{"id":644691,"date":"2026-05-03T07:48:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T07:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/644691\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T07:48:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T07:48:17","slug":"jonathan-aranda-drives-in-two-runs-to-help-lead-rays-past-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/644691\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Aranda drives in two runs to help lead Rays past Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Jonathan Aranda<\/a> hit a two-run single in Tampa Bay\u2019s three-run fifth inning and the Rays defeated the San Francisco Giants<\/a> 5-1 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Cedric Mullins<\/a> and Jake Fraley<\/a> also drove in a run for the Rays, who became the second AL team to reach 20 wins, joining the New York Yankees<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay, which has won eight of its last 10 games, took a 1-0 lead on Fraley\u2019s RBI single in the fourth. The Rays then broke it open in the fifth when Mullins drew a bases-loaded walk and Aranda followed with his two-RBI single to make it 4-0.<\/p>\n

Heliot Ramos<\/a>\u2019 flyout in the second inning appeared to first hit the catwalk at Tropicana Field and the Giants challenged that it should\u2019ve been ruled a home run. But the call on the field stood and San Francisco pitcher Adrian Houser<\/a>, who wasn\u2019t in the game, and director of pitching Frank Anderson were ejected for arguing the call from the dugout.<\/p>\n

San Francisco ended a 16-inning scoreless stretch in the sixth after Luis Arraez<\/a> doubled and later scored on Rafael Devers<\/a>\u2019 two-out double to score the Giants\u2019 only run.<\/p>\n

The Rays added an insurance run in the eighth when Jonny DeLuca<\/a> doubled, stole third and scored on a throwing error by catcher Patrick Bailey<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Aranda, who\u2019s among the league leaders with 27 RBIs, had two of Tampa Bay\u2019s nine hits. DeLuca also had two hits and scored a run.<\/p>\n

Jesse Scholtens<\/a> (3-1) earned the win in relief, allowing one run over three innings. Tampa Bay\u2019s bullpen combined for 3 1\/3 scoreless innings to close it out.<\/p>\n

Landen Roupp<\/a> (5-2) took the loss after allowing four runs and eight hits in 4 1\/3 innings. <\/p>\n

The Giants avoided a franchise-record eighth shutout in their first 32 games. During their current road stretch, they are 0-5 and have yet to hit a home run.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

LHP Steven Matz<\/a> (4-1, 4.31 ERA) takes the mound for the Rays, while RHP Tyler Mahle<\/a> (1-4, 5.87 ERA) gets the start for the Giants in the series finale Sunday. <\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n

The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Jonathan Aranda hit a two-run single in Tampa Bay\u2019s three-run fifth inning and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-644691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}