ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Zach Eflin pitched seven sturdy innings to develop into the AL’s third 11-game winner, and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Baltimore Orioles 3-0 on Friday night time in a matchup of the highest groups within the American League.

Baltimore, which gained 4-3 in 10 innings on Thursday night time within the opener of the four-game set, leads the AL East with a .608 successful share in comparison with Tampa Bay’s .604. The Orioles trailed the Rays by 6 1/2 video games at the start of July.

Eflin (11-5) allowed two hits, struck out eight and walked one, enhancing to 10-1 in 11 begins at dwelling. The right-hander joined teammate Shane McClanahan and Texas’ Nathan Eovaldi with 11 victories.

After Colin Poche struck out the aspect within the eighth, Pete Fairbanks completed the two-hitter for his eleventh save in 12 possibilities.

Isaac Paredes and Jose Siri homered for the Rays, who stopped a five-game skid and improved to 4-12 in July.

Paredes made it 2-0 on his solo homer off Kyle Bradish (6-5) within the sixth.

Bradish, coming off consecutive wins by which didn’t enable a run over 13 1/3 innings, gave up two runs and 6 hits in six innings.

Baltimore misplaced for simply the third time in 13 video games, and had a season-high six-game street win streak finish.

Siri linked for his team-leading twentieth homer on the primary pitch from new Baltimore reliever Shintaro Fujinami to start out the seventh.

Fujinami, acquired from Oakland on Wednesday, retired his subsequent three batters in his Orioles debut.

Harold Ramírez put the Rays up 1-0 with a second-inning RBI single.

WELCOME ABOARD

The Rays signed shortstop Brayden Taylor, taken nineteenth general on this 12 months’s draft. He hit .308 with 23 homers and 70 RBIs in 58 video games at Texas Christian University.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Rays: C Francisco Mejía went on the 10-day IL with a sprained left knee. He can be re-evaluated in two weeks.

UP NEXT

McClanahan (11-1) will make his second begin after lacking 2½ weeks with mid-back tightness towards Orioles RHP Grayson Rodriguez (2-2) on Saturday.

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