BUTLER BURIES TAMPA: A’s Outlast Rays in Thriller

In one of their most exciting wins of the 2025 season, the A’s walked into Steinbrenner Field and stunned the Rays with a 6–4 victory that had everything: early fireworks, mid-game collapse, and a clutch ninth-inning gut punch. Shea Langeliers got the party started with a three-run bomb in the first, giving the A’s a 3–0 lead before some fans even found their seats. Brent Rooker stayed hot with an RBI single in the third to stretch it to 4–0. But like any game in Tampa, nothing comes easy—especially not in a spring training ballpark doubling as a major league battlefield.

The Rays clawed back in the fourth, scoring four runs off Jacob Lopez to tie it up. Junior Caminero crushed a two-run homer, and Tampa capitalized on chaos with bloops, bunts, and broken bats to even the score at 4–4. From there, both bullpens locked it down. The A’s pen—led by JT Ginn and unbelievable play by Colby Thomas to throw out Brandon Lowe at home in the 8th—and gave the offense a chance to breathe. And that breath came in the form of Lawrence Butler’s thunderous triple in the ninth, plating two and silencing the few thousand on hand in Tampa. The Reaker, Mason Miller came in the the 9th and that was that. BIG WIN FOR THE A’S!

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