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The Rays came away with one of the best wins in all of Major League Baseball in 2025 on Wednesday night.
If you missed it, you can get a great recap of the wild finish here.
After trailing 8–0 through two innings, Tampa Bay scored the next 12 runs over a five-inning span to win the game 12–8.
That begged the question following the game: just how hot are the Rays? They certainly have been playing some of the best baseball in all of Major League Baseball. The win on Wednesday pushed them to 41-33 on the season and moved them to within 1.5 games of the Yankees at the top of the division.
When speaking after a recent loss to the Orioles, Rays manager Kevin Cash had the following to say: “A lot of things have been going our way lately.”
That they have.
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Dating back to a 4-3 loss to the Houston Astros on May 19, the Rays have gone 20-7 over their last 27 games. When they fell to Houston toward the end of May, they were five games below .500, and the Yankees were surging. Now, the opposite is happening, causing a logjam at the top of the division, which includes four teams within five games of each other.
While scoring 12 runs helps, the Rays have done much of their damage on the mound. In 16 games in June, they’ve held opponents to four runs or fewer in 11. In a recent stretch where they swept the first-place New York Mets, the Rays allowed just three runs per game. Tampa Bay sits 7th in the league with a team ERA of 3.49, while their WHIP is even better at 1.16, which ranks third in the league.
But you can’t give all the credit to the pitching. The Rays scored 12 runs on Wednesday, and in the first game of the series, Tampa Bay put up seven on Baltimore. In fact, over the last six games they’ve won, they are averaging 8.8 runs per game.
Regardless of how June finishes for the Rays, getting back in the race has fans excited and will make things even more competitive for the capacity crowd of 10,046 at George M. Steinbrenner Field as the summer moves on.
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