ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Junior Caminero and Yandy D\u00edaz homered and the Tampa Bay Rays earned their 18th win in their past 22 games with a 6-3 victory over the Miami Marlins on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Caminero hit his 12th home run of the season in the first inning, a solo shot to left field. D\u00edaz’s solo home run came in the fifth inning for the Rays, who won two of three in the series.<\/p>\n
Drew Rasmussen (4-1) gave up two runs and seven hits in 5 1\/3 innings for the Rays. Bryan Baker earned his 12th save of the season.<\/p>\n
Trailing 2-1, the Rays loaded the bases in the fourth inning against Marlins starter Eury P\u00e9rez (2-6). D\u00edaz led off with a walk, Jonny DeLuca doubled with out and Cedric Mullins walked. After Nick Fortes grounded into a fielder’s choice, Taylor Walls hit a bases-clearing RBI triple to make it 4-2.<\/p>\n
Caminero drew a bases-loaded walk in the sixth, scoring Mullins to make it 6-2.<\/p>\n
Xavier Edwards, Otto Lopez hit RBI singles in the third inning for the Marlins. Kyle Stowers added an RBI single in the eighth.<\/p>\n
P\u00e9rez allowed five runs and five hits with five strikeouts in five innings.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Marlins: host Atlanta on Monday in the start of a four-game series. RHP Max Meyer (3-0, 3.21 ERA) will start for the Marlins. The Braves have not yet announced their starter.<\/p>\n
Rays: host Baltimore on Monday to begin a three-game series. LHP Shane McClanahan (4-2, 2.27) will start for the Rays. LHP Trevor Rogers (2-4, 5.77) will start for the Orioles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Junior Caminero and Yandy D\u00edaz homered and the Tampa Bay Rays earned their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5105],"tags":[1250,1249,1251,62,5,189,40,4,1247,6726,43,86,187,540,92,6727,5168,5167],"class_list":["post-577557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa-bay-lightning","tag-app-professional-sports","tag-app-sports","tag-associated-press","tag-florida","tag-hockey","tag-lightning","tag-news","tag-nhl","tag-orlando","tag-professional-baseball","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-lightning","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-tampabay","tag-tampabaylightning"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116592901074597061","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577557","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=577557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}