You couldn’t script Friday night’s game against the Orioles any better.
Before the contest, Brandon Lowe was activated from the 10-Day IL and Curtis Mead was optioned to AAA Durham. Lowe went 1-4 with a single.
Tampa Bay jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first. Chandler Simpson extended his franchise-leading rookie hitting streak to 17 with a double in the first inning
On the second pitch that Home Run Derby runner-up Junior Caminero saw, a 115 MPH, 539-foot blast off of the Steinbrenner Field scoreboard,
and his 25th of the season.
The sound of his bat is just different, man
— Jake (@TBRaysCentral) July 19, 2025
pic.twitter.com/MbLRmnlGzc
In the second, Danny Jansen smashed a solo shot of his own to make it 4-0.
In the bottom of the third, Josh Lowe doubled in Yandy Diaz to make it 5-0 for the Flappy Boys.
In the sixth is where the wheels fell off for the Baltimore pitching staff.
Yandy Diaz stroked a patented opposite field shot to right for a grand slam to open the floodgates 10-0.
YANDY GRAND SLAM AND IT’S 10-0 pic.twitter.com/I7lJLYvjRa
— Jake (@TBRaysCentral) July 19, 2025
Caminero must have wanted to follow suit, as he launched his second of the partly cloudy, 91-degree evening to right to make it 11-0.
Taj Bradley was masterful over six frames, striking out six and only allowing three hits.
Taj Bradley deserves some flowers tonight
— Rays The Roof (@RaysTheRoofTB) July 19, 2025
What a start from the #Rays young righty: 6 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 6 K, 87 P
He delivered tonight in a BIG waypic.twitter.com/LcgO4OMMw9
The Orioles plated a run in the ninth to make the final score 11–1.
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