TAMPA, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Shane McClanahan extended his scoreless streak to 16 2\/3 innings, and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Toronto Blue Jays 3-0 Wednesday to finish a three-game sweep for their 12th win in 13 games.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay has allowed 17 runs over the 13 games. The Rays have three shutouts in that span and have given up one run five times.<\/p>\n
McClanahan (4-2) yielded two hits over 5 2\/3 innings in his third straight scoreless outing, struck out four and walked one. Kevin Kelly, Garrett Cleavinger, Bryan Baker and Ian Seymour finished the four-hitter, with Seymour getting three straight outs for his first professional save.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay has won 10 straight home games and is 14-4 at home in its first season back at Tropicana Field following a season across the bay at Steinbrenner Field while repairs were made at the Trop following\u00a0damage caused by Hurricane Milton.<\/p>\n
Defending AL champion Toronto had lost four straight and five of seven, dropping to 16-21.<\/p>\n
Patrick Corbin (1-1) gave up two runs and five hits in 5 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay took a 2-0 lead in the fourth when Johnny DeLuca hit an RBI double and scored on Chandler Simpson\u2019s two-out RBI single.<\/p>\n
Cedric Mullins scored from third on an eighth-inning error by second baseman Ernie Clement on his throw wide of first trying to complete an inning-inning double play on DeLuca\u2019s grounder.<\/p>\n
Up Next<\/p>\n
Blue Jays RHP Dylan Cease (2-1) starts Friday in the first game a of a three-game series against the visiting Los Angeles Angels and LHP Reid Detmers (1-2, 4.28).<\/p>\n
Rays RHP Griffin Jax (1-2 5.14) starts the opener of a four-game series on Thursday at Boston, which sends LHP Jake Bennett (1-0, 1.80) to the mound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Shane McClanahan extended his scoreless streak to 16 2\/3 innings, and the Tampa Bay…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1242,28,115,139,275,110,202,204,203,199,201,200,135,3815],"class_list":["post-261108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-app-professional-sports","tag-florida","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-sports","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-rays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261108","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=261108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}