Season opener: Marcus Stroman finally gets his (first) number one starter gig, as the natural heir to David Price. The Rays start Chris Archer, who’s already being hyped as a serious Cy Young contender this year. Stroman is good, really good, and goes eight innings on 91 pitches. Despite giving up a run on a couple of hits and having to pitch over two uncharacteristic errors behind him over the first four innings, he never seems in trouble, and then sets the Rays down in order, from the fifth through the eighth inning; the Jays enter the ninth with a 5-1 lead, extended from 3-1 thanks to Troy Tulowitski’s eighth-inning two-run dinger, the Jays’ first of the season. (more…)