{"id":666002,"date":"2026-04-06T06:45:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T06:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/666002\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T06:45:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T06:45:52","slug":"palacios-hits-2-run-homer-in-10th-inning-to-lift-rays-over-twins-4-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/666002\/","title":{"rendered":"Palacios hits 2-run homer in 10th inning to lift Rays over Twins 4-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richie Palacios hit a two-run homer in a three-run 10th inning, and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Minnesota Twins 4-1 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Junior Caminero also went deep for Tampa Bay, which concluded a nine-game, 11-day, season-opening road trip with the 900th career win for manager Kevin Cash.<\/p>\n<p>Leading off the extra inning, Palacios hit his first home run of the season to right field on the second pitch he saw from Justin Topa (0-1). A bases-loaded walk by Caminero scored another run.<\/p>\n<p>Bryan Baker (1-0) struck out two of the three batters he faced in the ninth inning for the win. Kevin Kelly earned his second save with a scoreless 10th.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Wallner homered for the Twins, who had just three hits for the second straight game, and are hitting .192 as a team.<\/p>\n<p>Caminero&#8217;s fourth-inning home run off Simeon Woods Richardson came on a pitch that was 1.14 feet above the ground, the third-lowest a Rays batter has homered on since Statcast began in 2015, behind only Corey Dickerson (0.82 feet on Oct. 1, 2016) and Brad Miller (1.08 feet on June 11, 2016).<\/p>\n<p>Woods Richardson allowed one earned run on five hits and struck out four in 6 2\/3 innings for Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Martinez pitched six innings of one-hit ball \u2014 Wallner&#8217;s second-inning home run \u2014 and struck out four for Tampa Bay. He is the first Rays pitcher since Jake Faria in 2017 to record a quality start in each of his first two outings with the team.<\/p>\n<p>Byron Buxton was hitless in four at-bats as Minnesota&#8217;s designated hitter extended his slump to 0 for 19. Buxton was hit in the right forearm by a pitch Friday and sat out Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Rays: Return to Tropicana Field Monday for the first time since Sept. 22, 2024, with LHP Shane McClanahan (0-1, 3.86) opposing Cubs&#8217; RHP Jameson Taillon (0-0, 0.00).<\/p>\n<p>Twins: RHP Joe Ryan (0-1, 4.82) is to face Detroit RHP Casey Mize (0-1, 1.50) to open a four-game home series Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Richie Palacios hit a two-run homer in a three-run 10th inning, and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2377],"tags":[5,19,60,4,297,2550,68,2551,2549],"class_list":{"0":"post-666002","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-major-league-baseball","10":"tag-minnesota-twins","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-rays","13":"tag-tampa-bay","14":"tag-tampa-bay-rays","15":"tag-tampabay","16":"tag-tampabayrays"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116356420976425881","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666002","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=666002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}