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Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> (25-13, first in the AL East) vs. Boston Red Sox<\/a> (17-22, fourth in the AL East)<\/p>\n

Boston; Sunday, 1:35 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Rays: Nick Martinez<\/a> (3-1, 1.71 ERA, 1.02 WHIP, 28 strikeouts); Red Sox: Payton Tolle<\/a> (1-1, 2.04 ERA, 0.74 WHIP, 23 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

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LINE: Red Sox -129, Rays +109; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Boston Red Sox and Tampa Bay Rays play on Sunday with the winner claiming the three-game series.<\/p>\n

Boston has a 7-11 record at home and a 17-22 record overall. The Red Sox have an 11-4 record in games when they scored five or more runs.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay<\/a> is 11-9 in road games and 25-13 overall. The Rays have an 8-1 record in games decided by one run.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Sunday for the third time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Willson Contreras<\/a> has four doubles, eight home runs and 23 RBIs while hitting .259 for the Red Sox. Ceddanne Rafaela<\/a> is 11 for 39 with two home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

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Junior Caminero<\/a> leads the Rays with 13 extra base hits (three doubles and 10 home runs). Yandy Diaz<\/a> is 9 for 35 with a double, two home runs and five RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Red Sox: 5-5, .237 batting average, 3.34 ERA, outscored by three runs<\/p>\n

Rays: 8-2, .248 batting average, 1.31 ERA, outscored opponents by 17 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Red Sox: Roman Anthony<\/a>: 10-Day IL (wrist), Danny Coulombe<\/a>: 15-Day IL (cervical spasms), Patrick Sandoval<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ranger Suarez<\/a>: day-to-day (hamstring), Garrett Crochet<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Kutter Crawford<\/a>: 15-Day IL (wrist), Triston Casas<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee), Johan Oviedo<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Romy Gonzalez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Tanner Houck<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

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

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Rays (25-13, first in the AL East) vs. Boston Red Sox (17-22, fourth in the AL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2377],"tags":[5,48,1396,7792,6925,922,730,12626,5416,4682,791,1095,7908,4,761,14123,3973,90,297,793,1083,1956,1555,4274,2550,68,2551,2549,4913,1966,1946,409,3348],"class_list":["post-695094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa-bay-rays","tag-baseball","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-ceddanne-rafaela","tag-danny-coulombe","tag-edwin-uceta","tag-garrett-crochet","tag-gavin-lux","tag-joe-boyle","tag-johan-oviedo","tag-junior-caminero","tag-kutter-crawford","tag-manuel-rodriguez","tag-michael-grove","tag-mlb","tag-nick-martinez","tag-patrick-sandoval","tag-payton-tolle","tag-ranger-suarez","tag-rays","tag-roman-anthony","tag-romy-gonzalez","tag-ryan-pepiot","tag-steven-matz","tag-steven-wilson","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-tampabay","tag-tampabayrays","tag-tanner-houck","tag-the-rays","tag-triston-casas","tag-willson-contreras","tag-yandy-diaz"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116549395655290274","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695094","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=695094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}