{"id":432828,"date":"2023-04-08T00:53:39","date_gmt":"2023-04-08T04:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=432828"},"modified":"2023-04-08T04:24:34","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T08:24:34","slug":"rays-beat-as-for-7th-straight-win-breaks-almost-140-year-old-record","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/rays-beat-as-for-7th-straight-win-breaks-almost-140-year-old-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays beat A\u2019s for 7th straight win, break almost 140 year-old record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rays beat the Oakland Athletics 9-5 on Friday night to extend their season-opening win streak to seven games. Isaac Paredes hit a grand slam during Tampa Bay\u2019s six-run second inning.<\/p>\n<p>The Rays are the first major league team to win each of their first seven games by four or more runs since the 1884 St. Louis Maroons. Back then the Maroons\u2019 season-opening winning stretch went 13 games.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Rays remain undefeated with a 9-5 win over Oakland! \ud83d\udd25<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay (+500) is the third choice to win the American League at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FanDuelCanada?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@FanDuelCanada<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/r98xGlIfrJ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/r98xGlIfrJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TSN EDGE (@TSN_Edge) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TSN_Edge\/status\/1644509822685937665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Harold Ram\u00edrez, Manuel Margot, Christian Bethancourt and Wander Franco also homered for Tampa Bay. The Rays\u2019 18 homers are the most through seven games in team history.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W0vnEC4v954\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rays beat the Oakland Athletics 9-5 on Friday night to extend their season-opening win streak to seven games. Isaac Paredes hit a grand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":432829,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18592,18016],"news_category":[16708,14084],"gn_keywords":[18666,18665],"acf":{"announce":"Tampa Bay is looking at St. Louis Maroons' achievement from 1884 with 13 straight wins ","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/432828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/432828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432828"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=432828"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=432828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}