{"id":2474549,"date":"2026-06-25T02:09:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T02:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2474549"},"modified":"2026-06-25T02:09:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T02:09:55","slug":"jax-shines-as-diaz-ties-tampa-bay-rays-rbis-record-in-5-3-win-over-kansas-city-royals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jax-shines-as-diaz-ties-tampa-bay-rays-rbis-record-in-5-3-win-over-kansas-city-royals\/","title":{"rendered":"Jax shines as D\u00edaz ties Tampa Bay Rays&#8217; RBIs record in 5-3 win over Kansas City Royals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Griffin Jax pitched five strong innings, Yandy D\u00edaz tied Tampa Bay\u2019s franchise record for career RBIs and the Rays defeated the Kansas City Royals 5-3 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Jax (3-5) struck out seven while allowing two unearned runs and five hits. It was his fourth start in a row with at least five innings pitched and less than two earned runs allowed. Bryan Baker gave up a run in the ninth, but closed it out for his 20th save.<\/p>\n<p>D\u00edaz hammered a line drive to left field in the fourth inning to tie B.J. Upton\u2019s franchise mark of 447 RBIs and give Tampa Bay a 4-0 lead. Jonny DeLuca followed with an RBI double.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Fortes and D\u00edaz opened the scoring in the third when they both scored after Royals first baseman Jac Caglianone fielded Ryan Vilade\u2019s grounder and stepped on the bag for the out \u2014 but then his throw home went wide of catcher Salvador Perez. Jonathan Aranda added a one-run single to put the Rays up 3-0.<\/p>\n<p>Noah Cameron (4-5) gave up all five runs on eight hits in five innings for the Royals.<\/p>\n<p>Kansas City scored two runs in the top of the fifth when Carter Jensen and Caglianone scored on consecutive errors by shortstop Taylor Walls and left fielder Chandler Simpson. Josh Rojas added his first homer of the season in the ninth to pull within 5-3.<\/p>\n<p>Jensen extended his hitting streak to 15 games with a single on the first pitch of the game.<\/p>\n<h2>Up next<\/h2>\n<p>Royals RHP <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a target=\"_blank\" class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/royals\/roster\/probable-pitchers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Seth Lugo<\/a><\/span> (3-4, 3.69 ERA) faces Rays LHP Ian Seymour (3-1, 4.98 ERA) in the series finale Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a target=\"_blank\" class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n      FB.init({\n              appId : '870613919693099',\n          xfbml : true,\n          version : 'v2.9'\n      });\n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source apnews.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. 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