MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 Richie Palacios hit a two-run homer in a three-run 10th inning, and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Minnesota Twins 4-1 on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Junior Caminero also went deep for Tampa Bay, which concluded a nine-game, 11-day, season-opening road trip with the 900th career win for manager Kevin Cash.<\/p>\n
Leading off the extra inning, Palacios hit his first home run of the season to right field on the second pitch he saw from Justin Topa (0-1). A bases-loaded walk by Caminero scored another run.<\/p>\n
Bryan Baker (1-0) struck out two of the three batters he faced in the ninth inning for the win. Kevin Kelly earned his second save with a scoreless 10th.<\/p>\n
Matt Wallner homered for the Twins, who had just three hits for the second straight game, and are hitting .192 as a team.<\/p>\n
Caminero\u2019s fourth-inning home run off Simeon Woods Richardson came on a pitch that was 1.14 feet above the ground, the third-lowest a Rays batter has homered on since Statcast began in 2015, behind only Corey Dickerson (0.82 feet on Oct. 1, 2016) and Brad Miller (1.08 feet on June 11, 2016).<\/p>\n
Woods Richardson allowed one earned run on five hits and struck out four in 6 2\/3 innings for Minnesota.<\/p>\n
Nick Martinez pitched six innings of one-hit ball \u2014 Wallner\u2019s second-inning home run \u2014 and struck out four for Tampa Bay. He is the first Rays pitcher since Jake Faria in 2017 to record a quality start in each of his first two outings with the team.<\/p>\n
Byron Buxton was hitless in four at-bats as Minnesota\u2019s designated hitter extended his slump to 0 for 19. Buxton was hit in the right forearm by a pitch Friday and sat out Saturday.<\/p>\n
Rays: Return to Tropicana Field Monday for the first time since Sept. 22, 2024, with LHP Shane McClanahan (0-1, 3.86) opposing Cubs\u2019 RHP Jameson Taillon (0-0, 0.00).<\/p>\n
Twins: RHP Joe Ryan (0-1, 4.82) is to face Detroit RHP Casey Mize (0-1, 1.50) to open a four-game home series Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 Richie Palacios hit a two-run homer in a three-run 10th inning, and the Tampa Bay…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[99747,64906,99745,99748,99746,99744,99743,84499,99750,99751,64072,99677,72086,756,1664,1661,1663,4399,99752,99742,71146,74505,99749,135,137,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-219986","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-brad-miller","9":"tag-bryan-baker","10":"tag-byron-buxton","11":"tag-corey-dickerson","12":"tag-jacob-faria","13":"tag-jameson-taillon","14":"tag-joe-ryan","15":"tag-junior-caminero","16":"tag-justin-topa","17":"tag-kevin-cash","18":"tag-kevin-kelly","19":"tag-matt-wallner","20":"tag-nick-martinez","21":"tag-package-100024-ap-online","22":"tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","23":"tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","24":"tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","25":"tag-product-40780-ap-florida-sports-only","26":"tag-product-40793-ap-minnesota-sports-only","27":"tag-rays-twins-score","28":"tag-richie-palacios","29":"tag-shane-mcclanahan","30":"tag-simeon-woods-richardson","31":"tag-tampa","32":"tag-tampa-headlines","33":"tag-tampa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219986","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=219986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}