{"id":770395,"date":"2026-08-05T05:39:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T05:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/770395\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T05:39:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T05:39:16","slug":"peralta-roughed-up-in-rays-debut-but-hicks-hits-grand-slam-and-tampa-bay-rallies-past-rockies-in-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/770395\/","title":{"rendered":"Peralta roughed up in Rays debut but Hicks hits grand slam and Tampa Bay rallies past Rockies in 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DENVER (AP) \u2014 Ben Williamson scored the tiebreaking run on a wild pitch in the 11th inning and Junior Caminero added a two-out RBI single as Tampa Bay rallied to beat Colorado 9-7 on Tuesday night after the Rockies roughed up Freddy Peralta in his Rays debut.<\/p>\n<p>Williamson, the automatic runner at second base, went to third on a sacrifice bunt by Taylor Walls and scampered home on a wild pitch by Nick Frasso (0-1), who was making his major league debut. That gave Tampa Bay an 8-7 lead before Yandy Diaz doubled and scored on Caminero&#8217;s single.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Aranda hit a two-run single off Rockies closer Jordan Romano to tie it at 7 in the ninth.<\/p>\n<p>Liam Hicks launched a grand slam in his Rays debut off rookie Gabriel Hughes to give Peralta a 5-1 lead in the third. Hicks was acquired from Miami at the trade deadline Monday. The catcher&#8217;s 15th homer was the first slam for Tampa Bay this season.<\/p>\n<p>Peralta lasted just 3 2\/3 innings, allowing seven runs and nine hits. He went 5-9 with a 4.99 ERA before coming over from the Mets in a trade Sunday. The two-time All-Star was 0-4 in his final seven starts for New York and hasn\u2019t won since pitching five innings in an 8-1 victory over the Braves on June 14.<\/p>\n<p>Mickey Moniak homered and drove in four runs for Colorado. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Rockies\/status\/2084818979546398937?s=20\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\">Willi Castro<\/a> added his career-high 13th homer \u2014 a two-run shot that put the Rockies up 7-5 in the fourth.<\/p>\n<p>Hughes gave up five runs and four hits in 5 1\/3 innings with two walks and seven strikeouts in his fifth start.<\/p>\n<p>Garrett Cleavinger (4-3) got the final two outs in the 10th for the win and Bryan Baker struck out two in a scoreless 11th for his 32nd save in 35 opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Rays RHP Nick Martinez (10-3, 2.77 ERA) starts Wednesday opposite Rockies RHP Tomoyuki Sugano (11-4, 4.47).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER (AP) \u2014 Ben Williamson scored the tiebreaking run on a wild pitch in the 11th inning and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2405],"tags":[5,4806,13151,167,52,4316,753,16903,1099,307,1098,4682,7728,778,3568,4,14488,761,9500,9501,9496,9497,83038,22871,95154,168,5521,129,3348],"class_list":["post-770395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-colorado-rockies","tag-baseball","tag-ben-williamson","tag-bryan-baker","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-rockies","tag-coloradorockies","tag-freddy-peralta","tag-gabriel-hughes","tag-garrett-cleavinger","tag-jonathan-aranda","tag-jordan-romano","tag-junior-caminero","tag-liam-hicks","tag-miami","tag-mickey-moniak","tag-mlb","tag-nick-frasso","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-40777-ap-colorado-sports-only","tag-product-40780-ap-florida-sports-only","tag-rays-rockies-score-peralta-hicks-moniak","tag-rockies","tag-taylor-walls","tag-willi-castro","tag-yandy-diaz"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770395","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=770395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}