{"id":399087,"date":"2026-09-14T02:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T02:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/399087\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T02:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T02:48:11","slug":"rays-beat-astros-14-4-to-sweep-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/399087\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays beat Astros 14-4 to sweep series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Freddy Peralta pitched five hitless innings, and Jonathan Aranda hit two of Tampa Bay&#8217;s four home runs to help the Rays finish off a three-game sweep of the Houston Astros with a 14-4 victory on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Peralta (9-11) walked three and threw 86 pitches for the Rays, who became the first AL team to reach 90 wins this season. The right-hander won his fourth straight start and has surrendered two runs over his last 23 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Victor Mesa Jr. had three of the Rays&#8217; 15 hits. He had a two-run triple in the first inning off Hayden Wesneski (5-2) before scoring on Chandler Simpson&#8217;s groundout to give Tampa Bay the lead for good.<\/p>\n<p>Every Rays starter had at least one hit and scored at least one run.<\/p>\n<p>Richie <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RaysBaseball\/status\/2099207279513944525?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Palacios hit<\/a> his 10th homer \u2014 a three-run shot for a 7-0 lead after shortstop Jeremy Pe\u00f1a dropped a two-out pop-up to extend the third inning.<\/p>\n<p>Aranda hit a one-out solo shot off Enyel De Los Santos in the fourth before adding his 21st home run this season in the seventh \u2014 a two-run shot off Ronel Blanco. Nick Fortes hit his fifth homer \u2014 a two-run shot in the fifth off Blanco to make it 11-0.<\/p>\n<p>Isaac Paredes hit a two-run homer in the sixth \u2014 his 21st \u2014 for Houston&#8217;s first hit. It came against Brody Hopkins, who replaced Peralta in his major league debut and walked Nick Allen on four pitches.<\/p>\n<p>Allen hit his third homer and Nelson Vel\u00e1zquez added his sixth as the pair hit back-to-back solo shots off Casey Legumina in the eighth.<\/p>\n<p>Wesneski gave up seven runs \u2014 three earned \u2014 on six hits in three innings.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Astros RHP Hunter Brown (5-3, 3.52) starts Tuesday in Houston against the Royals.<\/p>\n<p>Rays RHP Griffin Jax (7-10, 3.99) starts Tuesday against the visiting Athletics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Freddy Peralta pitched five hitless innings, and Jonathan Aranda hit two of Tampa&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2205,28,115,29645,110,202,204,203,199,201,200,135,3815],"class_list":["post-399087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-associated-press","tag-florida","tag-news","tag-professional-baseball","tag-sports","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-rays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399087","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=399087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}