Johnny Deluca worked a base-loaded walk and Tampa Bay made four runs at the top of the ninth when Ray’s defeated Philadelphia Phillies 5-4 on Thursday in Clearwater, FLA.
Ray’s Prospect Brock Jones met home in the first two bats in the spring and binds the game at 4 at the top of the ninth with a two-run shot by the former Tampa Bay-Reliever Joel Kuhnel.
Jones came to the record in the eighth round of his care debut with Rays down 3-0 and deposited a 1-1 quick ball in the middle in the picnic area in the right center. After Tampa brought a new driving home in the ninth, Jones buried against Kuhnel with two outs and a runner on the third. He smoked the first pitch for a game -binding home run before other basseman Curtis Mead reached the base for the fifth time in the game with a single.
Mead came in to score on Deluca’s walk and the Phillies went quietly at the bottom of the ninth with two strikes by the right hand Nathan Wiles.
Mead went 4-for-4 to raise its average to .778 (14-for-18) this spring.
The Phillies went up 2-0 in the fourth when Nick Castellanos and Max Kepler Bälte Back-to-back home open to the right field.
Castellanos lifted his first home run in the spring just over the fence in the right from the rays right hand Manuel Rodriguez for a 1-0 Philadelphia lead. Rodriguez served another long ball two pitch later when Kepler plastered a 1-0 pitch that landed well out of the ball park fence.
The right hand Aaron Nola knocked out six in three speechless innings for Phillies.
Citizens 12, Cardinals 1
Keibert Ruiz met two home races, Nasim Nunez had three of Washington’s 13 hits and his right hand Michael Soroka Whiffed Six in four rounds when citizens beat St. Louis in Jupiter, Fla.
Willson Contreras had two hits and St. Louis collected five singles, including Brendan Donovan’s driving here to Center Plating Lars Nootbar in the fourth round.
Ruiz went deep in the fourth and followed No. 8 Hitter Paul Dejong’s three-run blast in sixth with a fence shimmer to the right field that gave Washington a lead of 11-1.
Blue Jays 7, Red Sox 4
Bo Bichette singled in his first three bats and Toronto got back-to-back home purchases from Eric Clement and Dylan Schneider in the second round to walk past Boston in Dunedin, FLA.
Bichete went 3-for-4 on the management site as part of the ongoing experiment with Vlad Guerrero Jr. Who hit him and scored goals in the first round. After a single, Bichete came around on Guerrero’s double by right -wing dealer Cooper Criswell. Jaysna tagged Criswell for four earned runs and five hits in 1 2/3 rounds.
Jay’s right -hander Andrew Bash knocked out the page for the rescue in the ninth round.
Twins 8, Yankees 4
Matt Wallner met a three-run Homer in the second round and Minnesota roughly up New York Ace Gerrit Cole for six runs in 2 2/3 rounds in Tampa, FLA.
Wallner’s Blast finished a five-run second round and Brooks Lee added a solo shot in the third off Cole. Mike Ford and Mickey Gasper (3-for-4, two RBI) hammered from Yankees-Relievers.
JC Escarra hammered in the ninth for New York and was 2-for-3 with three RBI. Cole was drawn after Wallner’s blast with two outs in the second and then brought back to beat the third round.
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