Overview

• Tampa Bay beat Cleveland 4-2 at George M. Steinbrenner Field as Ryan Pepiot worked five hitless innings with six strikeouts.
• The victory extended the Rays’ season-best streak to seven and pulled them within two games of Seattle for the final AL wild-card spot.
• A combined no-hit bid ended in the sixth on a José Ramírez single, and Pete Fairbanks yielded back-to-back ninth-inning homers to Ramírez and Kyle Manzardo before closing; Christopher Morel had three hits and Carson Williams drove in two, including on a safety squeeze.
• Pepiot logged his third straight start of at least five innings allowing one hit or fewer, matching Dylan Cease as the only pitchers to achieve that feat.
• The four-game set is at the Yankees’ spring facility after hurricane damage to Tropicana Field, while Cleveland fell to 69-70, is shifting to a six-man rotation, and is using Cade Smith late after Emmanuel Clase was placed on leave during an MLB investigation.