#MLBVideos: Rays vs. A’s Game Highlights (8/13/25) | MLB Highlights

Rays vs. A’s Game Highlights (8/13/25) | MLB Highlights

Welcome everyone to Sacramento California. It is the rubber match of the three game series. It’s the Rays and the A’s and the winner tonight claims the series win JT revving up. He’s only got one win at home this year. Chris was against the Mets on April 12th. Chandler Simpson taps the bat on home plate. He’s had a good series with four hits and six turns and a walk very interrupted season. Here’s a little flair by Chandler Simpson and a drop leadoff man aboard Chandler is wearing out the A’s this year and in this series and against what we like to say, you like to see soft contact off the Chandler Chandler rolls away. He’s going to try it. He gets to second, trying to be quick and try the pick off throw and that ball just gets away from Soderstrom actually probably should have caught that baseball was not able to and Simpson quickly scampers to second base. I wasn’t even sure that it rolled far away enough, but with his speed, I guess so, swung on and lifted in the air to left Cortez toward the line. Have a play and unproductive out number one is, it’s caught by Cortez Simpson actually is going to try and chance it on the throw. Not in time. I didn’t think he was going to try and chance that I’m saying unproductive out and it turns out to be a productive out. Now, it will require a two out hit to get the raises. The game’s first run here in the opening frame, here’s Josh Lowe. S take the lead in the first inning and the ball so well that , that should be. So it ends up being an RB I double for josh Lowe and that young fellow has a little egg on his face. But you know what, it’s probably what it would have ended up being anyway. Yeah, I mean that no question. But do they eject him? There can Junior cro make this a crooked number in the first against Gin? That’s a whistler to the gap in left center to double the first inning lead. Junior como with an RB I double plating Josh Lowe and the Rays instantly have a two nothing lead. That’s one of those head scratchers. What was thinking? He gets ahead of him with two sliders away from him and a bad miss on the swing and Then he comes with the two seamer right down the middle. Now, I see he’s trying to get it in. I just don’t understand the thinking on that pitch. Here’s Jake man 20 swinging a little loop to second it’s going to get into center field for a base hit and score another run. Here comes cao as the throw home is cut off RB I single into center for Jake Mango and the have scored 32 out runs on run scoring hits by low and Mangum in succession 3 to 0. Tampa Bay in the first fantastic job left hander getting again right here. This is a sinker. Here’s the first free pass allowed by JT and man moves up to second. Mangum goes pitches a strike throw to second for third. Goes into that. Man will get up and Trout home fuc goes to third and the Rays now lead 40 on the second error of the inning by the A’s the Rays doing what they do causing chaos on the base paths. Taking the mound tonight for the Tampa Bay Rays going to be right hander. Drew Rasmussen making the 24th start of the season popped up by Butler. The foul 140. The pitch squibbed on the ground sword first, easy play for Yandy Diaz. He’ll take it to the bag himself and there’s two quick outs for Drew Rasmussen swings and lines one to left center over on the run and making the catch Tristan Peters. He got a good jump going to his right and Drew Rasmussen on seven pitches gets the side in order after Gin threw 40 in the first Chandler Simpson manufactured a run for the Rays in the first swung on, rolled up the first base line trouble, Soderstrom has it pitches to the pitch again, but he’s the first too late. And Chandler Simpson has his second hit of the night on the infield. That’s a Chandler Simpson specialty. And brandon Lau has a chance to move the merry go round. Further runner goes and hits it high in the air deep to left center butler. Going back, looking up the jet stream carries it way out of here that went off the top of the building in left center Lau with his fifth home run of this road trip and his 24th of the season and it is 6 to 0 race in the second inning. It was an absolute bomb to left center field. This one on top of the building that you see out there in left center and he got every piece of that for his 150th career home run 458 ft with those two scoreless innings for Rasmussen. He’s thrown 17 and one third consecutive scoreless innings gone homers for the 16th time this year. And the A’s needed that it’s 6 to 1. You talk about crushing a baseball Lawrence picked up right where he left off yesterday that he is dead left central with authority swinging a cla down on strikes Schumann lof to it to Peters. It just doesn’t allow that optimal contact although Butler got it. 12 is going to miss strike three. Rasmussen gets his second punch out. Dr Rasmussen will face Langle Rooker and Soderstrom 23 and four. Groundball hit on a couple of hops to short gobbled up by Kim sets throws and in time to get langeliers and one out here in the fourth for Drew Rasmussen swing and a Miss high fastball able to get Rooker and two down here in the fourth inning and the home run by Lawrence Butler. Rasmussen has found another gear fastball called strike three and Soderstrom new it and Drew Rasmussen with a clean fourth with two more punch outs. We’re now through four in West Sacramento. Here’s Butler two on nobody out that’s taken inside corner called strike three. Rasmussen bouncing back after the lengthy at bat. Here’s runners lead at 1st and 2nd one left center field. Thomas he will score. It’s a 6 to 2 game as Urshela drives on the second run for the athletics. Wow. Geo just sat on that ball in the middle of the plate and he hit a bullet and that’s good enough to score Thomas this balls flat right in the middle of the plate and that’s what you do and that’s how you do. Hey, look, you chip away a little bit of time. So you catch these guys pitching coach Kyle Snyder out with his entire infield, basically. Minus Diaz who remains at first , talk to Rasmussen. The rays have not allowed Drew to go more than six innings generally. So this probably his last frame chopped in the ground to third two. Hopper waist high for sets fires in time and Drew Rasmussen with a five pitch sixth inning and he maintains the lead as the Rays up 62 going to the late frames leads off for the against the right hander Griffin Jacks Jack coming over from the twins at the deadline. A swing and a miss as Jack flexes his muscles with his slider and there’s one gone here in the eighth inning swing and a miss slider from Jacks Schuman way off balance and two punchouts mean two out in the eighth check swing. Did he go? Oh yeah, he did wicked sliders from Griffin Jacks. He fans the side of the eighth and the Rays are three outs away from a series win. Junior coming will get one last chance swing of the ball hit high in the air to left. Is there enough carry toward the line Cortez to the wall. Junior com. That’s the capper. The Rays now have an 82 lead here in the night. That was incredible job. First of all the barrel to the pitch, I mean, able to catch fastball out in front and pull it. So two more extra base hits tonight for Junior that gives him 34 homers and 84 batted in 12 strikeouts for Rays pitching tonight and they have not walked a single batter. It is Rays make their initial entrance to Sacramento and take two of three from the temporary home standing. A’s the first of three trips the Rays will make here until 2028 when they go to Vegas. But for tonight, the Rays win, they get the home runs from LA and they got the great start from Rasmussen to the bullpen. Nearly perfect and Ruth to a comfortable 82 win to take the series against the.

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