{"id":320336,"date":"2026-06-26T05:57:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T05:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/320336\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T05:57:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T05:57:22","slug":"caminero-has-three-homers-as-rays-nearly-no-hit-royals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/320336\/","title":{"rendered":"Caminero has three homers as Rays nearly no-hit Royals"},"content":{"rendered":"

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Junior Caminero hit three home runs and drove in six runs, Victor Mesa Jr. added a three-run homer and three pitchers combined for 8 1\/3 no-hit innings<\/a> to lead the Tampa Bay Rays to a 13-2 victory against the Kansas City Royals on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Opener Casey Legumina retired the first four batters before Ian Seymour (4-1) took over in the second inning. The pair combined to retire the first 16 Kansas City batters before Starling Marte drew a one-out walk in the sixth off Seymour.<\/p>\n

Craig Kimbrel started the ninth with a walk to Marte, then struck out Tyler Tolbert before allowing a two-run home run to Carter Jensen to the right-field stands for the Royals\u2019 only hit of the game.<\/p>\n

The Rays salvaged a split of the four-game series after dropping the first two games.<\/p>\n

Tolbert, who started at shortstop for Kansas City, moved to the mound for the eighth inning, allowing five runs on six hits.<\/p>\n

Caminero tied a franchise record with his three home runs and registered his sixth career multi-homer game and second this season. He hit a two-run home run in the first inning and added a solo shot in the fifth, both off Seth Lugo (3-5), before going deep off Tolbert in the ninth. Mesa hit a three-run shot to right field in the fourth.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay\u2019s Yandy Diaz extended his hitting streak to nine games with a seventh-inning double.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Royals open a three-game series at the Chicago White Sox on Friday, with both teams yet to announce a starter.<\/p>\n

Rays open a three-game series at home on Friday against Arizona with RHP Nick Martinez (6-2, 2.73 ERA) set to start while the Diamondbacks had yet to announce their starter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Junior Caminero hit three home runs and drove in six runs, Victor Mesa…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2205,28,115,29645,110,135,3815,137,136],"class_list":["post-320336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-associated-press","tag-florida","tag-news","tag-professional-baseball","tag-sports","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320336","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=320336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}