{"id":761821,"date":"2026-07-26T09:36:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T09:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/761821\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T09:36:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T09:36:19","slug":"guardians-look-to-end-4-game-losing-streak-take-on-the-rays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/761821\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardians look to end 4-game losing streak, take on the Rays"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cleveland Guardians<\/a> (54-52, second in the AL Central) vs. Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> (61-43, first in the AL East)<\/p>\n

St. Petersburg, Florida; Sunday, 12:15 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Guardians: Parker Messick<\/a> (8-5, 2.68 ERA, 1.05 WHIP, 116 strikeouts); Rays: Drew Rasmussen<\/a> (8-5, 3.28 ERA, 0.98 WHIP, 103 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Rays -140, Guardians +115; over\/under is 7 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Cleveland Guardians, on a four-game losing streak, play the Tampa Bay Rays.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay has a 61-43 record overall and a 37-15 record in home games. The Rays have the fifth-ranked team slugging percentage in the AL at .405.<\/p>\n

Cleveland is 54-52 overall and 27-26 in road games. The Guardians have a 39-18 record in games when they record at least eight hits.<\/p>\n

The matchup Sunday is the sixth time these teams meet this season. The Rays have a 4-1 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Jonathan Aranda<\/a> has 17 doubles and 14 home runs for the Rays. Victor Mesa Jr.<\/a> is 10 for 30 with a double and four home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Kyle Manzardo<\/a> ranks seventh on the Guardians with 21 extra base hits (nine doubles, a triple and 11 home runs). Rhys Hoskins<\/a> is 5 for 32 with four home runs and four RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Rays: 5-5, .280 batting average, 3.71 ERA, outscored opponents by nine runs<\/p>\n

Guardians: 4-6, .263 batting average, 4.15 ERA, outscored by 12 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Rays: Taylor Walls: day-to-day (finger), Jake Fraley<\/a>: 10-Day IL (groin), Manuel Rodriguez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Gavin Lux: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Steven Wilson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (back), Jon Heasley: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ryan Pepiot<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hip), Edwin Uceta<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n

Guardians: Shawn Armstrong: 15-Day IL (leg)<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cleveland Guardians (54-52, second in the AL Central) vs. Tampa Bay Rays (61-43, first in the AL East)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2380],"tags":[5,135,51,2565,1999,6925,75686,538,1180,307,1389,19,1095,4,34644,130,1956,4274,68,16204],"class_list":["post-761821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cleveland-guardians","tag-baseball","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-clevelandguardians","tag-drew-rasmussen","tag-edwin-uceta","tag-event_preview","tag-guardians","tag-jake-fraley","tag-jonathan-aranda","tag-kyle-manzardo","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-manuel-rodriguez","tag-mlb","tag-parker-messick","tag-rhys-hoskins","tag-ryan-pepiot","tag-steven-wilson","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-victor-mesa-jr"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116985605888748861","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761821","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=761821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}