{"id":408588,"date":"2026-09-23T20:32:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T20:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/408588\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T20:32:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T20:32:17","slug":"tampa-bay-rays-vs-bucs-joebucsfan-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/408588\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Rays Vs. Bucs &#8211; JoeBucsFan.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tTampa Bay Rays Vs. Bucs<br \/>\nSeptember 23rd, 2026 <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-324168 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/baker-mayfield-rays-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"193\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">What a contrast it was last night to see the Rays\u2019 killer instinct on display in New York as they clinched the best record in the American League and home field advantage on their path to the World Series (hopefully). <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Killer instinct! It\u2019s what Todd Bowles said the Bucs needed desperately prior to the 2025 season. That\u2019s 2025, not 2026.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">First, \u201cthis Joe\u201d nearly teared up when the Rays pulled an old school bunt single to seize what became the winning run (video below). And then a key insurance run in their taking out of the Yankees came after an aggressive wave home of a runner by the third base coach on an outfield hit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It sure was a weird few days to be a fan of Tampa Bay sports. The Bucs literally hit rock bottom, losing to the Browns at home, while the Rays capped off their improbably regular season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This cannot be good for Bucs ticket sales. And yes, Joe saw all those thousands of pre-rain empty seats at The Licht House on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">Perfectly Taylored \ud83e\udd0c <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aARP1td10g\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/aARP1td10g<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tampa Bay Rays (@RaysBaseball) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RaysBaseball\/status\/2102563332142076356?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 23, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">Goggles required \ud83e\udd7d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3F4U1fczH5\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/3F4U1fczH5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tampa Bay Rays (@RaysBaseball) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RaysBaseball\/status\/2102618563412386245?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 23, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Rays Vs. Bucs September 23rd, 2026 What a contrast it was last night to see the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10998,10997,135,2964,137,136],"class_list":["post-408588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-bucs-message-boards","tag-bucs-news","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408588","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=408588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}