The Tampa Bay Rays will be in Cleveland, OH Thursday evening for their final game of the season against the Tampa Bay Rays. Tampa Bay comes into Thursday 16 games above .500 after winning three of the last five games played including game one of this series. Corey Kluber got the start for Tampa Bay giving up only three runs on eight hits across 4 innings of work leading to a no decision. The Tampa Bay bullpen held true allowing one run on five hits before Javy Guerra came on to allow no runs on no hits across one inning leading to the victory. Check out all of our free MLB picks.
Offensively Tampa Bay did just enough with seven hits in 48 bats but two hits with runners in scoring position lead to six runs. Harold Ramirez led the way for Tampa Bay with two hits in five at bats to drive in three runs, while Jose Siri added a two run home run in the fourth inning as well.
The Cleveland Guardians come into Thursday having already clinched their division despite the loss in game one of this series. Shane Bieber struggled on the mound for Cleveland giving up four runs on six hits across 6 innings of work leading to a no decision. The Cleveland bullpen was dominant allowing no runs on no hits over the next four innings before Trevor Stephan allowed two runs on one hit leading to the boss.