ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Ryan O’Hearn had a pinch-hit RBI single within the ninth inning and the AL East-leading Baltimore Orioles rebounded after blowing a five-run result in beat the Tampa Bay Rays for the second time in three days, 6-5 on Saturday.
The Orioles, who’ve received 11 of 14, took a one-game lead over the second-place Rays. Baltimore began July 6 1/2 video games behind Tampa Bay, which dropped to an AL-worst 4-13 in July.
The four-game sequence concludes Sunday.
Pinch-hitter Adam Frazier had a ninth-inning leadoff single off Pete Fairbanks (0-4), went to second on James McCann’s sacrifice bunt on a hight-and-tight pitch and scored on O’Hearn’s liner to proper.
“Can we talk about McCann’s bunt?” O’Hearn mentioned. “That ought to be circulating on the web as a result of that’s unbelievable that he received that bunt down.
“It says everything about our team. We jumped out early. They crawled back in, and then we find a way to scratch a run there. I think it was a special win.”
Cionel Pérez (3-1) received the ultimate out within the eighth, and Félix Bautista labored an ideal ninth to get his twenty seventh save earlier than a sellout crowd of 25,025 that embody numerous Orioles’ followers.
“There’s definitely some added intensity,” Baltimore supervisor Brandon Hyde mentioned. “The crowd was electric. It’s the loudest I’ve ever seen it here. It’s been a lot of fun.”
Rays All-Star Shane McClanahan was bidding to develop into the majors’ first 12-game winner however lasted simply 4 innings, permitting 5 runs, 5 hits and three walks. The lefty, who threw 86 pitches, was making his second begin after spending 17 days on the injured checklist due to mid-back tightness.
“I’m not going to make any excuses,” McClanahan mentioned. “I’ve got to be better. I’m very frustrated, and this team deserve a better than that performance I just gave them.”
McClanahan, from Baltimore, was 6-0 with a 2.14 ERA in eight earlier begins in opposition to the Orioles.
Baltimore rookie Grayson Rodriguez gave up two runs and three hits over 5 2/3 innings in his second begin after spending two months within the minors.
Tampa Bay accomplished the comeback from a five-run deficit when pinch-hitter Manuel Margot and Yandy Díaz each drew walks from Shintaro Fujinami to start the eighth and moved up a base on a wild pitch. After Wander Franco had an RBI grounder, Randy Arozarena tied it at 5 on a run-scoring single that took a tough bounce previous shortstop Jorge Mateo.
Ryan Mountcastle singled with one out within the fourth off McClanahan for the Orioles’ first hit and aggressively superior to 3rd on Gunnar Henderson’s flare base-hit to left. After Ramón Urías walked to load the bases, McCann and Mateo had consecutive two-out two-run doubles earlier than Austin Hays added an RBI double to make it 5-0.
Rodriguez had allowed simply an infield single to Jose Siri within the third earlier than Siri doubled within the sixth after Josh Lowe opened the inning with a stroll. Franco ended the right-hander’s day and pulled the Rays to 5-2 on a two-run single with two outs.
Yennier Cano entered with two on and one out within the seventh and gave up a run-scoring single to Isaac Paredes that reduce the Rays’ deficit to 5-3.
GLOVE WORK
Henderson made a nifty defensive play at third base within the fifth, diving towards the road to snare Paredes’ liner after which throw to first and double up Brandon Lowe. … Mountcastle saved a run with a diving seize at first base on Josh Lowe’s seventh-inning grounder
TRAINER’S ROOM
Rays: INF Taylor Walls went on the 10-day injured checklist with a left indirect pressure and will miss 4 to 6 weeks. … LHP Josh Fleming (left elbow irritation) labored two good innings in his first recreation with the rookie-level FCL Rays.
UP NEXT
Orioles RHP Tyler Wells (7-5) and Rays RHP Taj Bradley (5-6) are set to begin Sunday.
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