{"id":760303,"date":"2026-07-24T15:15:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T15:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/760303\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T15:15:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T15:15:17","slug":"guardians-visit-the-rays-to-begin-3-game-series-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/760303\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardians visit the Rays to begin 3-game series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(AP) \u2014 The Tampa Bay Rays host the Cleveland Guardians to open a three-game series.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay has a 59-43 record overall and a 35-15 record at home. The Rays have gone 23-5 in games when they hit at least two home runs.<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland has a 27-24 record on the road and a 54-50 record overall. The Guardians have the eighth-best team ERA in MLB play at 3.71.<\/p>\n<p>The teams play Friday for the fourth time this season.<\/p>\n<p>TOP PERFORMERS: Junior Caminero has 16 doubles and 29 home runs while hitting .287 for the Rays. Victor Mesa Jr. is 11 for 31 with a double and five home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>Jose Ramirez has 18 doubles, 10 home runs and 35 RBIs for the Guardians. Rhys Hoskins is 5 for 30 with four home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>LAST 10 GAMES: Rays: 4-6, .259 batting average, 4.24 ERA, outscored by three runs<\/p>\n<p>Guardians: 6-4, .273 batting average, 3.10 ERA, outscored opponents by three runs<\/p>\n<p>INJURIES: Rays: Taylor Walls: day-to-day (finger), Gavin Lux: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jake Fraley: 10-Day IL (groin), Steven Wilson: 60-Day IL (back), Manuel Rodriguez: 60-Day IL (elbow), Steven Matz: 15-Day IL (ankle), Jon Heasley: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ryan Pepiot: 60-Day IL (hip), Edwin Uceta: 60-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n<p>Guardians: Angel Martinez: 10-Day IL (foot), Tim Herrin: 15-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(AP) \u2014 The Tampa Bay Rays host the Cleveland Guardians to open a three-game series. Tampa Bay has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":760304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2380],"tags":[4367,1769,5,135,51,2565,538,4],"class_list":["post-760303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cleveland-guardians","tag-ap","tag-associated-press","tag-baseball","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-clevelandguardians","tag-guardians","tag-mlb"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116975614248269846","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760303","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=760303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}