ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) \u2014 A pair of Tampa Bay Rays pitchers combined for seven no-hit innings against the Kansas City Royals on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Opener Casey Legumina retired all five batters he faced through 1 1\/3 innings before Ian Seymour took over in the second. Seymour has struck out six batters.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay was leading Kansas City 7-0 behind a pair of home runs by Junior Caminero.<\/p>\n
The Rays retired the first 16 batters they faced before Starling Marte drew a one-out walk on a full count in the top of the sixth before Seymour retired Tyler Tolbert and Carter Jensen to end the inning.<\/p>\n
Left fielder Chandler Simpson made a running catch near the foul pole to track down a fly ball off the bat of Salvador Perez in the fifth to keep the perfect game intact.<\/p>\n
The Rays have never thrown a perfect game in franchise history. Matt Garza has the only no-hitter in Tampa Bay history on July 26, 2010, against the Detroit Tigers.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay has been no-hit six times in franchise history, the most recent on May 10, 2022, against the Los Angeles Angels\u2019 Reid Detmers. The last time Kansas City was no-hit was May 19, 2008, against Boston\u2019s Jon Lester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) \u2014 A pair of Tampa Bay Rays pitchers combined for seven no-hit innings against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2377],"tags":[5,21295,9215,4682,24976,4,9501,9496,22871,83589,82856,297,3923,91534,373,1420,2550,68,2551,2549,1907],"class_list":["post-735393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa-bay-rays","tag-baseball","tag-ian-seymour","tag-jon-lester","tag-junior-caminero","tag-matt-garza","tag-mlb","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-40780-ap-florida-sports-only","tag-product-40787-ap-kansas-sports-only","tag-product-40795-ap-missouri-sports-only","tag-rays","tag-reid-detmers","tag-royals-rays-nohitter","tag-salvador-perez","tag-starling-marte","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-tampabay","tag-tampabayrays","tag-tyler-tolbert"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116812056062170525","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735393","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=735393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}