The Rays snapped one of baseball's oldest records Wednesday when they played their 705th consecutive game with a starting pitcher younger than 30 years old. James Shields got the start at Oakland as the Rays broke the previous mark set by the Washington Senators from 1913-17. "I think it's pretty awesome," Tampa Bay manager Joe Maddon said. "There's plenty of organizations that could go out and play that many games with starting pitchers less than 30 years of age. But to go out there and play that many games with pitchers less than 30 and win as well as we have, that's what makes us different." The Rays last started a pitcher 30 or older on May 24, 2007, when Jae Sao took the mound on his 30th birthday.