TAMPA, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Austin Wynns hit a sacrifice fly in the 10th inning and the Athletics handed the Tampa Bay Rays a 4-3 loss on Tuesday night, their third straight.<\/p>\n
The Rays’ last three-game skid came against the the Phillies at home in early May and they have now lost four of five to last-place teams.<\/p>\n
Colby Thomas, who got his first career hit earlier, started the 10th on second base and was sacrificed to third by Denzel Clarke.<\/p>\n
No. 9 hitter Max Schuemann, who was starting in place of Jacob Wilson, the second-leading hitter in the majors who was a late scratch with a sore right hamstring, worked Mason Montgomery (1-2) for a walk ahead of pinch-hitter Wynns.<\/p>\n
Michael Kelly (2-0) got the win despite allowing two singles and throwing a wild pitch in the ninth. Mason Miller earned his 17th save, although he intentionally walked Jonathan Aranda with two outs and then threw a wild pitch to advance the runners before striking out Brandon Lowe.<\/p>\n
Max Muncy hit a two-run homer in the fourth and Shea Langeliers had a solo shot in the sixth for the A’s. Christopher Morel, Lowe and Danny Jansen homered for the Rays.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay starter Shane Baz went seven innings, allowing five hits and matching his career high 11 strikeouts with just one walk.<\/p>\n
Key moment<\/p>\n
Jos\u00e9 Caballero, who stole his 30th base in the second inning, singled to lead off the ninth but was thrown out at second by Langeliers on the next pitch.<\/p>\n
Key stat<\/p>\n
With wins in the first two games of the three-game series, the A’s have won a series against the Rays for the first time since April 2022. Tampa Bay had won eight-straight home series.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay RHP Ryan Pepiot (5-6, 3.36 ERA) is scheduled to start on Wednesday against the Athletics’ RHP Mitch Spence (2-3, 3.83).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Austin Wynns hit a sacrifice fly in the 10th inning and the Athletics handed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5105],"tags":[1251,62,5,189,40,4,6726,43,187,540,92,6727,5168,5167],"class_list":{"0":"post-105980","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-lightning","8":"tag-associated-press","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-lightning","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-professional-baseball","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-tampa","17":"tag-tampa-bay","18":"tag-tampa-bay-lightning","19":"tag-tampa-bay-rays","20":"tag-tampabay","21":"tag-tampabaylightning"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/114783022357001397","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}