ST. PETERSBURG -- When the Rays are rolling, they’ll win a lot of games the way they won Saturday night against the Giants. No one in the lineup homered. Nobody had a three-hit game. No pitcher recorded more than nine outs. If you want to pick a defensive play of

ST. PETERSBURG -- The Rays appear to be moving one important arm out of their bullpen, as right-hander Griffin Jax continued his transition into the rotation with a start against the Giants, but they brought back another important late-inning reliever on Saturday. The Rays reinstated left-hander Garrett Cleavinger from the

ST. PETERSBURG -- Designated hitter Yandy Díaz exited the Rays’ 3-0 win against the Giants on Friday night at Tropicana Field after two at-bats due to left side tightness, and was not in the lineup Saturday night. Díaz’s status is still day to day, according to manager Kevin Cash, but

ST. PETERSBURG -- Shane McClanahan has been wanting to share his newfound passion for fishing with his teammates for a while, but the Major League schedule affords few opportunities for offshore adventures. Granted a rare off-day at home on Thursday, McClanahan got Junior Caminero, Ben Williamson, Ryan Vilade and Nick

ST. PETERSBURG -- The Rays will be without starter Ryan Pepiot for the rest of the year, as manager Kevin Cash said on Friday the right-hander is set to undergo season-ending right hip surgery on May 13. Pepiot has been sidelined since the end of Spring Training due to right

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PITTSBURGH -- The shortest distance from PNC Park’s home plate to the Allegheny River, according to the Pirates' media guide, is 456 feet -- straight down the right-field line. That proximity to the water has created a tantalizing target for left-handed power hitters over the years, no different than the

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ST. PETERSBURG -- Before turning into a reliable reliever with some of the most impressive stuff in the game, Griffin Jax broke into the Majors with the Twins as a starting pitcher. Could a move back into the rotation be on the table with the Rays? It seems like a

ST. PETERSBURG -- With their bullpen beset by injuries, the Rays added some potentially interesting relief depth on Friday afternoon by acquiring right-hander Casey Legumina in a trade with the Mariners. The Rays sent Minor League right-hander Ty Cummings to the Mariners to land Legumina, who was designated for assignment

ST. PETERSBURG -- Shane McClanahan marched off the mound, pumped both fists and shouted before looking up and pointing both index fingers to the sky. For all the frustration he’s felt and all the patience he’s been preached, he walked into the dugout on Saturday afternoon with a sense of

ST. PETERSBURG -- Junior Caminero lifted and lowered his left leg, turned his body and unleashed the kind of swing he’s understandably become known for. Quick, powerful, ferocious. He kept his left arm extended and watched the ball fly out toward the netting hundreds of feet away, bound for a

ST. PETERSBURG -- The Rays won’t be able to call up outfield prospect Jacob Melton any time soon, as the club’s No. 3 prospect is sidelined with a sprained left ankle. Melton sustained the injury while rounding third base in the sixth inning of Triple-A Durham’s 4-1 loss to Lehigh

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ST. PETERSBURG -- Rays starter Nick Martinez brought plenty of familiarity with the Reds into Wednesday afternoon’s matchup at Tropicana Field. Martinez pitched for Cincinnati the past two years and still knows plenty of players in the lineup that gave Tampa Bay’s pitching staff fits the past two nights. Looking

ST. PETERSBURG -- The American League East has earned its reputation as the toughest division in baseball. This year, all five clubs in the division entered the season with legitimate hopes of playing postseason baseball. They’ve all made the playoffs at some point in the past three seasons, and the

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ST. PETERSBURG -- During Reds batting practice, shortstop Elly De La Cruz spent quite a while chatting and laughing on the field with a friend and fellow Dominican player -- Rays third baseman Junior Caminero. Later in the game, a 6-1 Cincinnati victory, De La Cruz then robbed his friend,

ST. PETERSBURG -- The Rays lost another key part of their bullpen before Monday’s series opener against the Reds at Tropicana Field, and they revealed that one of their top high-leverage arms is further away from a return than anticipated.

PITTSBURGH -- As Shane McClanahan was progressing through Spring Training, preparing to rejoin the Rays’ rotation for the first time since August 2023, the Rays occasionally preached patience. Even for someone as talented and dedicated as McClanahan, making up for lost time would take … well, time. McClanahan took a

PITTSBURGH -- For all the weird and wild stuff that took place throughout the Rays’ 13-inning, rain-delayed, all-hands-on-deck 8-7 victory over the Pirates that consumed most of Saturday, one play still had some people talking after the fact. With the bases loaded, the Rays up by 2 after Cedric Mullins’

PITTSBURGH -- It took everyone and just about everything the Rays had to pull off a wild, 8-7 win over the Pirates in 13 innings on Saturday night at PNC Park. It took everyone in the literal sense.

PITTSBURGH -- The pitch was, in some ways, perfectly located. With a runner on third base, two outs in the sixth inning and a 2-2 count in a tie game, Griffin Jax fired an 88.4 mph sweeper that spun toward the bottom corner of the strike zone, as far down

PITTSBURGH -- It has been a stressful and emotional 10 days for Drew Rasmussen and his family, but some sense of normalcy has finally returned. Rasmussen and his wife, Stevie, brought their newborn daughter, Miller Drew, home on Thursday night. And on Friday, Rasmussen flew north to rejoin the Rays

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