Tampa Bay Rays at Houston Astros

· Major League Baseball

Tampa Bay Rays

52-33, 21-21 Away

Final
3 - 1

Houston Astros

43-47, 21-24 Home

Fortes, Caminero hit HRs, Rays beat Astros 3-1 for 9th straight win

Junior Caminero slams his 10th homer over 10 games

The Rays have homered in a season-high eight consecutive games. Tampa Bay had its streak of nine straight games scoring at least four runs snapped.

Steven Okert (1-1) replaced starter Spencer Arrighetti to begin the seventh and struck out Jonathan Aranda swinging before Caminero hit a 1-1 slider over the wall in left field to give the Rays a 2-1 lead.

Kevin Kelly (5-3) pitched 1 2/3 innings of no-hit relief for the win.

Bryan Baker pitched a 1-2-3 ninth for 23rd save this season.

Yordan Alvarez hit his American League-leading 27th home run this season, a 427-foot shot off Rays starter Nick Martinez in the sixth that made it 1-1. Philadelphia's Kyle Schwarber leads MLB with 30 homers.

Caminero has 25 homer runs, tied with Minnesota's Byron Buxton for second in the AL. The 22-year-old Caminero had a string of six consecutive games with a homer snapped Thursday in a 5-2 win at Kansas City

Fortes hit a two-out solo shot, his second this season, in the sixth inning that opened the scoring.

Tampa Bay's Cedric Mullins went 0 for 4 and snapped his career-long streak of reaching base in 25 straight starts.

Arrighetti gave up a run and two hits.

Up next Rays RHP Drew Rasmussen (7-4, 2.45 ERA) starts Saturday against RHP Hunter Brown (1-0, 1.78) in the second of a three-game series.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Smith lined out to shortstop.
	9th Inning	Walker struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Paredes lined out to second.
	9th Inning	Baker relieved Legumina
	9th Inning	Mullins grounded out to first.
	9th Inning	Caminero struck out swinging.

Statistics

TB		HOU
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	1
9	Ground Balls	14
8	Strikeouts	4
3	Runs Batted In	1
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
5	Hits	3
1	Stolen Bases	0
1	Walks	1
0	Catcher Interference	0
3	Runs	1
1	Ground Into Double Play	0
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
30	At Bats	30
2	Home Runs	1
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
3	Runners Left On Base	8
0	Triples	0
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
1	Doubles	0
13	Fly Balls	12
1	Caught Stealing	0
119	Pitches	113
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	1
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	0
12	Total Bases	6
31	Plate Appearances	32
324.0	Projected Home Runs	162.0
3	Extra Base Hits	1
1.8	Runs Created	0.3
.167	Batting Average	.100
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.400	Slugging Percentage	.200
.267	Secondary Average	.133
.194	On Base Percentage	.156
.594	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.356
0.7	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	1.2
1.8	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	0.3
26.0	Batter Rating	10.0
15.0	At Bats Per Home Run	30.0
0.50	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
3.84	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.53
.233	Isolated Power	.100
0.13	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.25
.032	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.031
.100	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.033
6.0	Runs Produced	2.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.4	Patience Ratio	0.3
0.2	Balls In Play Average	0.1
74.0	MLB Rating	62.8
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0