{"id":271062,"date":"2025-08-25T09:44:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T09:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/271062\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T09:44:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T09:44:12","slug":"rays-visit-the-guardians-to-start-3-game-series-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/271062\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays visit the Guardians to start 3-game series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tampa Bay Rays (63-67, fourth in the AL East) vs. Cleveland Guardians (64-65, third in the AL Central)<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland; Monday, 6:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p>PITCHING PROBABLES: Rays: Ian Seymour (1-0, 3.86 ERA, 1.16 WHIP, 26 strikeouts); Guardians: Tanner Bibee (9-9, 4.55 ERA, 1.29 WHIP, 129 strikeouts)<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>BOTTOM LINE: The Cleveland Guardians host the Tampa Bay Rays to start a three-game series.<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland has a 64-65 record overall and a 31-31 record in home games. Guardians pitchers have a collective 3.93 ERA, which ranks sixth in the AL.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay has a 29-34 record in road games and a 63-67 record overall. The Rays have gone 35-55 in games when they have allowed at least one home run.<\/p>\n<p>The teams meet Monday for the first time this season.<\/p>\n<p>TOP PERFORMERS: Jose Ramirez has 24 doubles, two triples and 26 home runs for the Guardians. Steven Kwan is 10 for 40 with a double over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>Junior Caminero leads the Rays with 58 extra base hits (21 doubles and 37 home runs). Christopher Morel is 8 for 25 with a double, three home runs and four RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>LAST 10 GAMES: Guardians: 2-8, .191 batting average, 4.39 ERA, outscored by 23 runs<\/p>\n<p>Rays: 5-5, .246 batting average, 5.16 ERA, outscored by 10 runs<\/p>\n<p>INJURIES: Guardians: Lane Thomas: 10-Day IL (foot), Will Brennan: 60-Day IL (forearm), Andrew Walters: 60-Day IL (lat), Ben Lively: 60-Day IL (forearm), John Means: 60-Day IL (elbow), Sam Hentges: 60-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n<p>Rays: Stuart Fairchild: 60-Day IL (oblique), Ha-Seong Kim: 10-Day IL (back), Taylor Walls: 10-Day IL (groin), Jonny Deluca: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Jonathan Aranda: 10-Day IL (wrist), Manuel Rodriguez: 60-Day IL (forearm), Hunter Bigge: 60-Day IL (lat), Richie Palacios: 60-Day IL (knee), Shane McClanahan: 60-Day IL (tricep), Alex Faedo: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Nathan Lavender: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Data Skrive;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sportradar;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Rays (63-67, fourth in the AL East) vs. Cleveland Guardians (64-65, third in the AL Central)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2377],"tags":[12068,10986,5,2567,891,51,633,11623,21295,367,307,1398,865,4682,3540,1095,4,297,11781,9115,5720,2081,1935,2550,68,2551,2549,777,5521,1966,9645],"class_list":{"0":"post-271062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-rays","8":"tag-alex-faedo","9":"tag-andrew-walters","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-ben-lively","12":"tag-christopher-morel","13":"tag-cleveland-guardians","14":"tag-ha-seong-kim","15":"tag-hunter-bigge","16":"tag-ian-seymour","17":"tag-john-means","18":"tag-jonathan-aranda","19":"tag-jonny-deluca","20":"tag-jose-ramirez","21":"tag-junior-caminero","22":"tag-lane-thomas","23":"tag-manuel-rodriguez","24":"tag-mlb","25":"tag-rays","26":"tag-richie-palacios","27":"tag-sam-hentges","28":"tag-shane-mcclanahan","29":"tag-steven-kwan","30":"tag-stuart-fairchild","31":"tag-tampa-bay","32":"tag-tampa-bay-rays","33":"tag-tampabay","34":"tag-tampabayrays","35":"tag-tanner-bibee","36":"tag-taylor-walls","37":"tag-the-rays","38":"tag-will-brennan"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115088763550594267","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271062","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=271062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}