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Vilade’s homer overcomes Mariners

July 12, 2026 general

Sunday, 4 a.m. It made sense. Of course it did. Only a moron would suggest it didn’t. But that’s the thing about the odds. Sometime, they slap you in the face. Consider the bottom of the seventh in the Rays’ win over Seattle Saturday. The Rays led only 2-1, and Junior Caminero was at the […]

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Rays power way to win over Seattle

July 11, 2026 general

Saturday, 4 a.m. The Tampa Bay Rays, suddenly, have discovered the joy of baseball on the other side of the fence. The Rays, who have spent most of the season as the worst home-run hitting teams in the majors, launched four out of the park Friday night. They have now homered in 12 of their […]

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Yankees hammer Rays, Rasmussen

July 10, 2026 general

Friday, 4 a.m. With a chance to pull further away in the AL East Thursday, the Tampa Bay Rays fell on their noses. The Rays were clobbered, 12-4, in a game where they simply could not calm down the Yankees. The Yanks hammered out 14 hits on the day, three of them home runs. Ben […]

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Rays keep rolling in 3-0 win over Yankees

July 9, 2026 general

Thursday, 4 a.m. The arms of the Tampa Bay Rays have rarely been better. Once again, the pitching staff of the Rays dominated the big-swingers of the powerful Yankees. The Rays completed their sixth shutout of the year in a 3-0 victory over the Yankees. The Rays have struck out 45 Yankee hitters in their […]

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Rays’ deep balls overcome Yankees

July 8, 2026 general

Wednesday, 4 a.m. So which team is the Bombers around here? The Tampa Bay Rays, among the major league teams that have hit the fewest home runs this season, beat the powerful New York Yankees at their own game Tuesday night. Even with their recent power surge, the Rays rank only 26th in the majors […]

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Rays’ offense struggles in loss to Yankees

July 7, 2026 general

Tuesday, 4 a.m. Just asking. What, exactly, did the Rays get in return when they traded away Jose Caballero? Oh, Everson Pereira, who lasted a cup of coffee with the Rays? I guess it’s proper to suggest the Rays lost that trade, huh? Caballero, once a role player with the Rays, launched two home runs […]

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Rays bats quiet in defeat

July 6, 2026 general

Monday, 4 a.m. Shhh. Once again, the bats of the Tampa Bay Rays are sleeping. Careful, or you might wake them up. The Rays, who tend to go quiet on the days their Big Three do, lost their second straight game Sunday in a 2-0 defeat at the hands of the Houston Astros at Daikin […]

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Rays can’t hold onto lead over Astros

July 5, 2026 general

Sunday, 4 a.m. When a team is riding a winning streak, it always seems rude when a game turns out the wrong way. But this? The Rays blew a five-run lead and lost 10-8 to the Houston Astros. Yordan Alvarez homered twice and drove in six runs as the Astros stopped the Rays’ nine-game winning […]

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Rays keep winning; Junior homers again

July 4, 2026 general

Saturday, 4 a.m. And on today’s ongoing Junior News, he’s at it again. These days, what’s up with Junior Caminero of the Tampa Bay Rays is a separate category of what’s going on with his team. Both are soaring, by the way. After taking a night off from his home run streak, Caminero homered again […]

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Caminero’s streak ends, but not the Rays’

July 3, 2026 general

Friday, 4 a.m. Turns out, the Rays can win without Junior Caminero. It just isn’t as much fun. Caminero had his six-game home run streak stopped Thursday night in a 5-2 victory over Kansas City. It was a rare quiet game by Caminero, who had nine homers in his previous eight games. This season, Caminero […]

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