Cleveland Guardians vs Tampa Bay Rays All-Time Record

American League
Cleveland Guardians
Tampa Bay Rays
Guardians lead Rays115to91since 1998

Retrosheet history through 2025, plus 6 final games from the current feed.

2026 season series: Rays lead 5-1

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At a glance

All-time since 1998 · current-feed analysis, 2002 to 2026

Cleveland Guardians vs Tampa Bay Rays insights

Current-feed record
+9wins for Guardians
53% Guardians · 47% Rays

The split has held steady across the schedule change: 12-14 since 2023.

Recent form
9-11last 20
Rays on a 3-game streak

Rays won 1-0 on Jul 26, 2026

Where it matters
3Postseason games

3 postseason games across 2 postseasons since 2002.

Schedule context
  • Guardians built the series lead before the 2023 schedule change, taking 78 of 145 decided meetings (54%).
  • Since the schedule balanced out they are 12-14, or 46% to Guardians.

Guardians vs Rays postseason head-to-head record

Cleveland Guardians and Tampa Bay Rays have met 206 times since 1998, 3 times in the postseason. The playoff games are included in the all-time total, not added on top of it.

Postseason record
Guardians 2-1
3 postseason games since 1998
Playoff share
1.5%
Share of all meetings
Regular season
203
Recorded non-postseason meetings
Win Percentage
90W
81W
CLE
TB
53%47%
Cleveland GuardiansTampa Bay Rays

Recent Games

Last 10 Games
Jul 26
TB 1-0 CLE
TB
Jul 25
TB 3-0 CLE
TB
Jul 24
TB 11-3 CLE
TB
Apr 29
CLE 3-1 TB
CLE
Apr 28
CLE 0-1 TB
TB
Apr 27
CLE 2-3 TB
TB
Sep 7
TB 1-2 CLE
CLE
Sep 6
TB 2-3 CLE
CLE
Sep 5
TB 1-7 CLE
CLE
Sep 4
TB 4-2 CLE
TB
Last Meeting
Jul 26, 2026Final
TB
1
HOME
CLE
0
AWAY
Rayswon by1run
Rays' 3rd straight in this series·Game 171 since 2002
Streaks & Momentum
Current Streak
Tampa Bay Rays: 3 consecutive wins
3
Avg. Margin of Victory
Games decided by 3.2 runs on average
3.2runs
Momentum (Last 10 vs Archive since 2002)
CLE↓Trending Down
Last 1040%
Archive since 200252.6%
TB↑Trending Up
Last 1060%
Archive since 200247.4%
Last 10 Results
CLE / TB

Record since 2002

Season Split & Biggest Wins
Regular season vs Postseason record, plus each team's largest margin of victory
Regular Season168 games
88
80
Postseason3 games
2
1
Cleveland Guardians Biggest Win
13–0+13 runs
Apr 7, 2013
Tampa Bay Rays Biggest Win
13–3+10 runs
Aug 24, 2005
Decade Breakdown
Choose a decade to scope the current-feed page
Season by Season
Season ↓CLE ↕TB ↕Games ↕
2026156
2025527
2024347
2023336
2022628
2021167
2019167
2018246
2017437
2016516
2015527
2014426
2013257
2012448
2011246
2010279
2009538
2008527
20078210
2006617
20054610
2004336
2003527
2002426

All 24 seasons are shown in the table above.

Home / Away Split
50-37CLE HOME44-40TB HOME
AWAY
40-44
CLE
AWAY
37-50
TB
Retrosheet archiveComplete through 2025

Cleveland Guardians vs Tampa Bay Rays all-time record, 1998 to 2025

Explore how this matchup changed by decade, where each lineup produced its runs, and the games that pushed the rivalry record book. This archive is a separate source window from the current-feed sections above, which start in 2002.

Games
200
Peak inning
2
Record game
31 runs
Two source windows. Current-feed sections: 171 games from 2002 to 2026. History Lab: 200 Retrosheet games from 1998 to 2025. The first refreshes with current finals; Retrosheet's published archive currently ends in 2025.

Decade balance

Select an era to inspect pace, scoring and attendance.

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Open source archive

Betting Context

Betting context since 2002

How this pairing has settled: run margins, totals and break-even prices derived from its historical record. These are final-score frequencies, not results against a closing line. We do not hold historical sportsbook prices for these games.

One-run games
29.8%

Share of the 171 decided meetings settled by exactly one run.

Won by 2 or more
70.2%

A 2+ run margin crosses 1.5, but this is not a historical line result. Average gap: 3.2.

Average total
8.2runs

Final-score average without accounting for park, bullpen or weather.

Home side wins
55%

Share of decided meetings won by the listed home team.

Totals ladder

Where the combined score landed against the half-run lines a book normally posts. Half runs cannot push, so every meeting falls on one side.

LineOverUnderOver rate
7.5Closest to even9279
53.8%
8.57992
46.2%
9.560111
35.1%

Fair price from the base rate

The decimal price that corresponds exactly to each club's win share in this archive. It describes the record and does not estimate the next game.

Cleveland Guardians
90 W · 52.6%1.90
Tampa Bay Rays
81 W · 47.4%2.11

A base rate is not a forecast. Starting pitchers, lineups, injuries and venue all matter more to a single game than a multi-season head-to-head record.

Last 20 meetings vs full history

One-run games
30%vs 29.8% full archive
+0.2% in the last 20
Won by 2 or more
70%vs 70.2% full archive
-0.2% in the last 20
Average total
5 runsvs 8.2 runs full archive
-3.2 runs in the last 20

Seasons 2024 to 2026. The comparison shows whether the last 20 final scores differ from the longer archive, without assigning a cause or predicting what comes next.

View the break-even percentages in another odds format with the odds converter, or compare current prices for Guardians and Rays in the oddsmatcher.

Questions about this record: Cleveland Guardians vs Tampa Bay Rays

What is the Cleveland Guardians vs Tampa Bay Rays postseason record?

The postseason subset contains 3 games: Cleveland Guardians have 2 wins and Tampa Bay Rays has 1 win. Those games are already included in the complete series from 1998 through 2026.

How do recent Cleveland Guardians vs Tampa Bay Rays results compare with the complete record?

Tampa Bay Rays have won 6 of the latest 10 decided meetings. Cleveland Guardians lead the decided record 115-91. The recent window is a subset of the complete series from 1998 through 2026, so the page reports the two separately.

When did the Cleveland Guardians and Tampa Bay Rays first play each other?

The Retrosheet archive's first recorded meeting for this pairing is May 1, 1998, when Cleveland Guardians beat Tampa Bay Rays 7-5 at home. The archive covers 200 meetings from 1998 through 2025. The current feed starts in 2002 and is reported separately.

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Methodology & Data Sources

Current MLB game logs come from the balldontlie API and cover the 2002 season onward. Scores and schedule anomalies are checked against the official MLB Stats API. Spring training is excluded, while results from earlier franchise identities are merged into the current club.

The all-time record and the History Lab use Retrosheet game logs through 2025, with inning lines, team totals, attendance, duration and ballpark fields when available. Final games after 2025 come from the current feed, and every section built on that feed alone is labeled as starting in 2002.

The betting context summarizes completed final scores only. It contains no sportsbook closing lines and summarizes only completed games. Report a possible error through our contact page with the matchup and game date.

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Last updated Sources: balldontlie, MLB Stats API, Retrosheet

Cleveland Guardians and Tampa Bay Rays have met 171 times in this archive, which covers the 2002 season onward.