{"id":760653,"date":"2026-06-26T02:43:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T02:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/760653\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T02:43:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T02:43:32","slug":"rays-lose-combined-no-hitter-in-ninth-inning-of-blowout-win-over-royals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/760653\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays lose combined no-hitter in ninth inning of blowout win over Royals"},"content":{"rendered":"

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 The Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> lost a combined no-hitter against the Kansas City Royals when Carter Jensen hit a two-run homer off Craig Kimbrel<\/a> in the ninth inning on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Opener Casey Legumina<\/a> retired all four batters he faced through 1 1\/3 innings before Ian Seymour<\/a> took over in the second. Seymour struck out seven batters. Kimbrel started the ninth and allowed a walk to Starling Marte before Jensen went deep with one out.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay was leading Kansas City 13-0 to start the ninth behind a franchise record-tying three home runs by Junior Caminero, who drove in six runs in the\u00a013-2 win.<\/p>\n

The Rays retired the first 16 batters they faced before Marte drew a one-out walk on a full count in the top of the sixth before Seymour retired Tyler Tolbert and Jensen to end the inning.<\/p>\n

Left fielder Chandler Simpson made a running catch near the foul pole to track down a fly ball off the bat of Salvador Perez in the fifth to keep the perfect game intact. Simpson also caught a hard line drive off the bat of Ian Collins to end the eighth.<\/p>\n

The Rays have never thrown a perfect game in franchise history. Matt Garza has the only no-hitter in Tampa Bay history on July 26, 2010, against the Detroit Tigers.<\/p>\n

This would have been the second no-hitter in the majors this year, following the\u00a0Astros’ combined no-hitter against the Rangers on May 25.<\/p>\n

Kimbrel himself finished a\u00a0combined no-hitter for the Chicago Cubs\u00a0against the Los Angeles Dodgers on June 24, 2021, at Dodger Stadium.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay has been no-hit six times in franchise history, the most recent on May 10, 2022, against the Los Angeles Angels\u2019 Reid Detmers. The last time Kansas City was no-hit was May 19, 2008, against Boston\u2019s Jon Lester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 The Tampa Bay Rays lost a combined no-hitter against the Kansas City Royals when…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":760654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-760653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}