{"id":662581,"date":"2026-04-04T11:15:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T11:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/662581\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T11:15:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T11:15:53","slug":"rays-come-into-matchup-against-the-twins-on-losing-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/662581\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays come into matchup against the Twins on losing streak"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> (2-5) vs. Minnesota Twins<\/a> (3-4)<\/p>\n

Minneapolis; Saturday, 7:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Rays: Steven Matz<\/a> (1-0, 7.20 ERA, 1.40 WHIP, two strikeouts); Twins: Mick Abel<\/a> (0-1, 13.50 ERA, 3.60 WHIP, four strikeouts)<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Twins -113, Rays -106; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Tampa Bay Rays, on a three-game losing streak, take on the Minnesota Twins.<\/p>\n

Minnesota went 70-92 overall and 38-43 in home games last season. The Twins averaged 2.8 extra base hits per game, including 1.2 home runs.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay had a 77-85 record overall and a 36-45 record in road games last season. The Rays pitching staff had a collective 3.95 ERA last season while averaging 8.9 strikeouts and 3.0 walks per nine innings.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Twins: Byron Buxton: day-to-day (forearm), David Festa<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Travis Adams: 15-Day IL (tricep), Pablo Lopez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Rays: Garrett Cleavinger: 15-Day IL (calf), Steven Wilson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (back), Edwin Uceta<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Gavin Lux: 10-Day IL (shoulder), Ryan Pepiot<\/a>: 15-Day IL (hip), Manuel Rodriguez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Taylor Walls: 10-Day IL (oblique)<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Rays (2-5) vs. Minnesota Twins (3-4) Minneapolis; Saturday, 7:10 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Rays: Steven Matz…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2388],"tags":[5,3916,6925,75686,19,1095,5158,822,60,3190,4,1997,1956,1555,4274,68,148],"class_list":{"0":"post-662581","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-twins","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-david-festa","10":"tag-edwin-uceta","11":"tag-event_preview","12":"tag-major-league-baseball","13":"tag-manuel-rodriguez","14":"tag-mick-abel","15":"tag-minnesota","16":"tag-minnesota-twins","17":"tag-minnesotatwins","18":"tag-mlb","19":"tag-pablo-lopez","20":"tag-ryan-pepiot","21":"tag-steven-matz","22":"tag-steven-wilson","23":"tag-tampa-bay-rays","24":"tag-twins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116346156646421843","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662581","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=662581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}