If pitching is contagious, as many in baseball claim, the Tampa Bay Rays have an epidemic on their hands.
Manager Kevin Cash and his red-hot pitching staff will begin a three-game series against the Toronto Blue Jays with the series opener Friday night in St. Petersburg, Fla.
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