Tampa Bay Rays at Minnesota Twins

· Major League Baseball

Tampa Bay Rays

4-5, 4-5 Away

Final
4 - 1

Minnesota Twins

3-6, 1-2 Home

Richie Palacios hits 2-run homer in 10th inning to lift Rays over Twins 4-1

Junior Caminero also went deep for Tampa Bay, which concluded a nine-game, 11-day, season-opening road trip with the 900th career win for manager Kevin Cash.

Leading off the extra inning, Palacios hit his first home run of the season to right field on the second pitch he saw from Justin Topa (0-1). A bases-loaded walk by Caminero scored another run.

Bryan Baker (1-0) struck out two of the three batters he faced in the ninth inning for the win. Kevin Kelly earned his second save with a scoreless 10th.

Matt Wallner homered for the Twins, who had just three hits for the second straight game, and are hitting .192 as a team.

Caminero’s fourth-inning home run off Simeon Woods Richardson came on a pitch that was 1.14 feet above the ground, the third-lowest a Rays batter has homered on since Statcast began in 2015, behind only Corey Dickerson (0.82 feet on Oct. 1, 2016) and Brad Miller (1.08 feet on June 11, 2016).

Woods Richardson allowed one earned run on five hits and struck out four in 6 2/3 innings for Minnesota.

Nick Martinez pitched six innings of one-hit ball — Wallner’s second-inning home run — and struck out four for Tampa Bay. He is the first Rays pitcher since Jake Faria in 2017 to record a quality start in each of his first two outings with the team.

Byron Buxton was hitless in four at-bats as Minnesota’s designated hitter extended his slump to 0 for 19. Buxton was hit in the right forearm by a pitch Friday and sat out Saturday.

Up next Rays: Return to Tropicana Field Monday for the first time since Sept. 22, 2024, with LHP Shane McClanahan (0-1, 3.86) opposing Cubs’ RHP Jameson Taillon (0-0, 0.00).

Twins: RHP Joe Ryan (0-1, 4.82) is to face Detroit RHP Casey Mize (0-1, 1.50) to open a four-game home series Monday.

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Scoring Summary

	10th Inning	Bell lined out to right.
	10th Inning	Bell hit for Martin
	10th Inning	Larnach flied out to center.
	10th Inning	Jeffers struck out swinging.
	10th Inning	Kelly relieved Baker
	10th Inning	Fraley in right field.

Statistics

TB		MIN
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
0	Ground Balls	0
5	Strikeouts	7
4	Runs Batted In	1
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
8	Hits	3
1	Stolen Bases	0
5	Walks	2
0	Catcher Interference	0
4	Runs	1
2	Ground Into Double Play	0
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
36	At Bats	32
2	Home Runs	1
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
16	Runners Left On Base	9
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
0	Doubles	0
0	Fly Balls	0
0	Caught Stealing	1
145	Pitches	144
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	1
14	Total Bases	6
41	Plate Appearances	34
324.0	Projected Home Runs	162.0
2	Extra Base Hits	1
4.2	Runs Created	-0.3
.222	Batting Average	.094
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.389	Slugging Percentage	.188
.333	Secondary Average	.125
.317	On Base Percentage	.147
.706	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.335
0.0	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.0
3.8	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	-0.3
31.0	Batter Rating	10.0
18.0	At Bats Per Home Run	32.0
1.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
3.54	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.24
.167	Isolated Power	.094
1.00	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.29
.122	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.059
.111	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.031
8.0	Runs Produced	2.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.5	Patience Ratio	0.2
0.2	Balls In Play Average	0.1
82.3	MLB Rating	61.3
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0