"Akinori Iwamura will miss the rest of the season with a torn ACL in his left knee. Iwamura was injured trying to turn a double play in the eighth inning Sunday against the Florida Marlins and was carted off the field. He will have surgery after the swelling goes down, according to Rays executive vice president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman (Sportsline)."
The Rays have not been able to get it going yet. They are far from out of it, but losing Iwamura is bigger then most people would think. He is a player who will get on base more then a lot of other guys in that lineup (Upton, Pena). He was like a spark plug for the rest of the team. Now the Rays are going to have to rely on a combination Ben Zobrist and Willy Aybar.
The Rays are currently 5 games back in the AL East, and really need to figure out their bullpen, and even some of their starting rotation.
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