ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Gunnar Henderson and Ryan O’Hearn homered because the AL East-leading Baltimore Orioles beat the Tampa Bay Rays 5-3 on Sunday to take three of 4 in a weekend sequence.

The Orioles, who began July 6 1/2 video games behind Tampa Bay, have a two-game lead over the Rays after profitable for the twelfth time in 15 video games.

Reliever Mike Baumann (7-0) walked two over 2 2/3 hitless innings and Félix Bautista gave up ninth-inning singles to Manuel Margot and Yandy Díaz earlier than attending to his twenty eighth save as 4 Baltimore pitchers mixed on a three-hitter. Baltimore pitchers walked six and hit two batters.

Bautista ended it by hanging out Wander Franco with runners on first and third.

Díaz homered for the Rays, who're an AL-worse 4-14 in July. This the primary time Tampa Bay has misplaced a house sequence to the Orioles since June 2017.

O’Hearn put the Orioles up 4-3 on a 331-foot opposite-field homer down the left-field line off Colin Poche (7-3) within the sixth. He had a tiebreaking pinch-hit ninth-inning RBI single within the Orioles’ 6-5 win on Saturday.

Baltimore took a 5-3 lead on Anthony Santander’s RBI single throughout the seventh.

Díaz tied it at 3 with the Rays’ first hit off a wild Tyler Wells, a two-run homer following a leadoff stroll to Christian Bethancourt within the fifth. Wells was changed by Baumann after retiring the subsequent batter, Franco.

Wells ended up permitting three runs, one hit, 4 walks, hit two batters and struck out 5 in 4 1/3 innings. The right-hander had issued simply 26 walks and hit one batter over 106 2/3 innings getting into the sport.

Adley Rutschman had a first-inning RBI double earlier than Henderson made it 3-0 along with his two-run 446-foot drive within the second.

The Rays obtained inside 3-1 within the fourth on a pair of walks and a run-scoring fielder’s selection grounder by Brandon Lowe.

DICKIE V IN THE HOUSE

College basketball icon and Rays’ fan Dick Vitale was on the recreation, someday earlier than beginning six weeks of radiation therapies for vocal twine most cancers.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Orioles: RHP Austin Voth (proper elbow) allowed one run, on a homer, and two hits over two innings for Double-A Bowie in opposition to Harrisburg.

Rays: 3B Isaac Paredes stayed within the recreation after a 91.5 mph pitch from Wells within the second grazed the highest of his helmet. … LHP Josh Fleming (left elbow) may have his standing evaluated after making begins Thursday and Aug. 1 with Triple-A Durham. … RHP Andrew Kittredge (Tommy John surgical procedure) allowed six runs and 7 hits in one-third of an inning for Triple-A Durham in opposition to Rochester.

UP NEXT

Orioles: RHP Dean Kremer (10-4) appears to be like to develop into the AL’s fourth 11-game winner Monday evening in opposition to Philadelphia LHP Cristopher Sánchez (0-3). Tampa Bay’s Shane McClanahan and Zach Eflin, and Texas’ Nathan Eovaldi prime the league with 11 victories.

Rays: RHP Tyler Glasnow (3-3) will go in opposition to Miami RHP Edward Cabrera (5-5) on Tuesday evening.

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