MLB

Boston Red Sox at Tampa Bay Rays

· Major League Baseball
Boston Red Sox
75-76, 40-36 Away
Final
3 - 8
Tampa Bay Rays
74-77, 38-38 Home

Baz goes 7 strong innings, Siri homers and drives in 4 runs as Rays beat Red Sox 8-3

Baz (3-3) struck out six and walked one, and set a team mark with his fifth consecutive start of giving up three hits or fewer over five-plus innings.

Siri hit one of Tampa Bay's three homers during a four-run fifth inning and extended the Rays lead to 8-3 with his three-run bloop double to left in the eighth.

Junior Caminero, Josh Lowe and Brandon Lowe also homered for the Rays. Tampa Bay trails Minnesota by six games for the final AL wild card, and would also have pass Boston, Seattle and Detroit.

“We're not dead," Baz said. “I don't think anybody in this locker room is acting like it. We're still playing hard, and we're going to continue to play hard.”

Triston Casas and Romy Gonzalez homered for Boston, which is five back of the Twins with 11 games remaining.

“It's not a lack of effort,” Boston manger Alex Cora said. “It's not happening for us right now.”

After Caminero hit a fourth-inning solo homer, Josh Lowe and Siri homered during the fifth against Nick Pivetta (5-11) to give the Rays a 3-2 lead.

Caminero said he told Siri — who raised his batting average from .189 to .192 after going 2 for 4 — before the game he would go deep.

“I like how the vibe felt today,” Caminero said through a translator. “A lot of good energy among ourselves.”

Pivetta cramped up in the neck-shoulder area after striking out Logan Driscoll. Pivetta stayed in the game after being checked out and allowed Siri's 339-foot homer down the left-field line and Yandy Díaz's double that ended his night.

Cora expects Pivetta to make his next schedueld start.

Bailey Horn replaced Pivetta and gave up Brandon Lowe's two-run homer that made it 5-2.

Pivetta allowed four runs and five hits over 4 2/3 innings.

Casas had seven hits in his previous 49 at-bats before he put the Red Sox up 2-0 with his second-inning homer. Gonzalez hit a pinch-hit homer off Garrett Cleavinger leading of the eighth.

Kevin Kelly worked the ninth to extend his scoreless streak to 20 1/3 innings and complete a three-hitter.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Red Sox: RHP Bryan Mata (right hamstring) will most likely not make his major-league this season.

Rays: Shane McClanahan (Tommy John surgery) will throw to hitters on Sept. 26. ... Caminero had a stinger on his hand during a seventh-inning at-bat and stayed in the game.

UP NEXT

Cora said RHP Tanner Houck (8-10, 3.24 ERA) will make his first start since Sept. 4 on Wednesday night against Rays RHP Ryan Pepiot (8-6, 3.76 ERA). Houck has been slowed by right shoulder fatigue. Pepiot was pulled after two innings on Sept. 12 because his velocity was down.

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Matchup Prediction

Rays: 48.6%
Red Sox: 51.4%
*According to ESPN's Basketball Power Index

Scoring Summary

9th Inning Wong grounded out to shortstop.
9th Inning Yoshida flied out to center.
9th Inning O'Neill flied out to center.
9th Inning Kelly relieved Cleavinger
8th Inning B. Lowe struck out swinging.
8th Inning Díaz walked.

Statistics

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1 Games Played 1
1 Team Games Played 1
0 Hit By Pitch 0
7 Ground Balls 10
8 Strikeouts 10
3 Runs Batted In 8
0 Sacrifice Hit 0
3 Hits 12
0 Stolen Bases 0
1 Walks 2
0 Catcher Interference 0
3 Runs 8
1 Ground Into Double Play 0
0 Sacrifice Flies 0
31 At Bats 36
2 Home Runs 4
0 Grand Slam Home Runs 0
3 Runners Left On Base 14
0 Triples 0
0 Game Winning RBIs 1
0 Intentional Walks 0
0 Doubles 3
16 Fly Balls 16
0 Caught Stealing 0
126 Pitches 159
0 Games Started 0
1 Pinch At Bats 0
1 Pinch Hits 0
0.0 Player Rating 0.0
1 Is Qualified 1
0 Is Qualified In Steals 0
9 Total Bases 27
32 Plate Appearances 38
324.0 Projected Home Runs 648.0
2 Extra Base Hits 7
0.3 Runs Created 9.2
.097 Batting Average .333
1.000 Pinch Hit Average .000
.290 Slugging Percentage .750
.226 Secondary Average .472
.125 On Base Percentage .368
.415 OBP Pct + SLG Pct 1.118
0.4 Ground To Fly Ball Ratio 0.6
0.3 Runs Created Per 27 Outs 10.4
21.0 Batter Rating 62.0
15.5 At Bats Per Home Run 9.0
0.00 Stolen Base Percentage 0.00
3.94 Pitches Per Plate Appearance 4.18
.194 Isolated Power .417
0.13 Walk To Strikeout Ratio 0.20
.031 Walks Per Plate Appearance .053
.129 Secondary Average Minus Batting Average .139
6.0 Runs Produced 16.0
1.0 Runs Ratio 1.0
0.3 Patience Ratio 0.8
0.0 Balls In Play Average 0.4
68.3 MLB Rating 106.0
0.0 Offensive Wins Above Replacement 0.0
0.0 Wins Above Replacement 0.0

Game Information

Tropicana Field

Location: St. Petersburg, Florida
Attendance: 12,169 | 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
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