{"id":80170,"date":"2026-10-18T20:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T01:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/18\/rays-on-verge-of-world-series-return-after-rasmussen-dazzles-in-win-over-guardians\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T20:55:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T01:55:00","slug":"rays-on-verge-of-world-series-return-after-rasmussen-dazzles-in-win-over-guardians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/18\/rays-on-verge-of-world-series-return-after-rasmussen-dazzles-in-win-over-guardians\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays on verge of World Series return after Rasmussen dazzles in win over Guardians"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Tampa Bay Rays 3-1 Cleveland Guardians<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Rays lead best of seven series 3-2<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Drew Rasmussen shines over seven innings<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Tampa Bay Rays moved to within one win of a return to the World Series on Sunday after defeating the Cleveland Guardians 3-1 to edge into a 3-2 lead in their MLB playoff series.<\/p>\n<p>A dazzling pitching performance from starter Drew Rasmussen laid the foundation for another deserved victory for the Rays, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/oct\/17\/rays-guardians-alcs-game-four-yandy-diaz-world-series\">who had leveled the best-of-seven American League Championship<\/a> Series on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/oct\/18\/rays-on-verge-of-world-series-return-after-rasmussen-dazzles-in-win-over-guardians\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tampa Bay Rays 3-1 Cleveland Guardians Rays lead best of seven series 3-2 Drew Rasmussen shines over seven innings The Tampa Bay Rays moved to within one win of a return to the World Series on Sunday after defeating the Cleveland Guardians 3-1 to edge into a 3-2 lead in their MLB playoff series. A &#8230; <a title=\"Rays on verge of World Series return after Rasmussen dazzles in win over Guardians\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/18\/rays-on-verge-of-world-series-return-after-rasmussen-dazzles-in-win-over-guardians\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Rays on verge of World Series return after Rasmussen dazzles in win over Guardians\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}