{"id":322189,"date":"2026-06-28T00:52:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T00:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/322189\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T00:52:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T00:52:20","slug":"caminero-and-mullens-homer-in-the-rays-6-1-win-over-the-diamondbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/322189\/","title":{"rendered":"Caminero and Mullens homer in the Rays\u2019 6-1 win over the Diamondbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/sportstalkflorida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Rays-Defeat-Diamondbacks-Junior-Caminero.jpg\" data-caption=\"Tampa Bay Rays&#039; Junior Caminero (13) and Yandy D\u00edaz celebrate after Diaz scores on a double by Jonathan Aranda, not pictured, during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Arizona Diamondbacks Friday, June 26, 2026, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (AP Photo\/Jason Behnken)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"460\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Rays-Defeat-Diamondbacks-Junior-Caminero-696x460.jpg\"   alt=\"Tampa Bay Rays' Junior Caminero (13) and Yandy D\u00edaz celebrate after Diaz scores on a double by Jonathan Aranda, not pictured, during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Arizona Diamondbacks Friday, June 26, 2026, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (AP Photo\/Jason Behnken)\" title=\"Rays Defeat Diamondbacks Junior Caminero\"\/><\/a>Tampa Bay Rays&#8217; Junior Caminero (13) and Yandy D\u00edaz celebrate after Diaz scores on a double by Jonathan Aranda, not pictured, during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Arizona Diamondbacks Friday, June 26, 2026, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (AP Photo\/Jason Behnken)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Junior Caminero hit a three-run homer in the first inning, Cedric Mullins connected in the seventh \u2014 both off Zac Gallen \u2014 and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 6-1 on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Caminero hit a 427-foot shot to center in the first after Yandy D\u00edaz walked and Jonathan Aranda was hit by a pitch. Caminero has 20 homers this season, five in the last four games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the seventh, Mullins had a solo shot for his seventh of the year. Gallen (3-7) pitched 6 2\/3 innings, allowing five earned runs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nick Martinez (7-2) pitched 5 2\/3 innings, giving up five hits but only one earned run. He struck out three and walked one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Geraldo Perdomo hit a solo home run on the seventh pitch of the game for the Diamondbacks.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">RHP Jose Cabrera (0-0, 0.00 ERA) was set to make his second start of the season for Arizona on Saturday. The Rays had not announced a starter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AP MLB:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Rays&#8217; Junior Caminero (13) and Yandy D\u00edaz celebrate after Diaz scores on a double by Jonathan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[24223,202,204,203,199,201,200,3815],"class_list":["post-322189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa-bay-rays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322189","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=322189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}