Cleveland Guardians 0 – 3 Tampa Bay Rays

MLB · July 25, 2026 · Final

🎧 Post-Game Report (audio)

Post-Game Recap

The Tampa Bay Rays shut out the Cleveland Guardians three to nothing on Friday night, and this one was decided early and never looked back. Tampa wasted no time in the fifth inning — Yandy Díaz got things moving, and when Junior Caminero doubled to right, Díaz came around to score and Aranda moved to third. Two batters later, Cedric Mullins lifted a sacrifice fly to left, and just like that the Rays had two on the board before Cleveland could blink. They came right back in the sixth, Mesa Jr. crossing the plate on a Feduccia sacrifice bunt, and at three nothing, that was all Tampa needed. Caminero was the catalyst, picking up the big two-out hit that cracked this game open. Díaz went two for four with the run scored, Aranda added a hit and came around to score as well. For Cleveland, Trevor Bazzana was the lone bright spot at the plate, going two for four, but the Guardians stranded opportunities all night and never found an answer on the mound. Tampa's pitching staff held them scoreless through nine, and this game never had a second act for Cleveland. The Rays came in with a plan and executed it cleanly, one station-to-station inning at a time. That's your post-game report. Sports Desk, signing off.

AI-generated post-game report composed from the official play-by-play and box score.

Who Scored — Scoring Timeline

Caminero doubled to right, Díaz scored, Aranda to third. P5 · 0–1
Mullins hit sacrifice fly to left, Aranda scored. P5 · 0–2
Feduccia hit sacrifice bunt to first, Mesa Jr. scored, Palacios to second. P6 · 0–3

Complete Play-by-Play

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Top of the 1st inning P1

Nick Martinez pitches to Steven Kwan P1

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P1

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P1

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Looking P1

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P1

Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P1

Kwan singled to right. P1

Nick Martinez pitches to Jose Ramirez P1

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P1

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P1

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P1

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P1

Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P1

Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P1

Ramírez popped out to second. P1

Nick Martinez pitches to Travis Bazzana P1

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P1

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P1

Bazzana grounded into double play, first to shortstop to first, Kwan out at second. P1

Middle of the 1st inning P1

Bottom of the 1st inning P1

Tanner Bibee pitches to Yandy Diaz P1

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P1

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P1

Pitch 3 : Ball 3 P1

Pitch 4 : Strike 1 Looking P1

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Swinging P1

Pitch 6 : Strike 2 Foul P1

Pitch 7 : Ball In Play P1

Díaz singled to right. P1

Tanner Bibee pitches to Jonathan Aranda P1

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P1

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P1

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P1

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P1

Aranda struck out swinging. P1

Tanner Bibee pitches to Junior Caminero P1

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P1

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P1

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P1

Caminero flied out to left. P1

Tanner Bibee pitches to Cedric Mullins P1

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Bunted Foul P1

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P1

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P1

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Looking P1

Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P1

Mullins lined out to center. P1

End of the 1st inning P1

Top of the 2nd inning P2

Nick Martinez pitches to Brayan Rocchio P2

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P2

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P2

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P2

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P2

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P2

Pitch 6 : Strike 3 Swinging P2

Rocchio struck out swinging. P2

Nick Martinez pitches to Angel Martinez P2

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P2

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P2

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P2

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Looking P2

Martínez struck out looking. P2

Nick Martinez pitches to Kyle Manzardo P2

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P2

Manzardo popped out to second. P2

Middle of the 2nd inning P2

Bottom of the 2nd inning P2

Tanner Bibee pitches to Chandler Simpson P2

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P2

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P2

Simpson singled to center. P2

Tanner Bibee pitches to Victor Mesa Jr. P2

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P2

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P2

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P2

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P2

Mesa Jr. struck out swinging. P2

Tanner Bibee pitches to Richie Palacios P2

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P2

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P2

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P2

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P2

Palacios popped into double play, second to first, Simpson doubled off first. P2

End of the 2nd inning P2

Top of the 3rd inning P3

Nick Martinez pitches to Gabriel Arias P3

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P3

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P3

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P3

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P3

Pitch 5 : Ball 1 P3

Pitch 6 : Ball 2 P3

Pitch 7 : Ball In Play P3

Arias singled to right. P3

Nick Martinez pitches to Patrick Bailey P3

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P3

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P3

Bailey fouled out to shortstop. P3

Nick Martinez pitches to Petey Halpin P3

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P3

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P3

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P3

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P3

Halpin flied out to left. P3

Nick Martinez pitches to Steven Kwan P3

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P3

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P3

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P3

Kwan flied out to right. P3

Middle of the 3rd inning P3

Bottom of the 3rd inning P3

Tanner Bibee pitches to Ben Williamson P3

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P3

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P3

Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Looking P3

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Looking P3

Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P3

Williamson popped out to shortstop. P3

Tanner Bibee pitches to Hunter Feduccia P3

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P3

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P3

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P3

Feduccia singled to right. P3

Tanner Bibee pitches to Yandy Diaz P3

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P3

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P3

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Looking P3

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Looking P3

Díaz struck out looking. P3

Tanner Bibee pitches to Jonathan Aranda P3

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P3

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P3

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P3

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P3

Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Looking P3

Aranda struck out looking. P3

End of the 3rd inning P3

Top of the 4th inning P4

Nick Martinez pitches to Jose Ramirez P4

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P4

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P4

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P4

Ramírez popped out to first. P4

Nick Martinez pitches to Travis Bazzana P4

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P4

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P4

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P4

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Looking P4

Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P4

Bazzana singled to center. P4

Nick Martinez pitches to Brayan Rocchio P4

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P4

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P4

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P4

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P4

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P4

Pitch 6 : Strike 2 Foul P4

Pitch 7 : Strike 2 Foul P4

Pitch 8 : Ball In Play P4

Rocchio popped out to shortstop. P4

Nick Martinez pitches to Angel Martinez P4

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P4

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P4

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P4

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P4

Martínez flied out to right. P4

Middle of the 4th inning P4

Bottom of the 4th inning P4

Tanner Bibee pitches to Junior Caminero P4

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P4

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P4

Caminero grounded out to shortstop. P4

Tanner Bibee pitches to Cedric Mullins P4

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P4

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P4

Mullins flied out to left. P4

Tanner Bibee pitches to Chandler Simpson P4

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P4

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P4

Simpson singled to right. P4

Tanner Bibee pitches to Victor Mesa Jr. P4

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P4

Mesa Jr. reached on bunt single to pitcher, Simpson to second. P4

Tanner Bibee pitches to Richie Palacios P4

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P4

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P4

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P4

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P4

Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P4

Pitch 6 : Ball 4 P4

Palacios walked, Mesa Jr. to second, Simpson to third. P4

Tanner Bibee pitches to Ben Williamson P4

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P4

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P4

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P4

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P4

Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P4

Williamson grounded out to shortstop. P4

End of the 4th inning P4

Top of the 5th inning P5

Nick Martinez pitches to Kyle Manzardo P5

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P5

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P5

Manzardo flied out to center. P5

Nick Martinez pitches to Gabriel Arias P5

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P5

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P5

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P5

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P5

Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P5

Arias struck out swinging. P5

Nick Martinez pitches to Patrick Bailey P5

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P5

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P5

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Looking P5

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P5

Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P5

Bailey struck out swinging. P5

Middle of the 5th inning P5

Bottom of the 5th inning P5

Tanner Bibee pitches to Hunter Feduccia P5

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P5

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P5

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P5

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P5

Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P5

Pitch 6 : Strike 2 Foul P5

Pitch 7 : Ball In Play P5

Feduccia grounded out to second. P5

Tanner Bibee pitches to Yandy Diaz P5

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P5

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P5

Díaz doubled to center. P5

Tanner Bibee pitches to Jonathan Aranda P5

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P5

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P5

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P5

Aranda singled to left, Díaz to third. P5

Tanner Bibee pitches to Junior Caminero P5

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P5

Caminero doubled to right, Díaz scored, Aranda to third. P5

Tanner Bibee pitches to Cedric Mullins P5

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Bunted Foul P5

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P5

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P5

Mullins hit sacrifice fly to left, Aranda scored. P5

Tanner Bibee pitches to Chandler Simpson P5

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P5

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P5

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P5

Pitch 4 : Ball 1 P5

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P5

Pitch 6 : Strike 2 Foul P5

Pitch 7 : Strike 2 Foul P5

Pitch 8 : Ball In Play P5

Simpson lined out to right. P5

End of the 5th inning P5

Top of the 6th inning P6

Nick Martinez pitches to Petey Halpin P6

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P6

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P6

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P6

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P6

Halpin grounded out to second. P6

Nick Martinez pitches to Steven Kwan P6

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P6

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P6

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P6

Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P6

Kwan struck out swinging. P6

Nick Martinez pitches to Jose Ramirez P6

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P6

Ramírez reached on infield single to pitcher. P6

Nick Martinez pitches to Travis Bazzana P6

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P6

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P6

Bazzana flied out to left. P6

Middle of the 6th inning P6

Bottom of the 6th inning P6

Tanner Bibee pitches to Victor Mesa Jr. P6

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P6

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P6

Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Looking P6

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Swinging P6

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 6 : Ball 3 P6

Pitch 7 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 8 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 9 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 10 : Ball 4 P6

Mesa Jr. walked. P6

Tanner Bibee pitches to Richie Palacios P6

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P6

Palacios singled to center, Mesa Jr. to third. P6

Tanner Bibee pitches to Ben Williamson P6

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P6

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P6

Williamson fouled out to first. P6

Tanner Bibee pitches to Hunter Feduccia P6

Feduccia hit sacrifice bunt to first, Mesa Jr. scored, Palacios to second. P6

Tanner Bibee pitches to Yandy Diaz P6

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P6

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P6

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P6

Díaz struck out swinging. P6

End of the 6th inning P6

Top of the 7th inning P7

Sulser relieved Martinez P7

Cole Sulser pitches to Brayan Rocchio P7

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P7

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P7

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P7

Rocchio grounded out to third. P7

Cole Sulser pitches to Angel Martinez P7

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P7

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Swinging P7

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P7

Martínez grounded out to pitcher. P7

Cole Sulser pitches to Kyle Manzardo P7

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P7

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P7

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P7

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P7

Manzardo struck out swinging. P7

Middle of the 7th inning P7

Bottom of the 7th inning P7

Dion relieved Bibee P7

Will Dion pitches to Jonathan Aranda P7

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P7

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P7

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P7

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P7

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P7

Pitch 6 : Ball 2 P7

Pitch 7 : Strike 2 Foul P7

Pitch 8 : Ball In Play P7

Aranda flied out to center. P7

Will Dion pitches to Junior Caminero P7

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P7

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P7

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P7

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P7

Caminero struck out swinging. P7

Will Dion pitches to Cedric Mullins P7

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P7

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Swinging P7

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P7

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P7

Mullins struck out swinging. P7

End of the 7th inning P7

Top of the 8th inning P8

Cleavinger relieved Sulser P8

Garrett Cleavinger pitches to Gabriel Arias P8

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Swinging P8

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Looking P8

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P8

Arias struck out swinging. P8

Hedges hit for Bailey P8

Garrett Cleavinger pitches to Austin Hedges P8

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P8

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P8

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P8

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P8

Pitch 6 : Strike 3 Swinging P8

Hedges struck out swinging. P8

Fry hit for Halpin P8

Garrett Cleavinger pitches to David Fry P8

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P8

Pitch 3 : Ball 3 P8

Pitch 4 : Strike 1 Looking P8

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P8

Pitch 6 : Ball 4 P8

Fry walked. P8

Garrett Cleavinger pitches to Steven Kwan P8

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P8

Kwan lined out to center. P8

Middle of the 8th inning P8

Bottom of the 8th inning P8

Kwan in center field. P8

Hedges catching. P8

Fry in left field. P8

Will Dion pitches to Chandler Simpson P8

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P8

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P8

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P8

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P8

Pitch 6 : Strike 3 Swinging P8

Simpson struck out swinging. P8

Will Dion pitches to Victor Mesa Jr. P8

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P8

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P8

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P8

Mesa Jr. struck out swinging. P8

Will Dion pitches to Richie Palacios P8

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P8

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P8

Palacios grounded out to second. P8

End of the 8th inning P8

Top of the 9th inning P9

Walls at shortstop. P9

Williamson at second base. P9

Baker relieved Cleavinger P9

Bryan Baker pitches to Jose Ramirez P9

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P9

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P9

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P9

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P9

Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P9

Ramírez flied out to right. P9

Bryan Baker pitches to Travis Bazzana P9

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P9

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P9

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P9

Bazzana singled to left. P9

Bryan Baker pitches to Brayan Rocchio P9

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P9

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P9

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P9

Rocchio flied out to right. P9

Bryan Baker pitches to Angel Martinez P9

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P9

Bazzana to second on fielder's indifference. P9

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P9

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P9

Martínez flied out to right. P9