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Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> (97-63, first in the AL East) vs. Philadelphia Phillies<\/a> (87-73, second in the NL East)<\/p>\n

Philadelphia; Saturday, 7:15 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Rays: Griffin Jax (0-0); Phillies: TBD<\/p>\n

LINE: Rays -115, Phillies -106; over\/under is 6 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Philadelphia Phillies host the Tampa Bay Rays looking to end a three-game home losing streak.<\/p>\n

Philadelphia has a 42-37 record at home and an 87-73 record overall. The Phillies have a 43-9 record in games when they did not give up a home run.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay has a 42-37 record in road games and a 97-63 record overall. The Rays have the eighth-ranked team slugging percentage in the AL at .399.<\/p>\n

The teams play Saturday for the second time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Bryce Harper<\/a> has 32 doubles, three triples, 28 home runs and 86 RBIs for the Phillies. Justin Crawford<\/a> is 7 for 28 with a double, a triple, a home run and five RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Junior Caminero<\/a> has 41 home runs, 78 walks and 99 RBIs while hitting .275 for the Rays. Chandler Simpson<\/a> is 13 for 39 with two doubles and five RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Phillies: 4-6, .195 batting average, 4.03 ERA, outscored by nine runs<\/p>\n

Rays: 6-4, .208 batting average, 2.90 ERA, outscored opponents by nine runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Phillies: Jonathan Bowlan: day-to-day (groin), Luis Arraez<\/a>: day-to-day (ankle), Caleb Kilian: 60-Day IL (oblique), Jesus Luzardo<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Felix Reyes<\/a>: 60-Day IL (wrist), Brad Keller<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Johan Rojas: 60-Day IL (elbow), Adolis Garcia<\/a>: 60-Day IL (lat)<\/p>\n

Rays: Chandler Simpson: day-to-day (foot), Gavin Lux: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Garrett Cleavinger: 15-Day IL (forearm), Jon Heasley: 60-Day IL (elbow), Shane McClanahan<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), Edwin Uceta<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Tyler Wells<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), Jacob Melton: 60-Day IL (hamstring), Ryan Pepiot<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hip)<\/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":"Tampa Bay Rays (97-63, first in the AL East) vs. Philadelphia Phillies (87-73, second in the NL East)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2377],"tags":[3418,5,7798,1207,457,6925,75686,29882,6,4682,5159,85,19,4,25,297,1956,5720,2550,68,2551,2549,1275],"class_list":["post-814599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa-bay-rays","tag-adolis-garcia","tag-baseball","tag-brad-keller","tag-bryce-harper","tag-chandler-simpson","tag-edwin-uceta","tag-event_preview","tag-felix-reyes","tag-jesus-luzardo","tag-junior-caminero","tag-justin-crawford","tag-luis-arraez","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-rays","tag-ryan-pepiot","tag-shane-mcclanahan","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-tampabay","tag-tampabayrays","tag-tyler-wells"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117336468597187311","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814599","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=814599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814599\/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=814599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}