Tampa Bay Rays at Kansas City Royals

· Major League Baseball

Tampa Bay Rays

46-35, 19-12 Away

Final
4 - 0

Kansas City Royals

38-43, 19-22 Home

Shane Baz goes 8 scoreless in longest start of career as Rays blank Royals 4-0 for 3-game sweep

Brandon Lowe, Junior Caminero crush back-to-back HRs

Baz (8-3) struck out nine and walked one. Jacob Lowe had three hits for the Rays, and Jake Mangum hit a run-scoring triple.

Tampa Bay has won five of six to move a season-high 11 games above .500 (46-35) and a half-game behind the AL East-leading New York Yankees, who were off Thursday.

Paul Gervase gave up singles to Jonathan India and Vinnie Pasquantino before Pete Fairbanks came on with one out in the ninth and got Maikel Garcia to ground into a 6-4-3 double play for his 15th save.

Tampa Bay starters have thrown 22 2/3 consecutive scoreless innings.

The Royals were also shut out on Wednesday and scored one run in their three losses to the Rays. Kansas City has gone 14-27 (.341) — third worst in the majors over that span — since starting the season 24-16 (.600).

Key moment Jonathan Aranda hit a two-out double and then scored on Mangum's triple off starter Michael Lorenzen (4-8) before Josh Lowe added an RBI single to cap Tampa Bay's two-run fourth.

Key stat The Rays are the first team in the majors to sweep three road series this season. Tampa Bay swept a three-game series at the New York Mets earlier this month and won three straight at San Diego in April.

Up next Tampa Bay's Ryan Pepiot (5-6, 3.04 ERA) takes the mound Friday against host Baltimore’s Tomoyuki Sugano (5-4, 3.55). Kansas City's Noah Cameron (2-3, 2.08) pitches against right-hander Dustin May (4-5, 4.46) of the visiting Los Angeles Dodgers.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Garcia grounded into double play, shortstop to second to first, Pasquantino out at second.
	9th Inning	Fairbanks relieved Gervase
	9th Inning	Pasquantino reached on bunt single to pitcher, India to second.
	9th Inning	Witt Jr. flied out to center.
	9th Inning	India singled to left.
	9th Inning	Gervase relieved Baz

Statistics

TB		KC
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
13	Ground Balls	12
7	Strikeouts	9
4	Runs Batted In	0
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
9	Hits	5
1	Stolen Bases	0
1	Walks	1
0	Catcher Interference	0
4	Runs	0
0	Ground Into Double Play	2
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
35	At Bats	30
2	Home Runs	0
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
8	Runners Left On Base	9
2	Triples	0
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
2	Doubles	1
15	Fly Balls	9
0	Caught Stealing	0
134	Pitches	109
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	0
21	Total Bases	6
36	Plate Appearances	31
324.0	Projected Home Runs	0.0
6	Extra Base Hits	1
6.2	Runs Created	-0.1
.257	Batting Average	.167
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.600	Slugging Percentage	.200
.400	Secondary Average	.067
.278	On Base Percentage	.194
.878	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.394
0.9	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	1.3
6.4	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	-0.1
41.0	Batter Rating	7.0
17.5	At Bats Per Home Run	0.0
1.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
3.72	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.52
.343	Isolated Power	.033
0.14	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.11
.028	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.032
.143	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	-.100
8.0	Runs Produced	0.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	0.0
0.6	Patience Ratio	0.2
0.3	Balls In Play Average	0.2
89.3	MLB Rating	61.8
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0