{"id":735948,"date":"2026-06-26T09:54:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T09:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/735948\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T09:54:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T09:54:33","slug":"royals-jensen-homers-off-kimbrel-to-break-up-rays-combined-no-hitter-in-the-ninth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/735948\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals’ Jensen homers off Kimbrel to break up Rays’ combined no-hitter in the ninth"},"content":{"rendered":"

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) \u2014 The Tampa Bay Rays lost a combined no-hitter against the Kansas City Royals when Carter Jensen hit a two-run homer off Craig Kimbrel in the ninth inning on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Opener Casey Legumina retired all four batters he faced through 1 1\/3 innings before Ian Seymour took over in the second. Seymour struck out seven batters. Kimbrel started the ninth and allowed a walk to Starling Marte before Jensen went deep with one out.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay was leading Kansas City 13-0 to start the ninth behind a franchise record-tying three home runs by Junior Caminero, who drove in six runs in the 13-2 win<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Rays retired the first 16 batters they faced before Marte drew a one-out walk on a full count in the top of the sixth before Seymour retired Tyler Tolbert and 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. Simpson also caught a hard line drive off the bat of Ian Collins to end the eighth.<\/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

This would have been the second no-hitter in the majors this year, following the Astros\u2019 combined no-hitter against the Rangers on May 25<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Kimbrel himself finished a combined no-hitter for the Chicago Cubs<\/a> against the Los Angeles Dodgers on June 24, 2021, at Dodger Stadium.<\/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

___<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) \u2014 The Tampa Bay Rays lost a combined no-hitter against the Kansas City Royals…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[5,847,4290,182,91575,21295,9215,4682,936,2123,55,2596,2595,7093,24976,3736,4,256,7094,3923,252,373,185,1420,68,69,1907],"class_list":["post-735948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kansas-city-royals","tag-baseball","tag-craig-kimbrel","tag-fl-state-wire","tag-florida","tag-ian-collins","tag-ian-seymour","tag-jon-lester","tag-junior-caminero","tag-kansas","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kansascity","tag-kansascityroyals","tag-ks-state-wire","tag-matt-garza","tag-missouri","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-mo-state-wire","tag-reid-detmers","tag-royals","tag-salvador-perez","tag-sports","tag-starling-marte","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-texas-rangers","tag-tyler-tolbert"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116815807366282835","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735948","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=735948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}