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Rays are now quite encouraged about Shane McClanahan’s progress

2 days ago | tampabay.com | Marc Topkin

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Shane McClanahan has overcome the physical and mental hurdles that previously slowed his return from a spring triceps nerve issue and is tracking toward a return to the Rays rotation, potentially by early August. “He looks great,” pitching coach Kyle Snyder said. “He looks exactly like he did throwing on the side between outings in spring training. I know it’s been a really frustrating few months, but I definitely feel like he’s really turned the corner.
Are these really Kevin Cash’s Rays bunting their way to a victory?

2 days ago | tampabay.com | Marc Topkin

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Rays have talked a lot during their now nearly two-month run with the majors’ best record about the versatility, creativity and productivity of their offense. But now this is getting crazy. Wednesday, in improving to a season-best 10 games over .500 and staying within a game of the American League East-leading Yankees, the Rays (45-35) scored all of their runs in a 3-0 win over the Royals during a second-inning rally in which only two balls were hit out of the infield. How?
Drew Rasmussen, small-ball offense lead Rays past Royals again

2 days ago | tampabay.com | Marc Topkin

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Drew Rasmussen continued an impressive run that could lead him to the All-Star Game, and the Rays used a small ball offense that included two squeeze bunts to score a 3-0 win over the Royals on Wednesday night. Rasmussen allowed just two hits and two walks over five scoreless innings, improving his record to 7-5 and lowering his ERA to 2.45, eighth-best in the majors. Over his last eight starts, Rasmussen is 6-1 with a 1.62 ERA.
From Tampa to majors in a rush, Royals’ Jac Caglianone is ‘in a good spot’

2 days ago | tampabay.com | Marc Topkin

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Underneath that Royals blue, Jac Caglianone is about as Tampa as they come. Born there, schooled there, lives there. Grew up watching the Rays, wearing No. 14 in part for David Price. Played baseball for Dennis Braun at Plant High, works out with some of the legacy stars such as Pete Alonso and Kyle Tucker, draws on some of the others for advice, such as Jake Woodford and Mychal Givens.
There was a lot that went into turnaround of Rays’ Taj Bradley

3 days ago | tampabay.com | Marc Topkin

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — After three rough starts, Taj Bradley knew he had to throw more strikes. And after starting Tuesday’s game by throwing two straight balls, he showed he understood the assignment. Bradley got ahead of hitters and got out of innings quickly, retiring the first 16 Royals and allowing only two hits and a walk over six-plus innings in a dazzling outing as the Rays won 5-1.
Chandler Simpson excited to rejoin Rays, show what he can do better

3 days ago | tampabay.com | Marc Topkin

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Chandler Simpson was thrilled to rejoin the Rays on Tuesday. “Yeah, a lot of excitement,” the outfielder said. “I saw that the team was doing really well, so I knew that it was my job to come and contribute to all that winning.”And they were happy to have him back, starting him in centerfield against the Royals. Simpson, considered by many the fastest player in the game, had a significant impact when first called up in mid-April.
A look at what’s behind Rays starters changing their pitch repertoires

3 days ago | tampabay.com | Marc Topkin

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Typically, the offseason and spring training would seem the time for experimentation. Especially for starting pitchers, who are creatures of habit and wedded to routines by nature. And who spend considerable time perfecting their repertoires. But the reach of technology’s impact on the game in recent years has created an immense flow of nearly immediate data.
Florida set to execute man convicted of raping, killing woman outside bar

3 days ago | tampabay.com | David Fischer |Freida Frisaro

STARKE — A man convicted of raping and killing a woman near a bar in Central Florida was scheduled to be executed Tuesday evening. Thomas Lee Gudinas, 51, was set to receive a lethal injection at Florida State Prison near Starke for the May 1994 killing of Michelle McGrath. Gudinas would be the seventh person put to death in Florida this year, with an eighth scheduled for next month. The state executed six people in 2023, but only carried out one execution last year.
‘Alligator Alcatraz’ immigrant detention center in Florida gets the OK

4 days ago | tampabay.com | Ana Ceballos |Syra Ortiz Blanes |Doug Hanks |Alex Harris

TALLAHASSEE — With the blessing of the federal government, the DeSantis administration on Monday began building an immigration detention center on an air strip deep in the Everglades where people ensnared in President Donald Trump’s deportation sweeps will be housed in trailers and “heavy duty” tents during the dog days of summer.
She was arrested on a DUI manslaughter charge. Now she’s suing Clearwater.

4 days ago | tampabay.com | Alexa Coultoff

Hannah Ray moved to Clearwater three years ago to begin a career as a trauma therapist. A month later, she was arrested on a DUI manslaughter charge after a crash that killed a motorcyclist. When her blood test came back a few weeks later, there was no trace of alcohol or drugs in her system, and the Pinellas-Pasco State Attorney’s Office dismissed the case. Ray, then 28, had difficulty adjusting after her mug shot was plastered all over the internet.