{"id":45439,"date":"2022-08-14T21:58:38","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T21:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/drew-rasmussen-loses-perfect-game-in-9th-as-rays-beat-orioles\/"},"modified":"2022-08-14T21:58:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T21:58:38","slug":"drew-rasmussen-loses-perfect-game-in-9th-as-rays-beat-orioles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/drew-rasmussen-loses-perfect-game-in-9th-as-rays-beat-orioles\/","title":{"rendered":"Drew Rasmussen loses perfect game in 9th as Rays beat Orioles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>We&#8217;ll have to wait at least a little longer to see another perfect game at the big-league level.<\/p>\n<p>Rays pitcher Drew Rasmussen didn&#8217;t allow a baserunner through eight innings before giving up a lead-off double in the ninth inning to the Orioles&#8217; Jorge Mateo on Sunday at Tropicana Field.<\/p>\n<p>Mateo moved to third on a Terrin Vavra groundout to second and came around to score on a wild pitch that would&#8217;ve punched out Brett Phillips, but he advanced to first on the dropped third strike.<\/p>\n<p>That was Rasmussen&#8217;s last batter, but he got a standing ovation as he was pulled from the game.  He allowed one hit and one earned run while striking out seven in 8 1\/3 innings.  The 27-year-old right-hander was notably efficient, throwing just 87 pitches, 62 of which were strikes. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption>Drew Rasmussen of the Rays pitching on Sunday against the Orioles.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">USA TODAY Sports<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Rays held on to beat the Orioles, 4-1, as Rasmussen improved to 7-4 on the season and lowered his ERA to 2.80.<\/p>\n<p>The Rays&#8217; win in the rubber match against the Orioles comes a day after the benches cleared in another Tampa win over Baltimore as the AL East foes fight for a wild-card spot.<\/p>\n<p>The last perfect game in MLB came on Aug.  15, 2012, when Mariners pitcher Felix Hernandez was perfect against the Rays in Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Garza remains the only Rays pitcher ever to throw a no-hitter.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ll have to wait at least a little longer to see another perfect game at the big-league level. Rays pitcher Drew Rasmussen didn&#8217;t allow a baserunner through eight innings before giving up a lead-off double in the ninth inning to the Orioles&#8217; Jorge Mateo on Sunday at Tropicana Field. Mateo moved to third on a &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/drew-rasmussen-loses-perfect-game-in-9th-as-rays-beat-orioles\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Drew Rasmussen loses perfect game in 9th as Rays beat Orioles<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[3309,661,307,3444],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":46034,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/tampa-bay-pitcher-loses-perfect-game-in-agonizing-fashion\/","url_meta":{"origin":45439,"position":0},"title":"Tampa Bay pitcher loses perfect game in agonizing fashion","date":"August 15, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"On a quiet August Sunday afternoon, in front of a more-than-half-empty stadium, throwing for one unremarkable team against another, Drew Rasmussen nearly achieved history.Unless you're a Tampa Bay Rays fan, or a really devoted Milwaukee Brewers fan, you probably have no idea who Drew Rasmussen is. 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