{"id":2486089,"date":"2026-07-03T05:52:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T05:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2486089"},"modified":"2026-07-03T05:52:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T05:52:49","slug":"i-apologize-cedric-mullins-rays-5-royals-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/i-apologize-cedric-mullins-rays-5-royals-2\/","title":{"rendered":"I apologize, Cedric Mullins: Rays 5, Royals 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you would\u2019ve told me the Rays would convincingly sweep a team on the road two weeks ago after what I saw in person at Dodger Stadium, I\u2019d hedge your bet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Rays, on their first west coast swing of the season, went 1-5 and lost three straight games in one-run fashion. and in the last game of the series in Chavez Ravine in the ninth inning, I watched Cedric Mullins strike out swinging with the bases loaded.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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That was my boiling point with Mullins, as I grew frustrated with his swing results, or lack thereof, because I know what he is capable of.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In the 15 games since, he is slashing .321\/.362\/.547 with four homers, and, boy, did he show up to play tonight.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mullins led the charge tonight, going 2-4 with a home run and a run scored to lead the Rays to their eighth straight win, and take a four game lead in the American League East over the Yankees.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Tonight was also his third straight game with a round tripper.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Ian Seymour had a stellar night as well, going six innings, with the Royals whiffing at 15 swinging strikes and striking out a career-high eight batters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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On a night where Yandy Diaz, Jonathan Aranda, and Junior Caminero, Tampa Bay\u2019s big three, combined to go just 1\/11, Chandler Simpson went 3\/4 with a stolen base and two runs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Taylor Walls, slashing .318\/.423\/.409 over his last seven games, stroked a double, and Hunter Feduccia went 3\/4 with an RBI.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Just as the Rays get ready for the All-Star break, it feels like the local stingrays are in a great mood.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.draysbay.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you would\u2019ve told me the Rays would convincingly sweep a team on the road two weeks ago after what I saw in person at Dodger Stadium, I\u2019d hedge your bet. The Rays, on their first west coast swing of the season, went 1-5 and lost three straight games in one-run fashion. and in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2486090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[486337],"class_list":["post-2486089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-tampa-bay-rays-scores"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/I-apologize-Cedric-Mullins-Rays-5-Royals-2.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2486089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2486091,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486089\/revisions\/2486091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2486090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2486089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2486089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2486089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}