{"id":735456,"date":"2026-06-25T19:45:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T19:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/735456\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T19:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T19:45:14","slug":"junior-caminero-hits-three-homers-against-kansas-city-royals-as-tampa-bay-rays-pitching-combine-pitch-no-hitter-into-ninth-in-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/735456\/","title":{"rendered":"Junior Caminero hits three homers against Kansas City Royals as Tampa Bay Rays pitching combine pitch no-hitter into ninth in victory"},"content":{"rendered":"

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Junior Caminero<\/a> hit three home runs and drove in six runs, Victor Mesa Jr.<\/a> added a three-run homer and three pitchers combined for 8 1\/3 no-hit innings to lead the Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> to a 13-2 victory against the Kansas City Royals<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Opener Casey Legumina<\/a> retired the first four batters before Ian Seymour<\/a> (4-1) took over in the second inning. The pair combined to retire the first 16 Kansas City batters before Starling Marte<\/a> drew a one-out walk in the sixth off Seymour.<\/p>\n

Craig Kimbrel<\/a> started the ninth with a walk to Marte, then struck out Tyler Tolbert<\/a> before allowing a two-run home run to Carter Jensen<\/a> to the right-field stands for the Royals\u2019 only hit of the game.<\/p>\n

The Rays salvaged a split of the four-game series after dropping the first two games.<\/p>\n

Tolbert, who started at shortstop for Kansas City, moved to the mound for the eighth inning, allowing five runs on six hits.<\/p>\n

Caminero tied a franchise record with his three home runs and registered his sixth career multi-homer game and second this season. He hit a two-run home run in the first inning and added a solo shot in the fifth, both off Seth Lugo<\/a> (3-5), before going deep off Tolbert in the ninth. Mesa hit a three-run shot to right field in the fourth.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay\u2019s Yandy Diaz<\/a> extended his hitting streak to nine games with a seventh-inning double.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Royals open a three-game series at the Chicago White Sox<\/a> on Friday, with both teams yet to announce a starter.<\/p>\n

Rays open a three-game series at home on Friday against Arizona with RHP Nick Martinez<\/a> (6-2, 2.73 ERA) set to start while the Diamondbacks had yet to announce their starter.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n

Erik Erlendsson, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Junior Caminero hit three home runs and drove in six runs, Victor Mesa…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[5,936,2123,55,2596,2595,4,252,185],"class_list":["post-735456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kansas-city-royals","tag-baseball","tag-kansas","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kansascity","tag-kansascityroyals","tag-mlb","tag-royals","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116812468935378193","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735456","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=735456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}