{"id":285759,"date":"2026-05-27T05:25:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T05:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/285759\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T05:25:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T05:25:28","slug":"craig-kimbrel-pitches-a-scoreless-inning-in-his-rays-debut-after-signing-a-major-league-deal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/285759\/","title":{"rendered":"Craig Kimbrel pitches a scoreless inning in his Rays debut after signing a major league deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Craig Kimbrel pitched a scoreless inning in his debut for the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tampa-bay-rays\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> on Tuesday night, a few hours after the right-handed reliever was signed to a major league contract.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old Kimbrel came on in the eighth inning of the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/rays-orioles-score-999e7b7fdb41ff67ec4bafa89662958e\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rays&#8217; 6-1 loss<\/a> to the Baltimore Orioles. He struck out Leody Taveras and Jeremiah Jackson before giving up a single on a soft grounder by Colton Cowser. Kimbrel then retired Blaze Alexander on a groundout.<\/p>\n<p>The Rays placed right-hander Jesse Scholtens on the 15-day injured list with a right wrist strain to make room for Kimbrel on the active roster.<\/p>\n<p>The <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/new-york-mets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Mets<\/a> designated Kimbrel for assignment last Friday after the nine-time All-Star allowed 10 runs over 15 innings in 14 appearances. He signed a free agent contract with the team in January.<\/p>\n<p>Kimbrel has 440 saves with 10 teams in his 17-year career. He won a World Series with Boston in 2018 and was the 2011 NL Rookie of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>The Rays have the AL&#8217;s best record at 34-18, but their bullpen&#8217;s ERA of 4.40 entering Tuesday night ranked 21st in the majors.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/MLB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Craig Kimbrel pitched a scoreless inning in his debut for the Tampa Bay Rays&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[121010,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-285759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-craig-kimbrel-tampa-bay-rays","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285759","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=285759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}