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Orioles win in extras, overtake Rays as best team in AL East

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Rays took hold of the American League East on the second day of the season. They remained in first place for 97 straight days until Thursday night.

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Rays can’t find the big hits again, waste strong Taj Bradley start

ARLINGTON, Texas — The Rays keep waiting and waiting for the hitters they have to get back to producing runs as they did earlier in the season.

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Rays win nightcap to sweep Royals in doubleheader

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The good news is the bottom line: The Rays resumed play after their rain-extended All-Star break with a doubleheader sweep of the Royals, winning the opener, 6-1, and the nightcap, 4-2.

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Rays open post-break play with win in Game 1 of doubleheader vs. Royals

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — At first look, the extended All-Star break didn’t have the effect the Rays hoped for of putting a charge back into their offense.

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Rays come up short against Blue Jays, fall a game back

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Rays and Blue Jays engaged in another tense battle Saturday, this time swapping zeroes into the seventh inning.

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Rays waste opportunities in 4-3 loss to Rangers

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Rays began the season’s final homestand on a sour note Friday night with a tension-filled 4-3 defeat against the Texas Rangers before an announced crowd of 14,127 at Tropicana Field.

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Rays beat Yankees again, cut AL East lead to 4 games

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Rays can keep trying to avoid talking about the American League East race all they want.

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Rays do enough to beat Yankees in series opener

NEW YORK — When the Rays were last at Yankee Stadium for a mid-June series, they pitched very well, didn’t hit much and lost all three games.

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Rays walk their way to ninth-inning rally, beat Tigers

DETROIT —The Rays and Tigers went back and forth for eight-plus scoreless innings Sunday waiting for someone to get a big hit.

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Rays find their way to another win over Red Sox

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The breaks seemed to be going against the Rays on Tuesday night.

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Rays lose another walk-off to Reds, and Wander Franco to injury

CINCINNATI — Friday was bad, with the Rays losing for the first time in franchise history on a walk-off balk in the 10th inning.

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Rays lose to Reds on walk-off balk in 10th inning

CINCINNATI — Shane McClanahan gave the Rays another strong start Friday, but they couldn’t take advantage and lost to the Reds, 2-1.

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Wander Franco headed for weekend return to Rays

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Wander Franco did well in the first two games of his minor-league rehab assignment and will join Triple-A Durham for three games in Jacksonville with the potential to rejoin the Rays this weekend.

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Rays scratch out just enough to beat Yankees

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Rays kept talking about needing something to somehow get some offense going.

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Tampa’s Francisco Mejia amazingly struck out on a pitch that hit him and MLB fans had jokes

This was easily the most hilarious/painful strike out of the season.

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Starter Vince Velasquez, White Sox can’t overcome rocky first inning in loss to Rays

Velasquez allowed four first-inning runs, the offense struggled to convert scoring chances and the Sox were unable to complete a three-game sweep.

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Francisco Mejia leads way again as Rays improve to 2-0

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Catcher Francisco Mejia came to the Rays last year and got adjusted to both his role as the backup to starter Mike Zunino as well as the Rays’ way of using bench players often and sometimes unpredictably.

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Rays rally to beat Orioles, make opening day a party

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — All the traditional signs of opening day were in place at Tropicana Field on Friday afternoon. The bunting was hung, the seats were full, and optimism, even about a new stadium, was in the air.

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