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San Francisco Giants<\/a> (13-18, fifth in the NL West) vs. Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> (18-12, second in the AL East)<\/p>\n

St. Petersburg, Florida; Friday, 7:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Giants: Robbie Ray<\/a> (2-3, 2.70 ERA, 1.14 WHIP, 35 strikeouts); Rays: Shane McClanahan<\/a> (2-2, 3.91 ERA, 1.26 WHIP, 25 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Rays -135, Giants +113; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Tampa Bay Rays will try to keep a four-game home win streak alive when they face the San Francisco Giants.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay is 8-4 at home and 18-12 overall. The Rays are 13-3 in games when they scored at least five runs.<\/p>\n

San Francisco has a 6-9 record on the road and a 13-18 record overall. The Giants are 12-5 in games when they have more hits than their opponents.<\/p>\n

The matchup Friday is the first meeting this season between the two teams.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Junior Caminero<\/a> leads the Rays with eight home runs while slugging .487. Jonathan Aranda<\/a> is 7 for 35 with four home runs and nine RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Luis Arraez<\/a> has three doubles and two triples for the Giants. Jung Hoo Lee<\/a> is 14 for 36 with two doubles, a triple and a home run over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Rays: 6-4, .225 batting average, 3.48 ERA, outscored opponents by two runs<\/p>\n

Giants: 4-6, .235 batting average, 3.60 ERA, outscored by eight runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Rays: Joe Boyle<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Gavin Lux: 10-Day IL (shoulder), Garrett Cleavinger: 15-Day IL (calf), Edwin Uceta<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Ryan Pepiot<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hip), Steven Wilson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (back), Manuel Rodriguez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Mason Englert: 15-Day IL (forearm), Michael Grove<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n

Giants: Jared Oliva<\/a>: 60-Day IL (wrist), Harrison Bader<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Joel Peguero<\/a>: 15-Day IL (hamstring), Sam Hentges<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Daniel Susac: 10-Day IL (elbow), Jose Butto: 60-Day IL (arm), Reiver Sanmartin: 60-Day IL (hip), Hayden Birdsong: 60-Day IL (forearm), Jason Foley<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Randy Rodriguez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Rowan Wick<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/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":"San Francisco Giants (13-18, fifth in the NL West) vs. Tampa Bay Rays (18-12, second in the AL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2377],"tags":[5,6925,75686,365,59032,540,12626,44621,307,375,4682,85,19,1095,7908,4,12859,297,1822,70335,1956,9115,66,5720,4274,2550,68,2551,2549],"class_list":{"0":"post-687416","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-edwin-uceta","10":"tag-event_preview","11":"tag-harrison-bader","12":"tag-jared-oliva","13":"tag-jason-foley","14":"tag-joe-boyle","15":"tag-joel-peguero","16":"tag-jonathan-aranda","17":"tag-jung-hoo-lee","18":"tag-junior-caminero","19":"tag-luis-arraez","20":"tag-major-league-baseball","21":"tag-manuel-rodriguez","22":"tag-michael-grove","23":"tag-mlb","24":"tag-randy-rodriguez","25":"tag-rays","26":"tag-robbie-ray","27":"tag-rowan-wick","28":"tag-ryan-pepiot","29":"tag-sam-hentges","30":"tag-san-francisco-giants","31":"tag-shane-mcclanahan","32":"tag-steven-wilson","33":"tag-tampa-bay","34":"tag-tampa-bay-rays","35":"tag-tampabay","36":"tag-tampabayrays"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116498580327948571","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687416","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=687416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687416\/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=687416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}