{"id":725632,"date":"2026-06-25T18:31:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T18:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/725632\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T18:31:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T18:31:23","slug":"rays-pitchers-combine-for-six-no-hit-innings-against-royals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/725632\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays pitchers combine for six no-hit innings against Royals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) \u2014 A pair of Tampa Bay Rays pitchers combined for eight no-hit innings against the Kansas City Royals on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Opener Casey Legumina retired all five batters he faced through 1 1\/3 innings before Ian Seymour took over in the second inning. Seymour has struck out seven batters.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay was leading Kansas City 8-0 behind a pair of home runs by Junior Caminero.<\/p>\n<p>The Rays retired the first 16 batters they faced before Starling Marte drew a one-out walk on a full count in the top of the sixth before Seymour retired Tyler Tolbert and Carter Jensen to end the inning.<\/p>\n<p>Left fielder Chandler Simpson made a running catch near the foul pole to track down a fly ball off the bat of Salvador Perez in the fifth to keep the perfect game intact.<\/p>\n<p>The Rays have never thrown a perfect game in franchise history. Matt Garza has the only no-hitter in Tampa Bay history on July 26, 2010, against the Detroit Tigers.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay has been no-hit six times in franchise history, the most recent on May 10, 2022, against the Los Angeles Angels\u2019 Reid Detmers. The last time Kansas City was no-hit was May 19, 2008, against Boston\u2019s Jon Lester.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) \u2014 A pair of Tampa Bay Rays pitchers combined for eight no-hit innings against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[230389,230388,2724,363,99],"class_list":["post-725632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ap-online","tag-ap-online-florida-news","tag-associated-press","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}