{"id":198637,"date":"2026-03-20T02:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T02:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/198637\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T02:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T02:50:10","slug":"biggest-plays-in-tampa-bay-rays-history-action-news-jax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/198637\/","title":{"rendered":"Biggest plays in Tampa Bay Rays history \u2013 Action News Jax"},"content":{"rendered":"

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dean bertoncelj \/\/ Shutterstock (Stacker\/Stacker)<\/p>\n

Biggest plays in Tampa Bay Rays history<\/p>\n

Major League Baseball history is built on moments \u2014 swings, pitches, and split-second plays that reshaped seasons and, in some cases, entire franchises. From walk-off home runs in winner-take-all games to clutch hits under October pressure, the biggest plays often came when the stakes were highest. Stacker<\/a> identified the most impactful plays in Tampa Bay Rays history using data from Stathead<\/a>. Plays were ranked by their Championship Win Probability Added (cWPA), a metric that measures how much a single play changed a team’s odds of winning the World Series.<\/p>\n

#4. October 17, 2020 (ALCS Gm 7)
– Score: tied 0-0 (1st inning, 1 out)
– Opponent: HOU
– Event: HR
– Play Description: Home Run (Fly Ball to Deep CF-RF); M.\u00a0Margot Scores
– cWPA: 8.39%<\/p>\n

#3. October 24, 2020 (WS Gm 4)
– Score: down 6-5 (7th inning, 1 out)
– Opponent: LAD
– Event: HR
– Play Description: Home Run (Fly Ball to Deep CF-RF)
– cWPA: 8.50%<\/p>\n

#2. October 24, 2020 (WS Gm 4)
– Score: down 4-2 (6th inning, 1 out)
– Opponent: LAD
– Event: HR
– Play Description: Home Run (Fly Ball to Deep LF-CF); R.\u00a0Arozarena Scores; J.\u00a0Choi Scores
– cWPA: 14.30%<\/p>\n

#1. October 24, 2020 (WS Gm 4)
– Score: down 7-6 (9th inning, 2 outs)
– Opponent: LAD
– Event: 1B
– Play Description: *WALK-OFF*:Single to CF (Line Drive to CF-RF); K.\u00a0Kiermaier Scores; R.\u00a0Arozarena Scores\/Safe on E2 (catch)\/No RBI (Unearned run); B.\u00a0Phillips to 2B (Advanced on throw) on E8
– cWPA: 30.27%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"dean bertoncelj \/\/ Shutterstock (Stacker\/Stacker) Biggest plays in Tampa Bay Rays history Major League Baseball history is built…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[60769,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-198637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-stacker","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}