Night Yandy." For the second consecutive game, Yandy Díaz delivered a clutch hit late in the game to help rally the Rays to a win, this time 2-1 over the Giants at Oracle Park on Saturday.

Having gone 6-6 on their four-city, 12-game, 14-day road trip, the Rays returned home on a long and unhappy flight 61-64 and 6 ½ games back — 1 ½ more than when they started the journey — of the third American League wild-card spot.

The Rays win a few games and maybe you start to feel better about this team. If you squint you can see a road to the postseason. Maybe even a team that could get lucky in a 3 game Wild Card series. And then you get a game like this.

No, the Rays players did not need to pack a Costco-sized cache of unmentionables for their two-week journey on the West Coast. Management showed the traveling party some mercy halfway through the rare 12-game trip by footing the hotel-laundry bill for everyone’s personal clothing.

Giants manager Bob Melvin speaks to reporters before San Francisco’s matchup against the Tampa Bay Rays on Sunday at Oracle Park.Bob Melvin provides key injury updates before Giants vs. Rays originall

Dominic Smith bateó un sencillo de tres carreras y Drew Gilbert y Tyler Fitzgerald añadieron jonrones solitarios en la victoria de los Gigantes de San

Yandy Diaz had an RBI single in the ninth inning and the Tampa Bay Rays rallied to beat the San Francisco Giants 7-6 on Friday night. Junior Caminero hit his 35th home run and Chandler Simpson had four hits to help Tampa Bay win for the third time in four games.

With Patrick Zalupski in charge, Matt Silverman may stick around, the baseball operations staff will remain intact and stadium talk will heat up soon.