{"id":357126,"date":"2026-07-30T03:40:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T03:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/357126\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T03:40:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T03:40:32","slug":"diaz-vilade-power-tampa-bay-rays-past-rangers-in-3-0-shutout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/357126\/","title":{"rendered":"Diaz, Vilade power Tampa Bay Rays past Rangers in 3-0 shutout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yandy Diaz and Ryan Vilade homered in the first inning and five pitchers combined for a four-hitter as the Tampa Bay Rays beat the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/sports\/rangers\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Texas Rangers<\/a> 3-0 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Seymour (7-2) allowed just two hits in 4 2\/3 innings of bulk relief behind opener Casey Legumina, who allowed one hit in 1 2\/3 innings. Garret Cleavinger pitched out of a seventh-inning jam, and Kevin Kelly struck out the side in the eighth.<\/p>\n<p>Bryan Baker converted his 19th consecutive save and 29th overall with a scoreless final inning to close out the ninth shutout this season for AL East-leading Tampa Bay. It was the Rays&#8217; third shutout in four games.<\/p>\n<p>Texas starter MacKenzie Gore (6-9) allowed three hits and struck out nine in seven innings, retiring 20 of the final 21 batters he faced. The Rangers held the Rays without a hit for the final 7 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay jumped on Gore in the first inning as Diaz led off with a 372-foot, opposite-field shot to right. Jonathan Aranda followed with a double before Vilade hit a two-run homer with one out that struck the &#8220;D&#8221; Ring in left field.<\/p>\n<p>Seymour allowed a one-out double in the third before retiring 10 consecutive batters.<\/p>\n<p>Texas put runners on first and second with one out in the seventh after a double by Jake Burger and walk to Nicky Lopez. But Cleavinger struck out Cam Cauley before Alejandro Osuna bounced out in front of the plate to end the threat.<\/p>\n<p>Rays LHP Shane McClanahan (9-6, 3.09 ERA) is scheduled to start the series finale on Thursday against Rangers RHP Cole Winn (5-3, 6.11).<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yandy Diaz and Ryan Vilade homered in the first inning and five pitchers combined for a four-hitter as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[9004,110,135,3815,137,136,54141],"class_list":["post-357126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-sports","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-texas-rangers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357126","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=357126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}