{"id":878911,"date":"2026-09-01T02:08:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T02:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/878911\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T02:08:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T02:08:16","slug":"robert-stocks-first-major-league-win-in-seven-years-lifts-new-york-mets-past-tampa-bay-rays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/878911\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Stock\u2019s first major league win in seven years lifts New York Mets past Tampa Bay Rays"},"content":{"rendered":"

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Robert Stock<\/a> pitched shutout ball into the sixth inning for his first major league win in seven years, Mark Vientos<\/a> homered in his return from the injured list and the New York Mets<\/a> beat the Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> 3-2 on Monday night.<\/p>\n

Francisco Alvarez<\/a> had an RBI single and left fielder Christopher Morel<\/a> made two pivotal defensive plays as the last-place Mets stopped Tampa Bay\u2019s four-game winning streak. New York, which snapped an eight-game skid at Tropicana Field, had lost six in a row and 11 of 13 to the Rays overall.<\/p>\n

Liam Hicks<\/a> and Chandler Simpson<\/a> each had an RBI single with two outs in the eighth to pull the Rays to 3-2. <\/p>\n

Kodai Senga<\/a> worked a scoreless ninth for his fifth save.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay has the best record in the American League at 82-55 and began the day with a 4 1\/2-game lead in the AL East over the New York Yankees<\/a>.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

See AP\u2019s full MLB coverage here <\/p>\n

Erik Erlendsson, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Robert Stock pitched shutout ball into the sixth inning for his first major…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":878912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-878911","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\/878911","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=878911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/878912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}