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San Francisco Giants<\/a> (13-19, fifth in the NL West) vs. Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> (19-12, second in the AL East)<\/p>\n

St. Petersburg, Florida; Saturday, 6:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Giants: Landen Roupp<\/a> (5-1, 2.55 ERA, 0.91 WHIP, 37 strikeouts); Rays: Griffin Jax (1-2, 6.35 ERA, 1.68 WHIP, 12 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Giants -116, Rays -104; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The San Francisco Giants head into the matchup with the Tampa Bay Rays as losers of four games in a row.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay has gone 9-4 in home games and 19-12 overall. The Rays have a 14-3 record in games when they record eight or more hits.<\/p>\n

San Francisco has a 13-19 record overall and a 6-10 record in road games. The Giants have a 9-1 record in games when they scored five or more runs.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Saturday for the second time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Yandy Diaz<\/a> has three doubles, a triple and five home runs for the Rays. Chandler Simpson<\/a> is 10 for 37 with a double over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Luis Arraez<\/a> has a .303 batting average to lead the Giants, and has four doubles and two triples. Jung Hoo Lee<\/a> is 15 for 36 with a home run and three RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Rays: 7-3, .225 batting average, 2.83 ERA, outscored opponents by eight runs<\/p>\n

Giants: 4-6, .230 batting average, 3.60 ERA, outscored by eight runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Rays: Yandy Diaz: day-to-day (oblique), Gavin Lux: 10-Day IL (shoulder), Garrett Cleavinger: 15-Day IL (calf), Ryan Pepiot<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hip), Joe Boyle<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Edwin Uceta<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), 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), Daniel Susac: 10-Day IL (elbow), Sam Hentges<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Joel Peguero<\/a>: 15-Day IL (hamstring), 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 (13-19, fifth in the NL West) vs. Tampa Bay Rays (19-12, second in the AL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2377],"tags":[5,457,6925,75686,365,59032,540,12626,44621,375,2005,85,19,1095,7908,4,12859,297,70335,1956,9115,66,4274,2550,68,2551,2549,3348],"class_list":["post-688425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-tampa-bay-rays","tag-baseball","tag-chandler-simpson","tag-edwin-uceta","tag-event_preview","tag-harrison-bader","tag-jared-oliva","tag-jason-foley","tag-joe-boyle","tag-joel-peguero","tag-jung-hoo-lee","tag-landen-roupp","tag-luis-arraez","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-manuel-rodriguez","tag-michael-grove","tag-mlb","tag-randy-rodriguez","tag-rays","tag-rowan-wick","tag-ryan-pepiot","tag-sam-hentges","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-steven-wilson","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-tampabay","tag-tampabayrays","tag-yandy-diaz"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116505253212587571","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688425","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=688425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}