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San Diego Padres<\/a> (72-63, second in the NL West) vs. Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> (80-54, first in the AL East)<\/p>\n

St. Petersburg, Florida; Saturday, 4:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Padres: Walker Buehler<\/a> (8-6, 4.63 ERA, 1.35 WHIP, 108 strikeouts); Rays: Nick Martinez<\/a> (13-4, 2.93 ERA, 1.10 WHIP, 87 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Rays -134, Padres +110; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Tampa Bay Rays play the San Diego Padres, leading the series 1-0.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay has an 80-54 record overall and a 44-23 record at home. Rays hitters are batting a collective .260, the highest team batting average in MLB<\/a> play.<\/p>\n

San Diego is 31-35 on the road and 72-63 overall. The Padres have gone 34-12 in games when they did not allow a home run.<\/p>\n

The matchup Saturday is the second time these teams square off this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Junior Caminero<\/a> has 20 doubles, a triple and 35 home runs for the Rays. Chandler Simpson<\/a> is 12 for 38 with a double over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Jackson Merrill<\/a> has 21 doubles, three triples, 22 home runs and 69 RBIs while hitting .241 for the Padres. Fernando Tatis Jr.<\/a> is 14 for 42 with three doubles and four home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Rays: 5-5, .245 batting average, 3.68 ERA, outscored by one run<\/p>\n

Padres: 5-5, .224 batting average, 2.20 ERA, outscored opponents by nine runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Rays: Cole Sulser: 15-Day IL (back), Jon Heasley: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ben Williamson<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Griffin Jax: 15-Day IL (elbow), Victor Mesa<\/a> Jr.: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Edwin Uceta<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Gavin Lux: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jake Fraley<\/a>: 60-Day IL (groin), Ryan Pepiot<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hip)<\/p>\n

Padres: Jeremiah Estrada: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Samad Taylor<\/a>: 10-Day IL (oblique), Lucas Giolito: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jason Adam: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Joe Musgrove: 60-Day IL (elbow), Miguel Andujar<\/a>: 10-Day IL (wrist), Nick Pivetta: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ramon Laureano<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hip), Bryan Hoeing: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/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":"San Diego Padres (72-63, second in the NL West) vs. Tampa Bay Rays (80-54, first in the AL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2377],"tags":[5,4806,457,6925,75686,920,871,1180,4682,19,4808,4,761,1495,297,1956,1335,18,2550,68,2551,2549,16204,115],"class_list":["post-791342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa-bay-rays","tag-baseball","tag-ben-williamson","tag-chandler-simpson","tag-edwin-uceta","tag-event_preview","tag-fernando-tatis-jr","tag-jackson-merrill","tag-jake-fraley","tag-junior-caminero","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-miguel-andujar","tag-mlb","tag-nick-martinez","tag-ramon-laureano","tag-rays","tag-ryan-pepiot","tag-samad-taylor","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-tampabay","tag-tampabayrays","tag-victor-mesa-jr","tag-walker-buehler"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117177853096747964","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791342","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=791342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}