McClanahan gets – Tampa Bay erupted for six early runs and piled up a 16-6 win over Baltimore at Tropicana Field, with Yandy Díaz driving in four and Shane McClanahan recording his 500th major league strikeout.
A thunderstorm hammered Tropicana Field as the Tampa Bay Rays opened with a jolt—then kept pressing until Baltimore’s night simply unraveled. Monday night ended with a 16-6 rout of the Orioles, Tampa Bay’s most runs since May 31 last year in a 16-3 win at Houston.
Yandy Díaz paced the damage with four hits and four RBIs. while Junior Caminero went deep and drove in four.. Ryan Vilade and Jonny DeLuca each added three RBIs as the Rays racked up 18 hits in total and sent the crowd home watching everything go right for a lineup that combined to go 13-for-24 among the first five hitters. collecting 15 RBIs in the process.
The scoring started immediately.. Díaz led off with a double, then followed with a two-out, two-run single in the second inning.. The early surge was brutal for Baltimore starter Trevor Rogers (2-5): Tampa Bay scored six runs in the first five innings of that at-bat sequence. batting through the order—sending 10 batters to the plate during a five-run second.. It got worse in the sixth. when the Rays batted around again for four more runs. including Caminero’s three-run homer.
On the mound, Shane McClanahan turned the game into a personal milestone.. The Baltimore native stretched his scoreless streak to 23 2/3 innings before Adley Rutschman’s two-out RBI single in the third.. McClanahan improved to 5-2. then made it a headline moment in the same stretch—fanning Pete Alonso for the left-hander’s 500th major league strikeout.
It landed with extra weight because McClanahan didn’t pitch in 2024 or 2025 after Tommy John surgery. and he hadn’t allowed a run since April 19 at Pittsburgh.. For the Rays. the rest of the production continued to roll: Taylor Walls extended his hitting streak to a career-best seven games and scored three runs.
For Baltimore, Alonso finished with three hits and drove in two runs with a fifth-inning double off the centre-field wall. Weston Wilson homered in the fifth and made his third appearance as a reliever this season, pitching a scoreless eighth. Rutschman also homered for the Orioles.
As Tampa Bay kept stacking results—13-3 this month and the best record in the majors at 31-15—Baltimore heads into Tuesday’s second game with Kyle Bradish (2-5, 4.21 ERA) scheduled to start against Griffin Jax (1-2, 3.91).
Tampa Bay Rays Baltimore Orioles Shane McClanahan 500th strikeout Yandy Díaz Junior Caminero Adley Rutschman Trevor Rogers Pete Alonso Griffin Jax Kyle Bradish Tropicana Field
16-6 is wild lol. Did the Orioles even show up or what?
Stormy game but they just kept piling on runs. I saw something about 500th strikeout… isn’t that like a team stat though? Either way, Rays look locked in.
McClanahan got the 500th strikeout and all I can think about is Tommy John like every pitcher these days. If he didn’t pitch 2024/2025 then how did he already have 500? Doesn’t make sense to me.
Rutschman homered and still got destroyed, that’s gotta hurt. Also they said Yandy Díaz drove in four like he was doing everything, but then Alonso had 3 hits?? Feels like they left out half the story, because 16-6 sounds like more than just a couple guys. Thunderstorm or not, Baltimore pitching got cooked.