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New York Mets<\/a> (62-77, fifth in the NL East) vs. Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> (83-55, first in the AL East)<\/p>\n

St. Petersburg, Florida; Wednesday, 6:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Mets: Justin Hagenman<\/a> (0-0); Rays: Griffin Jax (0-0)<\/p>\n

LINE: Rays -167, Mets +135; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Tampa Bay Rays and New York Mets meet on Wednesday with the three-game series tied 1-1.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay is 83-55 overall and 47-24 at home. The Rays have a 20-13 record in games decided by one run.<\/p>\n

New York has a 30-38 record on the road and a 62-77 record overall. The Mets have hit 167 total home runs to rank 10th in the majors.<\/p>\n

Wednesday’s game is the third time these teams match up this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Chandler Simpson<\/a> leads the Rays with a .310 batting average, and has 14 doubles, six triples, 24 walks and 31 RBIs. Junior Caminero<\/a> is 14 for 38 with two home runs and seven RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Juan Soto<\/a> has eight doubles, two triples, 22 home runs and 54 RBIs for the Mets. Luis Torrens<\/a> is 6 for 22 with three home runs and five RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Rays: 7-3, .263 batting average, 2.27 ERA, outscored opponents by 14 runs<\/p>\n

Mets: 4-6, .235 batting average, 4.24 ERA, outscored by 12 runs<\/p>\n

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

Mets: Cionel Perez<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), Jorge Polanco<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ankle), Justin Hagenman: 60-Day IL (rib), Devin Williams<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Reed Garrett: 60-Day IL (elbow), Tylor Megill: 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":"New York Mets (62-77, fifth in the NL East) vs. Tampa Bay Rays (83-55, 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":[5,4806,457,8754,7882,83,6925,75686,1180,120,134,4682,25115,5214,19,4,61,297,1956,2550,68,2551,2549],"class_list":["post-794702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa-bay-rays","tag-baseball","tag-ben-williamson","tag-chandler-simpson","tag-cionel-perez","tag-cole-sulser","tag-devin-williams","tag-edwin-uceta","tag-event_preview","tag-jake-fraley","tag-jorge-polanco","tag-juan-soto","tag-junior-caminero","tag-justin-hagenman","tag-luis-torrens","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-mets","tag-rays","tag-ryan-pepiot","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-tampabay","tag-tampabayrays"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117200797271739570","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794702","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=794702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794702\/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=794702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}