for. We've got video previews of every high school football program in Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco and Hernando County.
Rays tickets: $9-$210, available at Tropicana Field box office (no service charge), by phone (888-326-7297), all Ticketmaster outlets and on raysbaseball.com; $2 surcharge for purchases within five hours of that day's game.
Rays info: 1-888-326-7297 (FAN-RAYS)
On deck
Friday: at White Sox, 8:10, FSN. Rays — RHP Edwin Jackson (9-8, 3.97); White Sox — LHP John Danks (10-5, 3.11)
Saturday: at White Sox, 3:55, Ch. 13. Rays — LHP Scott Kazmir (9-6, 3.21); White Sox — RHP Javier Vazquez (10-10, 4.34)
Sunday: at White Sox, 2:05, Ch. 66/TBS. Rays — RHP Andy Sonnanstine (13-6, 4.37); White Sox — LHP Mark Buehrle (11-10, 3.91)
By the numbers
Home/road: 47-18/30-31
Day/night: 20-14/57-35
Grass/turf: 28-28/49-20
Vs. East: 28-19
Vs. Central: 15-12
Vs. West: 22-12
Vs. RH/LH starters: 57-31/20-18
Record when commit an error: 23-27
Ahead after 6-7-8: 57-4/60-4/67-0
Behind after 6-7-8: 8-39/6-41/2-40
Tied after 6-7-8: 12-4/11-3/8-7
1-run games: 23-14
2-run games: 18-5
Extra innings: 8-4
Win in last at-bat: 16-9
Come-from-behind wins: 35
Come-from-ahead losses: 18
When hitting homer: 62-24
Scoring first: 51-15
Number of the day
21 RBIs for backup C Shawn Riggans in just 35 games (105 at-bats)
Number of the day 2
3-for-20 Performance of Rays' Nos. 1-5 hitters Wednesday night, with nine strikeouts
Magic number
32
Tampa Bay wins and Boston losses for Rays to win AL East.
[Last modified: Aug 21, 2008 06:58 AM]
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