{"id":432975,"date":"2023-04-10T05:14:52","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T09:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=432975"},"modified":"2023-04-10T05:14:52","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T09:14:52","slug":"rays-demolish-athletics-to-match-best-start-of-mlb-season-in-20-years","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/rays-demolish-athletics-to-match-best-start-of-mlb-season-in-20-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays demolish Athletics to match best start of MLB season in 20 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tampa Bay Rays thrashed the Oakland Athletics 11-0 to equal the best ever start of the MLB season on Sunday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Doing things that haven&#39;t been seen since the 1800s<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tampa Bay Rays (@RaysBaseball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RaysBaseball\/status\/1645158354501660674?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 9, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nDrew Rasmussen combined on a one-hitter, while Brandon Lowe hit a grand slam.<\/p>\n<p>Rasmussen (2-0) allowed his only runner on Ramon Laureano\u2019s two-out double in the second and registered seven innings. James Kaprielian (0-1) allowed seven runs, seven hits and three walks over 4 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<p>With this win the Tampa Bay team has now recorded a ninth consecutive win, in which they have outscored their opponents by 75-18 in total. They have recorded the most runs and have allowed the fewest.<\/p>\n<p>Kansas City Royals are the other team that has achieved 9-0 in the MLB opening back in 2003 and the Rays will be aiming to emulate that in their next outing.<\/p>\n<p>The Athletics, on the other hand, record a 7th defeat out of their 9 games and will be looking to improve on their lacklustre form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tampa Bay Rays thrashed the Oakland Athletics 11-0 to equal the best ever start of the MLB season on Sunday. Doing things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":432976,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18592,18016],"news_category":[16708],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The Tampa Bay team looked like a fine tuned machine","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\/432975"}],"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\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/432975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432975"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=432975"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=432975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}