McClanahan will get MLB-best eleventh win, Arozarena has HR and 4 RBIs in Rays’ 6-2 win over Padres

SAN DIEGO (AP) – Shane McClanahan pitched into the seven inning to get his main league-leading eleventh win, Randy Arozarena homered and drove in 4 runs, and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the San Diego Padres 6-2 on Friday night time.

Tampa Bay is now 51-22 (.699 profitable share) – simply one of the best report in baseball, with seven wins greater than the Atlanta Braves. The Rays have gained 11 of their final 14 video games and are 15-7 in interleague play.

“Impressive win obviously, (McClanahan) was outstanding, putting together a pretty special season,” Rays supervisor Kevin Cash mentioned. “Any time he has a glitch – whether it is one batter or one inning – it seems like he has shown the ability, and the best ones do, to flush it and and move on from it.”

McClanahan (11-1) got here into the sport with the majors’ second-lowest ERA at 2.18. After permitting only one run and three hits with 5 strike outs in 6 2/3 innings, he lowered that to 2.12.

“It wasn’t my easiest outing, it wasn’t my best outing, it was gritty. I am pretty proud of that,” McClanahan mentioned. “If you were a betting man, I would put some money on Randy Arozarena to hit a home run here.”

The Padres‘ solely harm in opposition to him was a solo house run by Nelson Cruz within the seventh when the Rays had a 6-0 lead.

“He throws a bunch of pitches for strikes,” Cruz mentioned of McClanahan. “Definitely one of the best pitchers in the league.”

Tampa Bay reliever Pete Fairbanks got here in to work out of a bases-loaded, one-out jam within the ninth to earn his seventh save by getting Fernando Tatis Jr. to hit right into a 4-6-3 double play to finish the sport.

“Really clutch performance right there,” Cash mentioned of Fairbanks placing down the Padres last-chance rally. “We felt like at that point we needed to get our best in there….It is nice to have Pete back, we missed him while he was down.”

The Rays teed off on San Diego starter Yu Darvish (5-5), who gave up six runs, eight hits – together with two house runs – in 5 innings. He struck out 5.

With Tampa Bay main 3-0 within the fifth, Arozarena hit Darvish’s 94 mph sinker 402 ft into the left-field bleachers for a 6-0 benefit.

“I thought about my first at bat when he (Darvish) was throwing me a lot of sinkers and then when I got the base hit it was with an off-speed pitch so on that I one I was expecting a sinker,” Arozarena mentioned about his house run by an interpreter. “It was a little bit more inside than I thought. … But I trusted my hands to get to that ball.”

Isaac Paredes hit a solo homer to left off Darvish within the first inning to place the Rays forward 1-0.

“We were seeing him pretty well,” Paredes mentioned by an interpreter in regards to the Rays hitters versus Darvish. “We are all being very aggressive, everyone in the lineup does their part.”

Tampa Bay added a run within the fourth earlier than scoring 4 within the fifth. In the fourth, Luke Raley doubled and scored on Arozarena’s single to make it 2-0. Taylor Walls doubled to steer off the fifth and scored on Jose Siri’s RBI single. Raley doubled once more with two outs earlier than Arozarena’s three-run homer.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Padres: LHP Ryan Weathers was optioned to Triple-A El Paso after he allowed 12 runs throughout solely 6-1/3 innings in his previous three begins. Weathers will proceed to get common begins with El Paso. … LHP Tom Cosgrove (left hamstring pressure) was positioned on 15-day IL. Cosgrove felt his hamstring flare up whereas dealing with the Guardians on Thursday, although he was capable of end his outing. Over his first month-plus within the majors, Cosgrove posted a 0.53 ERA in 16 outings — together with a franchise-record 14 straight scoreless appearances to start out his profession. … RHP Nabil Crismatt (left hip pressure) was reinstated from 15-day IL. … LHP Ray Kerr was recalled from Triple-A El Paso, after registering a 3.63 ERA with 28 strike outs in 22 1/3 innings.

UP NEXT

Rays: RHP Zach Eflin (8-2, 3.28) goes for his ninth win Saturday.

Padres: LHP Blake Snell (2-6, 3.78) takes the mound within the second sport of the sequence.

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