{"id":336580,"date":"2026-07-11T03:29:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T03:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/336580\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T03:29:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T03:29:15","slug":"rays-go-deep-4-times-in-7-2-win-over-mariners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/336580\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays go deep 4 times in 7-2 win over Mariners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Junior Caminero <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLB\/status\/2075748890662367620\" rel=\"nofollow\">hit his 28th homer<\/a>, one of four longballs for Tampa Bay, and All-Star Nick Martinez pitched effectively into the sixth inning as the Rays beat the Seattle Mariners 7-2 on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Richie Palacios, Cedric Mullins and Victor Mesa Jr. hit solo shots.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez (8-2) allowed two runs and four hits in 5 1\/3 innings. The 35-year-old right-hander got his first All-Star nod earlier Friday, replacing <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/red-sox-ranger-suarez-9f8ee4dd6db74a71557c56ed56c6fadd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">injured Boston left-hander Ranger Su\u00e1rez<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Mariners, who were just swept by the Marlins in Miami, have lost four straight to fall behind Texas into second in the AL West.<\/p>\n<p>Caminero doubled and scored on a two-out single by Chandler Simpson to make it 1-0 in the third. In the seventh, he hit an opposite-field, two-run shot to right against Jose Ferrer that put Tampa Bay ahead 6-2.<\/p>\n<p>Palacios led off the fourth with a 396-foot shot off Mariners starter Luis Castillo (3-8).<\/p>\n<p>Mullins fouled off consecutive two-strike pitches before he hit a slider over the wall in right field and Mesa added a 398-foot shot \u2014 also off a two-strike slider \u2014 that made it 4-1 in the fifth.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle&#8217;s Cole Young hit his 11th home run of the season in the fifth, and Dominic Canzone had an RBI grounder in the sixth.<\/p>\n<p>Castillo gave up four runs and nine hits in five innings.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Mariners RHP Logan Gilbert (7-5, 3.19 ERA) starts Saturday opposite Rays RHP Griffin Jax (4-6, 3.60).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Junior Caminero hit his 28th homer, one of four longballs for Tampa Bay,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336581,"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-336580","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\/336580","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=336580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}