{"id":697574,"date":"2026-05-13T04:48:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T04:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/697574\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T04:48:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T04:48:27","slug":"if-youre-reading-this-the-rays-won-rays-7-blue-jays-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/697574\/","title":{"rendered":"If you\u2019re reading this, the Rays won: Rays 7, Blue Jays 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Death, taxes, and the Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> defeating the Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> in the year 2026.<\/p>\n

Drake\u2019s 15th project, Iceman, is set to debut May 15, and Shane McClanahan<\/a> sure had Blue Jays<\/a> bats frozen Tuesday evening in \u201cThe 6ix\u201d, as McClanahan went five innings, allowing only one hit and one walk while striking out seven.<\/p>\n

That 97 MPH fastball was the final pitch of his outing and also extended his career-long scoreless innings streak to 21.2, and his season ERA down to 2.27. \u2018Sugar Shane\u2019 might be back, folks.<\/p>\n

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As far as the run support, the Rays jumped on Blue Jays southpaw Patrick Corbin<\/a> early.<\/p>\n

In the first inning, Jonathan Aranda<\/a> singled, followed by a Junior Caminero<\/a> single, and Jonny DeLuca<\/a> driving in Aranda with a two out RBI double. 1-0 Flappy Boys.<\/p>\n

In the third inning, Caminero singled, Ben Williamson<\/a> doubled, and Cedric Mullins<\/a> delivered with two outs with a two-run single of his own to give the Rays a 3-0 lead.<\/p>\n

In the sixth, Taylor Walls<\/a> scored on a wild pitch from Tommy Nance<\/a>, and in the seventh, \u2018The Rig\u2019 Ryan Vilade<\/a> homered to extend the lead to 5-0.<\/p>\n

Once we got to the bottom half of the seventh, things got scary.<\/p>\n

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Toronto would not only bat around, but tie the game to make it 5-5.<\/p>\n

The bullpen would hold them there, and the game went to extras.<\/p>\n

Cedric Mullins would act as the ghost runner in the 10th, and Taylor Walls would drive him in via, you guessed it, a single.<\/p>\n

And who else but Aranda to drive him in vis the sacrifice fly to give the Rays the lead.<\/p>\n

Garrett Cleavinger<\/a> entered in the bottom of the 10th to shut the door for good, as Toronto would score once more. Andres Gimenez<\/a> grounded out to Junior Caminero, who had two errors on the evening, to end the game 7-6.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay<\/a> is now 19-3 against the American League, and remains the top dog in the junior circuit.<\/p>\n

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The Rays and Jays will do it again from Rogers Centre on Wednesday, cumulating a stretch of 13 games straight, starting at 7:07 PM EST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Death, taxes, and the Tampa Bay Rays defeating the Toronto Blue Jays in the year 2026. Drake\u2019s 15th…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2377],"tags":[2043,5,4806,377,77,1099,380,307,1398,4682,4,444,297,3377,18332,15420,5720,2550,68,2551,2549,5521,1966,31700,70],"class_list":["post-697574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa-bay-rays","tag-andres-gimenez","tag-baseball","tag-ben-williamson","tag-blue-jays","tag-cedric-mullins","tag-garrett-cleavinger","tag-jeff-hoffman","tag-jonathan-aranda","tag-jonny-deluca","tag-junior-caminero","tag-mlb","tag-patrick-corbin","tag-rays","tag-rob-friedman","tag-ryan-vilade","tag-scoreless-innings-streak","tag-shane-mcclanahan","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-tampabay","tag-tampabayrays","tag-taylor-walls","tag-the-rays","tag-tommy-nance","tag-toronto-blue-jays"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116565462781941436","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697574","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=697574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}