{"id":52970,"date":"2025-05-25T06:39:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T06:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/52970\/"},"modified":"2025-05-25T06:39:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T06:39:13","slug":"caminero-hits-3-run-hr-as-rays-beat-blue-jays-3-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/52970\/","title":{"rendered":"Caminero hits 3-run HR as Rays beat Blue Jays 3-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Junior Caminero hit a three-run home run in the first inning to back a strong start by Shane Baz, and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Toronto Blue Jays 3-1 on Saturday night for their fourth straight win.<\/p>\n<p>Pete Fairbanks issued two walks before retiring Myles Straw on a fly ball to center for the final out in his second straight save and 10th this season.<\/p>\n<p>Josh Lowe drew a one-out walk from Blue Jays starter Jos\u00e9 Berrios in the first, Brandon Lowe hit a ground-rule double, and Caminero followed with his ninth home run for a 3-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit the longest of his seven home runs this season \u2014 a 423-foot shot to left field off Baz leading off the sixth to get the Blue Jays on the scoreboard. Guerrero has reached base in 24 straight games \u2014 the longest current streak in the majors.<\/p>\n<p>Baz (4-3) allowed one run and four hits in 5 2\/3 innings. Garrett Cleavinger retired four batters, and Manuel Rodr\u00edguez pitched a 1-2-3 eighth.<\/p>\n<p>Berrios (1-2) finished six innings and allowed one hit over the final five. The loss ends a stretch of seven straight starts without a decision despite pitching at least five innings in all of them.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays placed RHP Yimi Garc\u00eda on the 10-day injured list before the game with a shoulder impingement and called up RHP Paxton Schultz from Triple-A Buffalo for the second time this season. Schultz pitched a perfect eighth.<\/p>\n<p>Key moment<\/p>\n<p>Baz walked two in loading the bases with two outs in the second, but he retired Nathan Lukes on a force out at second and was in control from there.<\/p>\n<p>Key stat<\/p>\n<p>Baz was 3-0 with a 2.45 ERA in five April starts but 0-3 with a 9.61 ERA in his first four starts this month.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Blue Jays RHP Chris Bassitt (4-2, 2.83) starts Sunday\u2019s finale against Rays RHP Ryan Pepiot (2-5, 3.99).<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Junior Caminero hit a three-run home run in the first inning to back a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2378],"tags":[1769,5,377,2554,610,4,15661,184,557,185,295,68,282,70,2553],"class_list":{"0":"post-52970","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-blue-jays","8":"tag-associated-press","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-blue-jays","11":"tag-bluejays","12":"tag-fl","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-on-air-ticker-article","15":"tag-orlando","16":"tag-professional-baseball","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-tampa","19":"tag-tampa-bay-rays","20":"tag-toronto","21":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","22":"tag-torontobluejays"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114567103431527118","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52970","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=52970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}