{"id":257105,"date":"2026-05-03T23:50:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T23:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/257105\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T23:50:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T23:50:35","slug":"jonathan-aranda-delivers-walk-off-hit-in-10th-as-rays-sweep-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/257105\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Aranda Delivers Walk-Off Hit In 10th As Rays Sweep Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Tampa<\/a>Tampa Bay Rays’ Jonathan Aranda celebrates after his walkoff RBI single during the 10th inning of a baseball game against the San Francisco Giants, Sunday, May 3, 2026, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (AP Photo\/Jason Behnken)<\/p>\n

St. Petersburg, FL \u2013 Jonathan Aranda<\/a> delivered a walk-off single in the bottom of the 10th inning to lead the Tampa Bay Rays to a 2-1 victory over the San Francisco Giants on Sunday afternoon in front of 20,108. It also marked the 200th walk-off win in franchise history. <\/p>\n

Ian Seymour<\/a> (1-0, 5.87 ERA) worked a scoreless tenth to pick up the win and the Rays improve to a season high nine games over .500 at 21-12. It\u2019s the first time they\u2019ve been at nine games over .500 since July 3, 2025 when they were 48-39. In sweeping the Giants the Rays extend their home winning streak to seven straight games. <\/p>\n

Caleb Kilian<\/a> (1-1, 0.60 ERA) takes the loss for San Francisco who lost their sixth straight game and seventh straight on the road. Overall they see their record fall to 13-21. Tyler Mahle<\/a> was effective as he held the Rays scoreless through 5.1-innings allowing just four hits while striking out five and walking none.<\/p>\n

Rays Play From Behind:<\/p>\n

The Giants jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning. Rafael Devers<\/a> bounced a double past Junior Caminero<\/a> who was shaded up toward the shortstop position against the left-handed Devers. Devers scored on a RBI single off the bat of Casey Schmitt<\/a>. Steven Matz<\/a> avoided further damage by inducing a groundball double play off the bat of Luis Arraez<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Matz Solid Once Again:<\/p>\n

In his last start against the Cleveland Guardians, Steven Matz<\/a> allowed a pair of runs in seven innings of work. He followed that with six innings of one run ball against the Giants on Sunday afternoon. He allowed just four hits while striking out one and walking two. He made 89 pitches with 60 for strikes while delivering first pitch strikes to 13 of 22 batters he faced. Matz delivered quality starts in back-to-back outings for the first time since August 5-12, 2023.<\/p>\n

Rays Draw Even In Eighth:<\/p>\n

Junior Caminero<\/a> drew a walk to lead off the bottom of the eighth and advanced to third on Jonathan Aranda<\/a>\u2018s third hit on the day. Caminero scored on a sacrifice bunt by Ryan Vilade<\/a> to tie the game at 1-1. Jonny DeLuca<\/a> moved Vilade and Aranda into scoring position for Ben Williamson<\/a> who lined out into a double play to end the inning.<\/p>\n

Bullpen Locks Down Giants Bats:<\/p>\n

Hunter Bigge<\/a>, who hadn\u2019t pitched since April 25th against the Minnesota Twins, followed Steven Matz and delivered two scoreless innings. Brian Baker worked a scoreless ninth and Ian Seymour<\/a> kept the Giants off the board in the 10th to setup the Rays for the sweep.<\/p>\n

Aranda Delivers Walk-Off:<\/p>\n

The Rays opened the bottom of the 10th with Chandler Simpson<\/a>, the fastest man in baseball at second, and Junior Caminero and Jonathan Aranda due up. San Francisco elected to intentionally walk Caminero to face Aranda who entered today\u2019s game tied for the league lead in RBI and already had three hits on the afternoon. Aranda delivered the walk-off single to score Simpson and give the Rays a 2-1 victory.<\/p>\n

Aranda finished the day 4-for-5 including his third career walk-off hit and second of the season (April 11 vs New York Yankees). His four hits in a single game is a career furst and and joins Yandy Diaz<\/a> (March 29th vs St. Louis Cardinals) as the only Rays to get four hits in a game. <\/p>\n

Up Next For Rays:<\/p>\n

The Rays welcome the Toronto Blue Jays for a three game series beginning Monday night at 6:40 p.m. EST Nick Martinez<\/a> (2-1, 1.70 ERA) will take the mound for Tampa Bay and Kevin Guasman (2-2, 3.10 ERA) takes the mound for the Jays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Rays’ Jonathan Aranda celebrates after his walkoff RBI single during the 10th inning of a baseball…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1950,22676,202,204,203,199,201,200,3815],"class_list":["post-257105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-insiders","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa-bay-rays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257105","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=257105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}