{"id":274738,"date":"2026-05-18T03:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T03:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/274738\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T03:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T03:20:11","slug":"walls-fourth-inning-triple-lifts-rays-over-marlins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/274738\/","title":{"rendered":"Walls’ fourth-inning triple lifts Rays over Marlins"},"content":{"rendered":"

Taylor Walls’ fourth-inning triple scored three for the Tampa Bay Rays, who beat the visiting Miami Marlins 6-3 on Sunday and took two of three in the rivalry weekend series.<\/p>\n

Drew Rasmussen (4-1) gave up seven hits and a pair of walks over 5 1\/3 innings, but the Rays right-hander yielded just two runs as he won for the second consecutive start.<\/p>\n

Junior Caminero and Yandy Diaz homered off Marlins pitcher Eury Perez (2-6), who saw his personal losing streak extend to five starts. Caminero’s solo shot, his team-best 12th home run of the season, came in the first to give the Rays an early lead.<\/p>\n

Miami jumped ahead with a two-run third thanks to RBI singles by Xavier Edwards (2 for 5) and Otto Lopez (2 for 4).<\/p>\n

That lead lasted until the Rays’ fourth. Diaz started the inning with a walk. An out later, Jonny DeLuca (2 for 4) doubled and Cedric Mullins drew a walk to load the bases. Perez and Nick Fortes battled for eight pitches before Diaz was forced at home on a fielder’s choice.<\/p>\n

However, Walls, the Rays’ No. 9 hitter, jumped on the first pitch he saw, smacking a fly ball to deep center that bounced off the wall to give Tampa Bay a two-run lead. The Rays shortstop has now hit safely in six straight games for the second time this season.<\/p>\n

Diaz’s seventh homer came in the bottom of the fifth, extending the lead to three. Caminero walked with the bases loaded in the following inning. Miami outhit Tampa Bay 11-7, but Marlins pitchers gave up six walks.<\/p>\n

The Marlins had two runners on base in both the fifth and sixth innings, but saw those threats end with double plays.<\/p>\n

They finally chipped away in the eighth, with Kyle Stowers’ single off Garrett Clevenger scoring Lopez, who reached with a one-out double. Connor Norby doubled, and Jakob Marsee (2 for 3) walked to load the bases, chasing the reliever. However, Ian Seymour struck out Leo Jimenez, and pinch-hitter Heriberto Hernandez lined out to end the inning.<\/p>\n

Bryan Baker allowed only a hit in the ninth to earn his 12th save and give the Rays their 12th victory in 15 games this month.<\/p>\n

Perez went five innings, allowing five runs, five hits and four walks. He fanned five in a laborious 102-pitch outing.<\/p>\n


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John Devine has worked with the Miami Herald since 1996. He has worked as a Broward sports editor, Broward news editor, assistant sports editor and deputy sports editor before he became executive sports editor in 2021.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taylor Walls’ fourth-inning triple scored three for the Tampa Bay Rays, who beat the visiting Miami Marlins 6-3…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-274738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274738","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=274738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}