{"id":329101,"date":"2026-07-04T05:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T05:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/329101\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T05:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T05:31:08","slug":"rays-beat-astros-3-1-for-9th-straight-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/329101\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays beat Astros 3-1 for 9th straight win"},"content":{"rendered":"

HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Nick Fortes homered and hit a run-scoring double, Junior Caminero added a solo shot, and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Houston Astros 3-1 on Friday night to extend the longest active win streak in the major leagues to nine games.<\/p>\n

The Rays have homered in a season-high eight consecutive games. Tampa Bay had its streak of nine straight games scoring at least four runs snapped.<\/p>\n

Steven Okert (1-1) replaced starter Spencer Arrighetti to begin the seventh and struck out Jonathan Aranda swinging before Caminero hit a 1-1 slider over the wall in left<\/a> field to give the Rays a 2-1 lead.<\/p>\n

Kevin Kelly (5-3) pitched 1 2\/3 innings of no-hit relief for the win.<\/p>\n

Bryan Baker pitched a 1-2-3 ninth for 23rd save this season.<\/p>\n

Yordan Alvarez hit his American League-leading 27th home run this season, a 427-foot shot off Rays starter Nick Martinez in the sixth that made it 1-1. Philadelphia’s Kyle Schwarber leads MLB with 30 homers.<\/p>\n

Caminero has 25 homer runs, tied with Minnesota’s Byron Buxton for second in the AL. The 22-year-old Caminero had a string of six consecutive games with a homer snapped Thursday in a 5-2<\/a> win at Kansas City<\/p>\n

Fortes hit a two-out solo shot, his second this season, in the sixth inning that opened the scoring.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay’s Cedric Mullins went 0 for 4 and snapped his career-long streak of reaching base in 25 straight starts.<\/p>\n

Arrighetti gave up a run and two hits.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Rays RHP Drew Rasmussen (7-4, 2.45 ERA) starts Saturday against RHP Hunter Brown (1-0, 1.78) in the second of a three-game series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Nick Fortes homered and hit a run-scoring double, Junior Caminero added a solo shot, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329102,"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-329101","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\/329101","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=329101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}