Junior Caminero, a key to Rays’ future, sparks victory over Red Sox

BOSTON — Saturday’s penultimate game of the Rays’ season started in a way that seemed a fitting tribute to many of the others that came before it. They got their first two hitters on, loaded the bases with one out and got nothing out of it.

But as the crisp afternoon went on, the Rays showed, despite a historically bad performance over six months with runners in scoring position, that they occasionally can deliver big hits in key situations, and beat the Red Sox 7-2.

Amid the disappointment of missing the playoffs for the first since since 2018, there has been ample...