CLEVELAND _ The Rays got a few extra hours to stew over Friday's frustrating loss when Saturday's scheduled 4:10 start got pushed back to nearly 7 due to the threat of heavy rain that never happened.
And then they went out and did something about it.
A few things actually, in rolling to a 6-2 victory that was their 30th of the season.
The guy who was down on himself after a four-strikeout game Friday, Brandon Lowe, doubled in the first run and then later added his team-leading 11th homer to run his RBI total to 30.
The guy stuck in something of a personal power outage, Ji-Man Choi, hit his first homer since May 10 and fourth overall, a two-run shot in the fifth that put the Rays ahead to stay.
The guy so mad at the end of Friday's game he broke a maple bat over his right leg, Tommy Pham, extended two streaks, a single giving him hits in 11 straight games and a seventh-inning homer making it six straight with an extra-base hit.
And the guy trying to rebound from a rough Sunday outing in New York, Charlie Morton, delivered a solid six innings, striking out a season-high 10 and allowing only three hits and two walks.
The Rays improved to 30-19, again matching their season high of 11 games over .500.
Lowe had been doing more missing than hitting for a while, Friday's 4-K game giving him 24 strikeouts in his previous 46 plate appearances, and only one walk, over his last 12 games. That started with a five-strikeout game on May 8, and a team-record tying stretch of eight straight.
"This is not normal for me," Lowe said Saturday afternoon. "I'm not very happy with my performance. I'm watching video. I'm doing extra work in the cage. I'm doing what I can to improve and not have this happen."
Manager Kevin Cash said it was more a matter of not being behind the curve, that Lowe, who likes to hit fastballs, was getting a heavy dose of breaking balls and needed to deal with that.
"He'll make an adjustment," Cash said. "He knows he had to."
Also, Cash wasn't worried about Lowe's strikeouts.
"We've seen him have a game like that and bounce right back," Cash said.
The Rays scored first as Avisail Garcia singled to lead off the second and was running on the pitch when Lowe sliced a double to the right of center. The Indians came right back and tied it when ex-Ray Jake Bauers led off with a walk, then moved to third and scored on shift-beating singles by Jose Ramirez and Leonys Martin.
The Rays wasted a prime chance in the fourth, bases loaded with one out and neither Kevin Kiermaier nor Travis d'Arnaud putting the ball in play by striking out against starter Carlos Carrasco. That left them 5 for 35 (.143) thus far with the bases loaded, which isn't good.
But they came back to take the lead for good in the fifth as Pham singled with two outs, and Choi followed with a homer to left. Lowe went deep to open the sixth and Pham in the seventh.
In what turned out be a severe miscalculation sure to be blamed on the forecast, the Indians delayed the game a long time, nearly three hours, for a short period of rain, maybe 10 minutes for anything substantial.
So much for a planned late afternoon start and an early night.
Instead, the teams basically waited around for nearly two hours in which they could have been playing for severe thunderstorms that never arrived, sat through one band of rain that would have caused a brief delay, then got started just before 7.
The teams wrap up the four-game series with a scheduled 1:10 start on Sunday, with Jalen Beeks the bulk guy for the Rays and Trevor Bauer starting for the Indians. More rain is forecast.
