Rays hit 3 homers in win over White Sox, improve to AL-best 10-7

Marc Topkin, Tampa Bay Times on Apr 15, 2026

Published in Baseball

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CHICAGO — As the Rays have been bunting freely and running wild in posting the American League’s best record, manager Kevin Cash has reminded that they can, and will, flex their muscles and put on a power show as well.

There was a glimpse of that Wednesday, as they extended their winning streak to five in an 8-3 victory over the White Sox that improved their record to 10-7.

Junior Caminero, Jake Fraley and Jonny DeLuca went deep as the Rays posted their first multi-homer game in more than a week and matched their season high for a game. Jonathan Aranda and Yandy Diaz also knocked in runs.

Four pitchers teamed to keep the Sox down, the first three without allowing a run.

Cole Sulser worked the first two innings as the opener, former White Sox right-hander Jesse Scholtens handled the next five, then Mason Englert the eighth.

Ian Seymour made a bit of a mess in the ninth, allowing the three runs.

The Rays had won their previous three games without any home runs, a streak they had done only six other times in franchise history. And they hit only one in the three games before that.

Going into play Wednesday, their 12 homers were tied for third fewest in the majors.

Caminero, off to a slow start following his 45-homer, 110-RBI breakout performance last year, gave the Rays a 1-0 in the third with his third homer of the season.

More impressive, he hit the ball hard (104.8 mph off the bat) and far (393 feet) with his right hand coming off the bat just after contact with Sean Burke’s 77.6-mph knuckle curve.

The Rays made it 3-0 in the fifth in more of the small-ball way that has been working for them, as the rally started with Hunter Feduccia and Taylor Walls singling and moving up on Chandler Simpson’s bunt. Caminero drove in one run on a groundout and Aranda on a double.

Fraley led off the sixth with his first homer as a Ray.

They broke the game open with a four-run seventh. One-out walks by Caminero and Aranda got them started, Diaz singled in one, and DeLuca delivered a three-run, pinch-hit homer.