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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Craig Kimbrel pitched a scoreless inning in his debut for the Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> on Tuesday night, a few hours after the right-handed reliever was signed to a major league contract.<\/p>\n

The 37-year-old Kimbrel came on in the eighth inning of the Rays\u2019 6-1 loss<\/a> to the Baltimore Orioles. He struck out Leody Taveras and Jeremiah Jackson before giving up a single on a soft grounder by Colton Cowser. Kimbrel then retired Blaze Alexander on a groundout.<\/p>\n

The Rays placed right-hander Jesse Scholtens on the 15-day injured list with a right wrist strain to make room for Kimbrel on the active roster.<\/p>\n

The New York Mets<\/a> designated Kimbrel for assignment last Friday after the nine-time All-Star allowed 10 runs over 15 innings in 14 appearances. He signed a free agent contract with the team in January.<\/p>\n

Kimbrel has 440 saves with 10 teams in his 17-year career. He won a World Series with Boston in 2018 and was the 2011 NL Rookie of the Year.<\/p>\n

The Rays have the AL\u2019s best record at 34-18, but their bullpen\u2019s ERA of 4.40 entering Tuesday night ranked 21st in the majors.<\/p>\n

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AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/MLB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Craig Kimbrel pitched a scoreless inning in his debut for the Tampa Bay Rays…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2377],"tags":[47,5,30643,1125,847,4290,182,13459,4158,2170,4,256,61,297,185,2550,68,2551,2549],"class_list":["post-709992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa-bay-rays","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-baseball","tag-blaze-alexander","tag-colton-cowser","tag-craig-kimbrel","tag-fl-state-wire","tag-florida","tag-jeremiah-jackson","tag-jesse-scholtens","tag-leody-taveras","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-new-york-mets","tag-rays","tag-sports","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-tampabay","tag-tampabayrays"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116645812223002438","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709992","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=709992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}