Kameron Misner's 2 home runs back Shane Baz's 6 strong innings as Rays beat Red Sox 16-1

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Rookie Kameron Misner homered twice and drove in three runs, Shane Baz threw six strong innings, and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Boston Red Sox 16-1 on Monday night.

Yandy Diaz and Junior Caminero also homered and each drove in a pair for Tampa Bay. Six Rays registered multiple hits.

Misner finished 3 for 4 with homers off Tanner Houck and Brennan Bernardino, his first home runs since a historic walk-off shot on opening day.

Baz (2-0) allowed two hits, one earned run and no walks with a career-high 11 strikeouts. His only mistake was an 0-1 slider to Kristian Campbell, who homered in the top of the third. After that, Baz retired the next 11 Red Sox in order.

Tampa Bay tagged Houck (0-2) for 10 hits and 12 runs, 11 earned, in 2 1/3 innings.

The Rays allowed only one Boston runner past first base until the ninth inning.

Eight consecutive Rays reached base safely in a nine-run third, when Tampa Bay sent 14 batters to the plate. With the Rays up 14-1 on their division rivals, loudspeakers at Steinbrenner Field played the theme to Monday Night Football.

Baz, who sat out 2023 following Tommy John surgery, has retired 34 of his last 41 batters.

In the second of 14 games between the teams, opening day starter Ryan Pepiot (1-1, 3.38 ERA) takes the mound for the Rays. Two-time All-Star Walker Buehler (1-1, 5.74), who limited Toronto to one run on four hits Friday, goes for Boston.

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Tampa Bay Rays' Brandon Lowe (8) connects for a two-run single off Boston Red Sox pitcher Tanner Houck during the second inning of a baseball game Monday, April 14, 2025, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

Boston Red Sox pitcher Tanner Houck delivers to the Tampa Bay Rays during the first inning of a baseball game Monday, April 14, 2025, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

Boston Red Sox's Tanner Houck pitches to the Tampa Bay Rays during the second inning of a baseball game Monday, April 14, 2025, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

Tampa Bay Rays' Yandy Díaz, left, celebrates with third base coach Brady Williams after Diaz hit a solo home run off Boston Red Sox pitcher Tanner Houck during the first inning of a baseball game Monday, April 14, 2025, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

Tampa Bay Rays' Yandy Díaz (2) celebrates with Christopher Morel and Junior Caminero after hitting a home run off Boston Red Sox pitcher Tanner Houck during the first inning of a baseball game Monday, April 14, 2025, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Shane Baz delivers to the Boston Red Sox during the second inning of a baseball game Monday, April 14, 2025, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

Tampa Bay Rays' Shane Baz pitches to the Boston Red Sox during the second inning of a baseball game Monday, April 14, 2025, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

Tampa Bay Rays' Kameron Misner celebrates his two-run home run off Boston Red Sox pitcher Tanner Houck with Christopher Morel (24) during the second inning of a baseball game Monday, April 14, 2025, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

A Ukrainian drone strike killed one person and wounded three others in the Russian city of Voronezh, local officials said Sunday.

A young woman died overnight in a hospital intensive care unit after debris from a drone fell on a house during the attack on Saturday, regional Gov. Alexander Gusev said on Telegram.

Three other people were wounded and more than 10 apartment buildings, private houses and a high school were damaged, he said, adding that air defenses shot down 17 drones over Voronezh. The city is home to just over 1 million people and lies some 250 kilometers (155 miles) from the Ukrainian border.

The attack came the day after Russia bombarded Ukraine with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles overnight into Friday, killing at least four people in the capital Kyiv, according to Ukrainian officials.

For only the second time in the nearly four-year war, Russia used a powerful new hypersonic missile that struck western Ukraine in a clear warning to Kyiv and NATO.

The intense barrage and the launch of the nuclear-capable Oreshnik missile followed reports of major progress in talks between Ukraine and its allies on how to defend the country from further aggression by Moscow if a U.S.-led peace deal is struck.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday in his nightly address that Ukrainian negotiators “continue to communicate with the American side.”

Chief negotiator Rustem Umerov was in contact with U.S. partners Saturday, he said.

Separately, Ukraine’s General Staff said Russia targeted Ukraine with 154 drones overnight into Sunday and 125 were shot down.

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This photo provided by the Ukrainian Security Service on Friday, Jan. 9, 2026, shows a fragment believed to be a part of a Russian Oreshnik intermediate range hypersonic ballistic missile that hit the Lviv region. (Ukrainian Security Service via AP)

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, second left, listens to British Defense Secretary John Healey during their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Danylo Antoniuk)