The Latest Breaking News from Randy Arozarena

BALTIMORE — The challenge for the Rays has been to score runs, and that they did Saturday, snapping a 15-inning drought that started Thursday.

NEW YORK — Tuesday night’s Gerrit Cole vs. Corey Kluber matchup may have been the main event a few years ago, but Wednesday night was the marquee pitching matchup everyone in baseball was waiting for. Nestor Cortes and the Yankees bullpen held off the Rays bats to beat their young…

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Randy Arozarena didn’t have to say much for his answer to be clear about how much he is looking forward to facing his former team this week.

ARLINGTON, Texas — It probably would not be wise, especially with the pitchers the White Sox are starting this weekend, to say the Rays have broken out of the extended slump that has ailed their offense.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Rays kept talking about needing something to somehow get some offense going.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Jeffrey Springs has done a lot right since moving into the Tampa Bay rotation on May 9. In making his fourth start Friday, Springs made just a few mistakes, allowing a pair of solo home runs.

BALTIMORE — Randy Arozarena has a thing for the Orioles.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — After calling out the hitters for being in “a team rut” on Monday, Rays manager Kevin Cash said before Tuesday’s game it would take a group effort to break out of it.

Tampa Bay manager Kevin Cash might have been wise to take a page out of Joe Maddon’s playbook and walk Shohei Ohtani intentionally with the bases loaded in the seventh inning Monday night, just like the Angels manager did with Texas Rangers slugger Corey Seager on April 16.