Shane Baz allowed three hits over a career-best eight innings, Brandon Lowe and Junior Caminero hit back-to-back homers in the sixth, and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Kansas City Royals 4-0 on Thursday for a three-game sweep.

The Tampa Bay Rays have won five straight road games, and they look for consecutive sweeps on Thursday afternoon in Kansas City. Here are the batting orders, a great breakdown of the starting pitchers and newsy daily fantasy nuggets.

Pregame analysis and predictions of the Tampa Bay Rays vs. Kansas City Royals MLB game to be played on June 26, 2025 on ESPN.

Taj Bradley has been brutal in his past three starts, but he turned things around Tuesday, pitching 6 2/3 scoreless innings to lead Tampa Bay to a 5-1 win over Kansas City. The Rays are now just one game out of first place in the American League East.

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It's Thursday, June 26 and the Rays (45-35) are in Kansas City to take on the Royals (38-42). Shane Baz is slated to take the mound for Tampa Bay against Michael Lorenzen for Kansas City. Tampa Bay took game two of the series,