ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 Shane McClanahan turned in five scoreless innings to get his first win at Tropicana Field in nearly three years as the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Minnesota Twins 6-1 on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Returning from two surgeries that cost him the 2024 and 2025 seasons, the left-hander scattered three hits and struck out seven.<\/p>\n
Kevin Kelly, Hunter Bigge and Trevor Martin finishing up for McClanahan (2-2).<\/p>\n
Bailey Ober (2-1) was solid for Minnesota, allowing two runs on three hits over six innings, but it was not enough against a Rays offense that has won six straight games when outhomering its opponent.<\/p>\n
Jake Fraley provided the early run support, connecting for a two-run home run in the fourth inning, his second of the season. The Rays added four more runs late, capped by a Ben Williamson RBI double in the eighth.<\/p>\n
Williamson finished with a single, double and triple.<\/p>\n
The win was the third straight for the Rays, who are 3-1 against Minnesota in the season series. The Twins have lost four straight and eight of their last nine.<\/p>\n
McClanahan had not won at Tropicana Field since June 11, 2023.<\/p>\n
His elbow gave out that August, requiring his second Tommy John surgery. A nerve issue during rehabilitation required additional surgery, wiping out the following two seasons entirely. He took a no-decision April 6 against the Cubs in his only other home appearance this season.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
The Twins will send Simeon Woods Richardson (0-3, 5.96) to the mound Sunday while Tampa Bay counters with Jesse Scholtens (1-1, 2.93 ERA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 Shane McClanahan turned in five scoreless innings to get his first win at Tropicana…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":683057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2388],"tags":[5,822,60,3190,4,148,4686],"class_list":{"0":"post-683056","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-twins","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-minnesota","10":"tag-minnesota-twins","11":"tag-minnesotatwins","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-twins","14":"tag-uncategorized"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116469439099668030","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683056","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=683056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}