Tuesday, 4 a.m.
Jonny Deluca, game-buster.
Deluca. not normally a slugger, turned the game for the Tampa Bay Rays Monday night.
Deluca, who had only eight home runs in his previous three seasons with the Rays, took over the game late in a 3-2 win over Milwaukee at American Family Field.
In the seventh inning, Deluca hit a 438-foot home run, the longest of his career. Then, in the ninth, Delta worked a walk. He then scored all the way from first on a double by Nick Fortes.
Deluca finished the game hitting .417.
Yandy Diaz led the game off with a hone run to left. He and Junior Caminero each had two of the Rays' seven hits.
Nick Martinez started for the Rays and went six innings and allowed two earned runs.
The bullpen, which struggled in the team's opening series at St. Louis, had good night. Griffin Jax, Grand Cleavinger, Ian Seyjour and Kevin Kelley combined for three shutout innings.
Shane McClanahan returns to the mound tonight at 7:40 p.m. He will oppose the Brewers' Brandon Woodruff.