Nick Fortes doubled home the go-ahead run in the ninth inning to give the visiting Tampa Bay Rays a 3-2 comeback victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Monday in the opener of the three-game series.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay\u2019s Jonny DeLuca, who tied it 2-2 with a leadoff homer in the seventh, battled back from a 1-2 count for a two-out walk off Trevor Megill (0-1) in the ninth. Fortes followed with an RBI double to the gap in right-center.<\/p>\n
Ian Seymour entered in the bottom half and hit Sal Frelick with a pitch to open the inning before getting the next two outs. Kevin Kelly came on and got his first save of the year when pinch hitter Blake Perkins bounced into a forceout.<\/p>\n
Garrett Cleavinger (1-1) tossed a scoreless eighth inning for the win.<\/p>\n
Milwaukee lost for the first time after a three-game sweep of the visiting Chicago White Sox to open the season. Tampa Bay had lost two of three at St. Louis to start the campaign.<\/p>\n
Held to three singles by Nick Martinez through the first five innings, the Brewers erased a 1-0 deficit in the sixth on William Contreras\u2019 first homer of the season, a two-run shot. Brice Turang opened with a double down the right-field line before Contreras then sent the first pitch 415 feet to center.<\/p>\n
DeLuca brought the Rays even with his first homer, a seventh-inning shot to left off Aaron Ashby with an exit velocity of 109 mph.<\/p>\n
Yandy Diaz staked the Rays to an immediate 1-0 lead, opening the game with his first homer. Diaz lined 1-2 pitch from Kyle Harrison to left for his 22nd career leadoff homer.<\/p>\n
Harrison, acquired from the Red Sox in an offseason trade, allowed one run on four hits in five innings, striking out eight and walking one.<\/p>\n
Martinez gave up two runs on six hits in six innings, striking out three without a walk in an 88-pitch outing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nick Fortes doubled home the go-ahead run in the ninth inning to give the visiting Tampa Bay Rays…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2377],"tags":[5,4,297,2550,68,2551,2549],"class_list":{"0":"post-654400","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-rays","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-rays","11":"tag-tampa-bay","12":"tag-tampa-bay-rays","13":"tag-tampabay","14":"tag-tampabayrays"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116323894111680651","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654400","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=654400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}