{"id":264616,"date":"2026-05-09T09:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T09:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/264616\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T09:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T09:35:09","slug":"boston-red-sox-host-the-tampa-bay-rays-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/264616\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Red Sox host the Tampa Bay Rays Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> (25-13, second in the AL East) vs. Boston Red Sox<\/a> (17-22, fourth in the AL East)<\/p>\n

Boston; Saturday, 4:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Rays: Nick Martinez<\/a> (3-1, 1.71 ERA, 1.02 WHIP, 28 strikeouts); Red Sox: Payton Tolle<\/a> (1-1, 2.04 ERA, 0.74 WHIP, 23 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Red Sox -154, Rays +128; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Boston Red Sox play the Tampa Bay Rays on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Boston is 7-11 in home games and 17-22 overall. The Red Sox have the ninth-ranked team batting average in the AL at .234.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay has an 11-9 record in road games and a 25-13 record overall. Rays hitters are batting a collective .254, which ranks second in the AL.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Saturday for the third time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Willson Contreras<\/a> has four doubles, eight home runs and 23 RBIs while hitting .259 for the Red Sox. Ceddanne Rafaela<\/a> is 11 for 39 with two home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Jonathan Aranda<\/a> has five doubles, seven home runs and 29 RBIs for the Rays. Yandy Diaz<\/a> is 9 for 35 with a double and two home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Red Sox: 5-5, .237 batting average, 3.34 ERA, outscored by three runs<\/p>\n

Rays: 8-2, .248 batting average, 1.31 ERA, outscored opponents by 17 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), 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 (25-13, second in the AL East) vs. Boston Red Sox (17-22, fourth 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":[77317,113576,113570,64907,70652,85676,113573,84503,113571,9004,73022,106714,72086,114047,113574,84505,73020,113575,135,3815,137,136,113572,113493,84506],"class_list":["post-264616","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-joe-boyle","tag-johan-oviedo","tag-jonathan-aranda","tag-justin-slaten","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-manuel-rodriguez","tag-michael-grove","tag-nick-martinez","tag-payton-tolle","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\/264616","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=264616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264616\/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=264616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}