{"id":339089,"date":"2026-05-30T13:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T13:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/339089\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T13:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T13:48:10","slug":"yandy-diaz-hits-two-home-runs-rays-beat-the-angels-8-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/339089\/","title":{"rendered":"Yandy D\u00edaz hits two home runs, Rays beat the Angels 8-5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Yandy D\u00edaz hit two home runs, including back-to-back shots with Jonathan Aranda in a seven-run seventh inning, and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Los Angeles Angels 8-5 on Friday night to end a four-game losing streak.<\/p>\n<p>Bryan Baker walked Mike Trout on a 3-2 pitch to load the bases with two outs in the ninth before retiring Vaughn Grissom on an infield pop-up for his 15th save in 18 opportunites.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Martinez (5-1) allowed two runs and eight hits in seven innings to earn the win. The right-hander has allowed two runs or less in all 11 starts this season.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RaysBaseball\/status\/2060502008524681514?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">D\u00edaz hit his ninth<\/a> home run on the second pitch from Walbert Ure\u00f1a for a 1-0 lead. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLB\/status\/2060526281507135886?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">D\u00edaz gave the Rays<\/a> a 3-2 lead in the seventh with a two-run shot off Ryan Zeferjahn (2-3) after Cedric Mullins drew a leadoff walk.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RaysBaseball\/status\/2060527262429073806?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Aranda followed<\/a> with his 10th homer, but the Rays were just getting started.<\/p>\n<p>Junior Caminero singled and Zeferjahn left in favor of Brent Suter after a groundout. Chandler reached on an error at first by Grissom and Oliver Dunn made it 5-2 with an RBI bunt single.<\/p>\n<p>Richie Palacios added a two-run triple before scoring on a sacrifice bunt by Nick Fortes for an 8-2 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter Bigge walked Zach Neto and Trout to start the eighth and left without retiring a batter after Grissom doubled in a run to make it 8-3. Kevin Kelly entered and surrendered RBI groundouts to Jo Adell and Wade Meckler to cap the scoring.<\/p>\n<p>Ure\u00f1a allowed one run on five hits in six innings. Zeferjahn and Suter were tagged for seven runs \u2014 five earned \u2014 in the final two innings.<\/p>\n<p>The Rays&#8217; Ben Williamson went 1 for 2 after missing eight games on the injured list with lower back issues before he was hit on the forearm by a pitch from Ure\u00f1a in the sixth inning and forced to exit.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Angels LHP Reid Detmers (1-5, 4.57) starts Saturday opposite Rays RHP Drew Rasmussen (4-1, 2.78).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Yandy D\u00edaz hit two home runs, including back-to-back shots with Jonathan Aranda in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,5167,553,100,6633,127,13355,48889],"class_list":["post-339089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-associated-press","tag-florida","tag-news","tag-professional-baseball","tag-sports","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-rays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}