{"id":247588,"date":"2026-04-26T20:56:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T20:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/247588\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T20:56:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T20:56:37","slug":"rays-4-twins-2-the-st-pete-florida-blues-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/247588\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays 4, Twins 2: The St. Pete Florida Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Minnesota Twins flew into St. Pete late Thursday night and will depart shortly. Much like a group of college spring-breakers, they will likely want to forget everything in between (if they remember it at all).<\/p>\n

In a move that felt a little like \u201cplaying with their food\u201d, Tampa Bay<\/a> ran old friend Griffin Jax<\/a> out as an opener today. He pitched a clean 2.1 IP before bulk man Jesse Scholtens<\/a> took over. The Twins put two baserunners\u2014Ryan Jeffers<\/a> BB, Kody Clemens<\/a> 1B\u2014on with zero outs in the second inning, but a Luke Keaschall<\/a> fly out and a Matt Wallner<\/a> GIDP extinguished hope for a run before it could really even be cultivated.<\/p>\n

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Instead, the Rays activated the scoreboard first in B3 when Twins SP Simeon Woods-Richardson threw a Hunter Feduccia<\/a> bunt attempt wild (resulting in two bases) and then allowed a Chandler Simpson<\/a> single to put ducks on the pond. Both would fly home on a Jonathan Aranda<\/a> base knock. Freak-of-strength Yandy Diaz then basically popped a ball up\u2014which carried over the RF fence beyond Wallner\u2019s reach. 4-0 Rays.<\/p>\n

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The Twins threatened again in T4 by putting two more runners on base, but once again they were LOBster\u2019d by a meek Royce Lewis<\/a> pop-up out. Tampa nearly increased their lead in B4, but a nice Larnach-to-Jeffers relay cut down the run at the dish.<\/p>\n

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Nothing much of note transpired in the middle innings of this one, but in T7 the bats finally did some damage: a James Outman<\/a> double was allowed to trot home on a Brooks Lee<\/a> home run! 4-2 TB.<\/p>\n

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Alas, that was the only offense that could be mustered the rest of the way.<\/p>\n

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Your Final: Tampa Bay Rays 4, Minnesota Twins 2<\/p>\n

Despite cleaning up the defense a bit and the pitching keeping them in the majority of these ballgames, the offense\u2014especially the ability to finish rallies and drive in runs\u2014remains equal parts un-playable and un-watchable at the moment. An Island of Misfit Toys of spare parts, floundering once-thought core pieces, and folks who probably shouldn\u2019t be on the roster to begin with.<\/p>\n

\"\"Zach\u2019s Zealot<\/p>\n

Denard Span<\/a>: Bringing his children into the TV broadcast booth. The Span-Man seems like a legitimately great guy and family man. I enjoy him supplementing Morneau & Perkins on the mic.<\/p>\n

Zach\u2019s Zombie<\/p>\n

SWR continuing to struggle: 4.1 IP, 8 H, 4 ER, 3 BB, 2 K<\/p>\n

Egg-cellent<\/a> ElocutionWho\u2019s Got Next<\/p>\n

The Minneapolis temperatures drop, which means the Twins are back home hosting the surprisingly-struggling\u201413-15 coming into today\u2014Seattle Mariners<\/a> (Mon. night, Tues. night, Wed. afternoon)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Minnesota Twins flew into St. Pete late Thursday night and will depart shortly. Much like a group…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[108689,54493,48421,108692,28,64909,108688,108690,108685,84503,108691,108686,99677,24221,108687,108684,5923,202,204,203,199,201,200,1526,3815,84506],"class_list":{"0":"post-247588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-alex-kirilloff","9":"tag-brooks-lee","10":"tag-chandler-simpson","11":"tag-denard-span","12":"tag-florida","13":"tag-griffin-jax","14":"tag-hunter-feduccia","15":"tag-james-outman","16":"tag-jesse-scholtens","17":"tag-jonathan-aranda","18":"tag-kody-clemens","19":"tag-luke-keaschall","20":"tag-matt-wallner","21":"tag-minnesota-twins","22":"tag-royce-lewis","23":"tag-ryan-jeffers","24":"tag-seattle-mariners","25":"tag-st-pete","26":"tag-st-pete-headlines","27":"tag-st-pete-news","28":"tag-st-petersburg","29":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","30":"tag-st-petersburg-news","31":"tag-tampa-bay","32":"tag-tampa-bay-rays","33":"tag-yandy-diaz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247588","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=247588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}