{"id":298245,"date":"2026-06-06T09:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T09:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/298245\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T09:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T09:08:07","slug":"tampa-bay-rays-and-miami-marlins-play-in-game-2-of-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/298245\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Rays and Miami Marlins play in game 2 of series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> (37-23, first in the AL East) vs. Miami Marlins<\/a> (29-35, fourth in the NL East)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Rays: Shane McClanahan<\/a> (6-2, 2.45 ERA, 1.02 WHIP, 53 strikeouts); Marlins: Lake Bachar<\/a> (0-0, 3.45 ERA, 0.96 WHIP, 35 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Rays -147, Marlins +123; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Tampa Bay Rays lead 1-0 in a three-game series with the Miami Marlins.<\/p>\n

Miami is 29-35 overall and 18-16 at home. The Marlins have the eighth-ranked team on-base percentage in the NL at .319.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay is 37-23 overall and 16-14 on the road. The Rays have gone 25-6 in games when they scored five or more runs.<\/p>\n

The matchup Saturday is the fifth time these teams square off this season. The Rays hold a 3-1 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Liam Hicks<\/a> ranks third on the Marlins with 17 extra base hits (five doubles and 12 home runs). Heriberto Hernandez<\/a> is 9 for 25 with four home runs and 11 RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Yandy Diaz<\/a> has a .320 batting average to lead the Rays, and has 10 doubles, a triple and 11 home runs. Junior Caminero<\/a> is 14 for 36 with a home run and three RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Marlins: 4-6, .230 batting average, 5.02 ERA, outscored by 13 runs<\/p>\n

Rays: 3-7, .243 batting average, 6.13 ERA, outscored by 29 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Marlins: Josh Ekness: 15-Day IL (calf), Andrew Nardi<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ribs), Griffin Conine: 60-Day IL (hamstring), Janson Junk: 15-Day IL (shin), Eury Perez<\/a>: 15-Day IL (gracilis), Robby Snelling: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ronny Henriquez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Adam Mazur<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Rays: Craig Kimbrel: 15-Day IL (wrist), Chandler Simpson<\/a>: day-to-day (thumb), Jon Heasley: 15-Day IL (elbow), Manuel Rodriguez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jonny Deluca: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Steven Wilson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (back), Michael Grove<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Gavin Lux: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jesse Scholtens<\/a>: 15-Day IL (wrist), Jake Fraley<\/a>: 10-Day IL (groin), Ryan Pepiot<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hip), Edwin Uceta<\/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 (37-23, first in the AL East) vs. Miami Marlins (29-35, fourth in the NL East)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[125504,96127,48421,64907,96272,70652,105465,32783,108685,84499,123929,96271,9004,73022,3822,106714,125503,84505,74505,113575,135,3815,137,136,84506],"class_list":["post-298245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-adam-mazur","tag-andrew-nardi","tag-chandler-simpson","tag-edwin-uceta","tag-eury-perez","tag-event_preview","tag-heriberto-hernandez","tag-jake-fraley","tag-jesse-scholtens","tag-junior-caminero","tag-lake-bachar","tag-liam-hicks","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-manuel-rodriguez","tag-miami-marlins","tag-michael-grove","tag-ronny-henriquez","tag-ryan-pepiot","tag-shane-mcclanahan","tag-steven-wilson","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-yandy-diaz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298245","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=298245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298245\/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=298245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}