MLB

Tampa Bay Rays at San Diego Padres

· Major League Baseball
Tampa Bay Rays
51-22, 20-15 Away
Final
6 - 2
San Diego Padres
33-36, 17-20 Home

McClanahan gets MLB-best 11th win, Arozarena has HR and 4 RBIs in Rays' 6-2 win over Padres

Tampa Bay is now 51-22 (.699 winning percentage) — easily the best record in baseball, with seven wins more than the Atlanta Braves. The Rays have won 11 of their last 14 games and are 15-7 in interleague play.

“Impressive win obviously, (McClanahan) was outstanding, putting together a pretty special season,” Rays manager Kevin Cash said. “Any time he has a glitch — whether it is one batter or one inning — it seems like he has shown the ability, and the best ones do, to flush it and and move on from it.”

McClanahan (11-1) came into the game with the majors' second-lowest ERA at 2.18. After allowing just one run and three hits with five strike outs in 6 2/3 innings, he lowered that to 2.12.

“It wasn’t my easiest outing, it wasn’t my best outing, it was gritty. I am pretty proud of that," McClanahan said. “If you were a betting man, I would put some money on Randy Arozarena to hit a home run here.”

The Padres' only damage against him was a solo home run by Nelson Cruz in the seventh when the Rays had a 6-0 lead.

“He throws a bunch of pitches for strikes,” Cruz said of McClanahan. “Definitely one of the best pitchers in the league.”

Tampa Bay reliever Pete Fairbanks came in to work out of a bases-loaded, one-out jam in the ninth to earn his seventh save by getting Fernando Tatis Jr. to hit into a 4-6-3 double play to end the game.

“Really clutch performance right there,” Cash said of Fairbanks putting down the Padres last-chance rally. “We felt like at that point we needed to get our best in there....It is nice to have Pete back, we missed him while he was down.”

The Rays teed off on San Diego starter Yu Darvish (5-5), who gave up six runs, eight hits — including two home runs — in five innings. He struck out five.

With Tampa Bay leading 3-0 in the fifth, Arozarena hit Darvish's 94 mph sinker 402 feet into the left-field bleachers for a 6-0 advantage.

“I thought about my first at bat when he (Darvish) was throwing me a lot of sinkers and then when I got the base hit it was with an off-speed pitch so on that I one I was expecting a sinker,” Arozarena said about his home run through an interpreter. “It was a little bit more inside than I thought. ... But I trusted my hands to get to that ball.”

Isaac Paredes hit a solo homer to left off Darvish in the first inning to put the Rays ahead 1-0.

“We were seeing him pretty well,” Paredes said through an interpreter about the Rays hitters versus Darvish. “We are all being very aggressive, everyone in the lineup does their part."

Tampa Bay added a run in the fourth before scoring four in the fifth. In the fourth, Luke Raley doubled and scored on Arozarena's single to make it 2-0. Taylor Walls doubled to lead off the fifth and scored on Jose Siri's RBI single. Raley doubled again with two outs before Arozarena's three-run homer.

TRAINER’S ROOM

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Rays: RHP Zach Eflin (8-2, 3.28) goes for his ninth win Saturday.

Padres: LHP Blake Snell (2-6, 3.78) takes the mound in the second game of the series.

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Matchup Prediction

Padres: 34.9%
Rays: 65.1%
*According to ESPN's Basketball Power Index

Scoring Summary

9th Inning Tatis Jr. grounded into double play, shortstop to second to first, Odor out at second.
9th Inning Fairbanks relieved Armstrong
9th Inning Odor walked, Kim to second, Cruz to third.
9th Inning Odor hit for Grisham
9th Inning Kim singled to right, Cruz to second.
9th Inning Cruz hit by pitch.

Statistics

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1 Games Played 1
1 Team Games Played 1
0 Hit By Pitch 1
13 Ground Balls 11
10 Strikeouts 6
6 Runs Batted In 2
0 Sacrifice Hit 0
9 Hits 7
3 Stolen Bases 1
4 Walks 5
0 Catcher Interference 0
6 Runs 2
0 Ground Into Double Play 3
0 Sacrifice Flies 0
34 At Bats 31
2 Home Runs 1
0 Grand Slam Home Runs 0
11 Runners Left On Base 14
0 Triples 0
1 Game Winning RBIs 0
0 Intentional Walks 0
3 Doubles 2
11 Fly Balls 14
2 Caught Stealing 0
157 Pitches 137
0 Games Started 0
0 Pinch At Bats 0
0 Pinch Hits 0
0.0 Player Rating 0.0
1 Is Qualified 1
1 Is Qualified In Steals 1
18 Total Bases 12
38 Plate Appearances 37
324.0 Projected Home Runs 162.0
5 Extra Base Hits 3
6.0 Runs Created 3.8
.265 Batting Average .226
.000 Pinch Hit Average .000
.529 Slugging Percentage .387
.412 Secondary Average .355
.342 On Base Percentage .351
.872 OBP Pct + SLG Pct .738
1.2 Ground To Fly Ball Ratio 0.8
6.0 Runs Created Per 27 Outs 3.8
48.0 Batter Rating 23.0
17.0 At Bats Per Home Run 31.0
0.60 Stolen Base Percentage 1.00
4.13 Pitches Per Plate Appearance 3.70
.265 Isolated Power .161
0.40 Walk To Strikeout Ratio 0.83
.105 Walks Per Plate Appearance .135
.147 Secondary Average Minus Batting Average .129
12.0 Runs Produced 4.0
1.0 Runs Ratio 1.0
0.6 Patience Ratio 0.5
0.3 Balls In Play Average 0.3
90.5 MLB Rating 76.3
0.0 Offensive Wins Above Replacement 0.0
0.0 Wins Above Replacement 0.0

Game Information

Petco Park

Location: San Diego, California
Attendance: 42,367 | Capacity:

2024 American League East Standings

TEAM W L PCT GB STRK
New York 94 68 .580 - W1
Baltimore 91 71 .562 3 W3
Boston 81 81 .500 13 W1
Tampa Bay 80 82 .494 14 L1
Toronto 74 88 .457 20 L3

2024 National League West Standings

TEAM W L PCT GB STRK
Los Angeles 98 64 .605 - W5
San Diego 93 69 .574 5 L1
Arizona 89 73 .549 9 W1
San Francisco 80 82 .494 18 L1
Colorado 61 101 .377 37 L3
Full Standings