St. Petersburg, FL (Sports Network) – The Tampa Bay Rays placed designated hitter Luke Scott on the 15-day disabled list prior to Saturday’s game against Toronto.<\/p>\n
Scott, who missed the season’s first month due to a strained calf, is suffering from lower back spasms and hasn’t played in the Rays’ last two games. The lefty-swinging veteran is hitting .249 with nine home runs and 39 RBI over 78 games for the year.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay activated reliever Brandon Gomes from the 60-day DL to take the available roster spot. The right-hander hasn’t pitched in the majors since May 7, having missed three-plus months with a strained right lat muscle.<\/p>\n
Prior to the injury, Gomes appeared in 14 games and went 0-1 with a 5.40 earned run average.<\/p>\n
To make room for Gomes on the 40-man roster, relief pitcher Jesse Crain was transferred to the 60-day DL.<\/p>\n
Crain, acquired from the Chicago White Sox just prior to the July 31 non- waiver trade deadline, is currently sidelined with a sprained right shoulder. He is eligible to be reinstated on August 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
St. Petersburg, FL (Sports Network) – The Tampa Bay Rays placed designated hitter Luke Scott on the 15-day disabled list prior to Saturday’s game against Toronto. Scott, who missed the season’s first month due to a strained calf, is suffering from lower back spasms and hasn’t played in the Rays’ last two games. The lefty-swinging […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[191,67,190],"class_list":["post-3685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-rays","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-rays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}