SAN FRANCISCO — The Rays avoided potentially losing Friday’s game when reliever Edwin Uceta escaped a bases-loaded jam with no outs in the eighth inning.

Then they did what they needed to do to win it, scratching out a run in the ninth, with Yandy Diaz delivering the RBI single to beat the Giants 7-6.

Nick Fortes was hit by a pitch to start the rally, and Chandler Simpson singled to put runners on the corners. A hard Brandon Lowe grounder led to Fortes being tagged out, but Diaz stepped up and delivered a single to right that scored Simpson.

The Rays were on the brink of falling behind in the eighth when Uceta quickly loaded the bases, hitting the first batter, allowing a single to the second and hitting the third.

But then, with some help from his friends, he escaped the jam.

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