{"id":742553,"date":"2026-07-04T03:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T03:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/742553\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T03:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T03:00:15","slug":"fortes-caminero-hit-hrs-rays-beat-astros-3-1-for-9th-straight-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/742553\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortes, Caminero hit HRs, Rays beat Astros 3-1 for 9th straight win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Nick Fortes homered and hit a run-scoring double, Junior Caminero added a solo shot, and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Houston Astros 3-1 on Friday night to extend the longest active win streak in the major leagues to nine games.<\/p>\n<p>The Rays have homered in a season-high eight consecutive games. Tampa Bay had its streak of nine straight games scoring at least four runs snapped.<\/p>\n<p>Steven Okert (1-1) replaced starter Spencer Arrighetti to begin the seventh and struck out Jonathan Aranda swinging before Caminero hit a 1-1 slider <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLB\/status\/2073225065806606774\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\">over the wall in left<\/a> field to give the Rays a 2-1 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Kelly (5-3) pitched 1 2\/3 innings of no-hit relief for the win.<\/p>\n<p>Bryan Baker pitched a 1-2-3 ninth for 23rd save this season.<\/p>\n<p>Yordan Alvarez hit his American League-leading 27th home run this season, a 427-foot shot off Rays starter Nick Martinez in the sixth that made it 1-1. Philadelphia&#8217;s Kyle Schwarber leads MLB with 30 homers.<\/p>\n<p>Caminero has 25 homer runs, tied with Minnesota&#8217;s Byron Buxton for second in the AL. The 22-year-old Caminero had a string of six consecutive games with a homer snapped Thursday in a 5-2 win at Kansas City<\/p>\n<p>Fortes hit a two-out solo shot, his second this season, in the sixth inning that opened the scoring.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay&#8217;s Cedric Mullins went 0 for 4 and snapped his career-long streak of reaching base in 25 straight starts.<\/p>\n<p>Arrighetti gave up a run and two hits.<\/p>\n<p>Rays RHP Drew Rasmussen (7-4, 2.45 ERA) starts Saturday against RHP Hunter Brown (1-0, 1.78) in the second of a three-game series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Nick Fortes homered and hit a run-scoring double, Junior Caminero added a solo shot, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":742554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2389],"tags":[42,5,13151,2223,77,1999,139,54,3211,1328,307,4682,16408,81,4,2145,761,9500,9501,9496,9497,22871,9499,92269,4678,9278,2264],"class_list":["post-742553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston-astros","tag-astros","tag-baseball","tag-bryan-baker","tag-byron-buxton","tag-cedric-mullins","tag-drew-rasmussen","tag-houston","tag-houston-astros","tag-houstonastros","tag-hunter-brown","tag-jonathan-aranda","tag-junior-caminero","tag-kevin-kelly","tag-kyle-schwarber","tag-mlb","tag-nick-fortes","tag-nick-martinez","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40780-ap-florida-sports-only","tag-product-40815-ap-texas-sports-only","tag-rays-astros-score","tag-spencer-arrighetti","tag-steven-okert","tag-yordan-alvarez"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742553","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=742553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}