\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Tampa Bay Rays closed out the weekend in style Sunday afternoon, beating the Miami Marlins in St. Petersburg to claim the three-game series.Junior Caminero and Yandy D\u00edaz homered, and the Tampa Bay Rays earned their 18th win in their past 22 games with a 6-3 victory.Tampa Bay entered the day at 29-15 overall and 15-5 at home.The Rays had a steady presence against a Miami team that has struggled on the road all year. The Marlins were trying to lean on Eury Perez, but Tampa Bay\u2019s lineup continued to show why it has been so dangerous. Rays hitters have consistently gotten on base at one of the best rates in the majors, and that pressure helped them take control of the series finale.Caminero hit his 12th home run of the season in the first inning, a solo shot to left field. D\u00edaz’s solo home run came in the fifth inning for the Rays, who won two of three in the series.Drew Rasmussen (4-1) gave up two runs and seven hits in 5 1\/3 innings for the Rays. Bryan Baker earned his 12th save of the season.The Rays also carried momentum into Sunday, having gone 7-3 in their last 10 while outscoring opponents by 11 runs.Trailing 2-1, the Rays loaded the bases in the fourth inning against Marlins starter Eury P\u00e9rez (2-6). D\u00edaz led off with a walk, Jonny DeLuca doubled without, and Cedric Mullins walked. After Nick Fortes grounded into a fielder’s choice, Taylor Walls hit a bases-clearing RBI triple to make it 4-2.Caminero drew a bases-loaded walk in the sixth, scoring Mullins to make it 6-2.Xavier Edwards and Otto Lopez hit RBI singles in the third inning for the Marlins. Kyle Stowers added an RBI single in the eighth.P\u00e9rez allowed five runs and five hits with five strikeouts in five innings.By the end of the afternoon, the Rays had done exactly what they set out to do \u2014 defend home turf, win the game, and take the three-game series from the Marlins. Up next Rays: host Baltimore on Monday to begin a three-game series. LHP Shane McClanahan (4-2, 2.27) will start for the Rays. LHP Trevor Rogers (2-4, 5.77) will start for the Orioles.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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The Tampa Bay Rays closed out the weekend in style Sunday afternoon, beating the Miami Marlins in St. Petersburg to claim the three-game series.<\/p>\n
Junior Caminero and Yandy D\u00edaz homered, and the Tampa Bay Rays earned their 18th win in their past 22 games with a 6-3 victory.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay entered the day at 29-15 overall and 15-5 at home.<\/p>\n
The Rays had a steady presence against a Miami team that has struggled on the road all year. <\/p>\n
The Marlins were trying to lean on Eury Perez, but Tampa Bay\u2019s lineup continued to show why it has been so dangerous. <\/p>\n
Rays hitters have consistently gotten on base at one of the best rates in the majors, and that pressure helped them take control of the series finale.<\/p>\n
Caminero hit his 12th home run of the season in the first inning, a solo shot to left field. D\u00edaz’s solo home run came in the fifth inning for the Rays, who won two of three in the series.<\/p>\n
Drew Rasmussen (4-1) gave up two runs and seven hits in 5 1\/3 innings for the Rays. Bryan Baker earned his 12th save of the season.<\/p>\n
The Rays also carried momentum into Sunday, having gone 7-3 in their last 10 while outscoring opponents by 11 runs.<\/p>\n
Trailing 2-1, the Rays loaded the bases in the fourth inning against Marlins starter Eury P\u00e9rez (2-6). D\u00edaz led off with a walk, Jonny DeLuca doubled without, and Cedric Mullins walked. After Nick Fortes grounded into a fielder’s choice, Taylor Walls hit a bases-clearing RBI triple to make it 4-2.<\/p>\n
Caminero drew a bases-loaded walk in the sixth, scoring Mullins to make it 6-2.<\/p>\n
Xavier Edwards and Otto Lopez hit RBI singles in the third inning for the Marlins. Kyle Stowers added an RBI single in the eighth.<\/p>\n
P\u00e9rez allowed five runs and five hits with five strikeouts in five innings.<\/p>\n
By the end of the afternoon, the Rays had done exactly what they set out to do \u2014 defend home turf, win the game, and take the three-game series from the Marlins. <\/p>\n
Up next <\/p>\n
Rays: host Baltimore on Monday to begin a three-game series. LHP Shane McClanahan (4-2, 2.27) will start for the Rays. LHP Trevor Rogers (2-4, 5.77) will start for the Orioles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tampa Bay Rays closed out the weekend in style Sunday afternoon, beating the Miami Marlins in St.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2377],"tags":[21801,5,6920,3930,4682,58,4,1753,297,7800,3215,1479,1646,2550,68,2551,2549,9118,3256,3348],"class_list":["post-701640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa-bay-rays","tag-12th-home-run","tag-baseball","tag-fifth-inning","tag-hit","tag-junior-caminero","tag-miami-marlins","tag-mlb","tag-otto-lopez","tag-rays","tag-rbi-single","tag-run","tag-season","tag-series","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-tampabay","tag-tampabayrays","tag-three-game-series","tag-walk","tag-yandy-diaz"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116591957370776026","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701640","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=701640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}