{"id":123000,"date":"2025-06-22T15:03:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T15:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/123000\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T15:03:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T15:03:12","slug":"rays-beat-the-tigers-8-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/123000\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays beat the Tigers 8-3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/author\/zak-gilbert\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ZAK GILBERT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TAMPA, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Junior Caminero, Danny Jansen and Christopher Morel each hit a solo homer, helping Ryan Pepiot and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Detroit Tigers 8-3 on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor Walls had two RBIs for Tampa Bay, and Yandy D\u00edaz extended his hitting streak to 12 games. Pepiot (5-6) struck out seven while pitching five innings of one-run ball.<\/p>\n<p>With its second straight win over AL Central-leading Detroit, Tampa Bay moved a season-best nine games over .500 at 43-34. The Rays are a major league-best 22-8 since May 20.<\/p>\n<p>Jahmai Jones had an RBI double for Detroit, and Jake Rogers also drove in a run. Brant Hurter (2-3) recorded two outs as the opener and was charged with four unearned runs.<\/p>\n<p>Caminero and Jansen connected in the fourth, giving Tampa Bay a 7-1 lead. Morel went deep in the seventh.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Gervase, a 6-foot-10 prospect, made his major league debut in relief of Pepiot. He pitched two scoreless innings.<\/p>\n<p>Key moment<\/p>\n<p>Hurter actually retired the first three batters, fanning Lowe and Caminero. But Lowe reached on a third-strike passed ball by Rogers. The Rays proceeded to bat around and score four times, chasing Hurter on Walls\u2019 two-run single.<\/p>\n<p>Key stat<\/p>\n<p>The Rays have scored a total of eight first-inning runs over the first two games in the series.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Right-hander Casey Mize (7-2, 2.96 ERA) pitches for Detroit on Sunday, and right-hander Zack Littell (6-7, 3.88 ERA) goes for Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/hub\/MLB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By\u00a0\u00a0ZAK GILBERT TAMPA, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Junior Caminero, Danny Jansen and Christopher Morel each hit a solo homer,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2377],"tags":[1769,5,610,4,184,557,297,185,295,2550,68,2551,2549],"class_list":{"0":"post-123000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-rays","8":"tag-associated-press","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-fl","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-orlando","13":"tag-professional-baseball","14":"tag-rays","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-tampa","17":"tag-tampa-bay","18":"tag-tampa-bay-rays","19":"tag-tampabay","20":"tag-tampabayrays"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114727630031714653","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}