{"id":263262,"date":"2026-05-08T10:13:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T10:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/263262\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T10:13:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T10:13:13","slug":"red-sox-host-tampa-bay-rays-look-to-stop-home-losing-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/263262\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox host Tampa Bay Rays, look to stop home losing streak"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> (25-12, second in the AL East) vs. Boston Red Sox<\/a> (16-22, fifth in the AL East)<\/p>\n

Boston; Friday, 7:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Rays: Jesse Scholtens<\/a> (3-1, 3.18 ERA, 1.10 WHIP, 17 strikeouts); Red Sox: Connelly Early (2-2, 3.79 ERA, 1.32 WHIP, 31 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Red Sox -143, Rays +121; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Boston Red Sox look to break their three-game home losing streak with a win over the Tampa Bay Rays.<\/p>\n

Boston has a 16-22 record overall and a 6-11 record at home. The Red Sox have an 11-4 record in games when they scored five or more runs.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay is 11-8 on the road and 25-12 overall. Rays pitchers have a collective 3.54 ERA, which ranks second in the AL.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Friday for the second time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Willson Contreras<\/a> has four doubles, eight home runs and 23 RBIs while hitting .263 for the Red Sox. Ceddanne Rafaela<\/a> is 11 for 39 with a double, a triple and a home run over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Junior Caminero<\/a> leads the Rays with 10 home runs while slugging .496. Yandy Diaz<\/a> is 10 for 35 with two home runs and five RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Red Sox: 5-5, .247 batting average, 3.34 ERA, even run differential<\/p>\n

Rays: 9-1, .255 batting average, 1.30 ERA, outscored opponents by 20 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Red Sox: Roman Anthony: 10-Day IL (wrist), Danny Coulombe<\/a>: 15-Day IL (cervical spasms), Patrick Sandoval: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ranger Suarez: day-to-day (hamstring), Justin Slaten<\/a>: 15-Day IL (oblique), Garrett Crochet: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Kutter Crawford: 15-Day IL (wrist), Triston Casas<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee), Johan Oviedo<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Romy Gonzalez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Tanner Houck: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Rays: Joe Boyle<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Mason Englert: 15-Day IL (forearm), Steven Matz<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Gavin Lux: 10-Day IL (shoulder), Ryan Pepiot<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hip), Edwin Uceta<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Steven Wilson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (back), Manuel Rodriguez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Michael Grove<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Rays (25-12, second in the AL East) vs. Boston Red Sox (16-22, fifth in the AL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[77317,113576,113570,64907,70652,108685,85676,113573,84499,113571,9004,73022,106714,113574,84505,73020,113575,135,3815,137,136,113572,113493,84506],"class_list":["post-263262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-ceddanne-rafaela","tag-danny-coulombe","tag-edwin-uceta","tag-event_preview","tag-jesse-scholtens","tag-joe-boyle","tag-johan-oviedo","tag-junior-caminero","tag-justin-slaten","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-manuel-rodriguez","tag-michael-grove","tag-romy-gonzalez","tag-ryan-pepiot","tag-steven-matz","tag-steven-wilson","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-triston-casas","tag-willson-contreras","tag-yandy-diaz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263262","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=263262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}