The Latest Breaking News from Harold Ramirez

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Rays and Blue Jays engaged in another tense battle Saturday, this time swapping zeroes into the seventh inning.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Friday’s win was impressive enough, as the Rays battled back after letting two leads get away to beat the Blue Jays, 10-6.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Rays began the season’s final homestand on a sour note Friday night with a tension-filled 4-3 defeat against the Texas Rangers before an announced crowd of 14,127 at Tropicana Field.

TORONTO — The Rays celebrated Roberto Clemente Day in a remarkable way Thursday — with the first batting order in major league history with all nine players from Latin American countries.

Toronto (Canada) (AFP) - The Tampa Bay Rays became the first team in Major League Baseball history to start nine Latin American hitters in their batting lineup on Thursday, in a game at Toronto.

TORONTO — The Rays are going so bad now that not even Drew Rasmussen’s months-long hot streak, nor his new dad strength, could help them.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Rays were expecting that Drew Rasmussen, the reigning American League pitcher of the month, was due to deliver another strong start Tuesday against the Red Sox.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Rays did what they could Friday afternoon to tamp down expectations and defuse the hype over the weekend series with the struggling Yankees. Almost to a man, they insisted they were focused only on winning Friday’s game and not the rapidly shrinking margin between them…

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Manager Kevin Cash was talking before Thursday’s matinee game about how much better the Rays lineup has been with the addition of David Peralta and the return of injured Manuel Margot and Harold Ramirez.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Rays made some mistakes that extended Wednesday’s game against the Angels into the 11th inning.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Before joining the injured list with a broken right thumb, Harold Ramirez had recorded hits in nine of 11 games. That propelled his batting average to .329, and it made his earlier-than-expected return to the lineup a welcomed addition for the Rays.