


Evan Longoria will sign a one-day contract with Tampa Bay and officially retire as a Ray on June 7 when the 39-year-old former Giant will be honored in a pregame ceremony at Steinbrenner Field in Tampa.
The greatest player in franchise history didn’t play last season after spending the 2023 season in Arizona but never officially retired.
Now he’ll do it with the team where he built his illustrious career.
The third baseman was selected with the third overall pick in the 2006 draft out of Long Beach State and starred for the Rays from 2008-2017. He’s the team’s all-time leader in games played (1,435), home runs (261), RBIs (892), runs (780), extra-base hits (618) and walks (569).
He hit 70 of his 342 career home runs in 477 games over five seasons with the Giants (2018-22), including 20 in 2019.
Longoria was the American League Rookie of the Year in 2008, a three-time All-Star and won Gold Glove Awards in 2009, 2010 and 2017. and a Silver Slugger Award in 2009.
Cardinals 3, Phillies 2: Masyn Winn homered in the seventh inning to help visiting St. Louis edge Philadelphia on Monday night for its ninth consecutive win.
Ivan Herrera also went deep for St. Louis, and Lars Nootbaar had two of the Cardinals’ five hits.
The game was tied at 2 when Winn hit a two-out drive to left-center off Matt Strahm (1-2).
Cristopher Sánchez struck out eight in six innings for Philadelphia. He allowed two runs and four hits.
Tigers 14, Red Sox 2: Gleyber Torres homered, singled twice and drove in three runs, and Detroit cruised to a home victory over Boston.
Trey Sweeney also had three hits, including a three-run homer in a nine-run third inning for the Tigers, who improved to an AL-best 27-15.
Jackson Jobe (3-0) gave up one run in 5 2/3 innings. He allowed three hits, struck out seven and walked five.
Tanner Houck (0-3) allowed 11 runs in 2 1/3 innings.
Guardians 5, Brewers 0: Gabriel Arias had a three-run double in the fourth inning off Freddy Peralta (4-3), José Ramírez stole three bases and five Cleveland pitchers combined on a shutout in a home win over Milwaukee.
Guardians starter Ben Lively went three innings before leaving after a couple warmup pitches in the fourth due to right forearm inflammation. Jakob Junis, Kolby Allard, Cade Smith and Hunter Gaddis went the rest of the way for the Guardians’ fifth shutout of the season.
Braves 4, Nationals 3: Alex Verdugo’s single off Andrew Chafin drove in Eli White from second base in the bottom of the ninth and Atlanta recovered after blowing a two-run lead to hand Washington its sixth consecutive loss.
Braves starter Grant Holmes allowed one run and four hits, including a fourth-inning homer by James Wood, in 6 1/3 innings.
Marcell Ozuna drove in two runs with two hits, including a 464-foot homer off Jake Irvin in the fifth.
In the ninth. with runners on second and third and two outs, Raisel Iglesias got Dylan Crews to hit a grounder to shortstop Nick Allen, who threw wide of first baseman Matt Olson for an error, allowing two runs to score to tie it.