Luke Raley's go-ahead homer provides Rays win over Orioles
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BALTIMORE -- The Rays know what’s at stake this weekend. After spending practically 4 months atop the American League East, they’ve spent the final eight weeks chasing the Orioles. These 4 days at Camden Yards symbolize Tampa Bay’s finest likelihood to catch them.
The Rays struck the primary blow Thursday night time, as Luke Raley’s tiebreaking solo shot off Kyle Bradish with two outs within the seventh inning despatched them to a 4-3 win over the Orioles. The victory pulled Tampa Bay inside only one sport of Baltimore within the AL East standings. It’s the closest the membership has been to the division lead because the finish of play on July 22, the day the Orioles broke a tie atop the AL East by beating the Rays at Tropicana Field.
“I mean, we know what's on the table. We know how important this four-game series is,” stated Raley, who picked a really perfect time for his first homer since Aug. 24. “We're going to do everything we can to win all four. That's all that we can do.”
The Rays are all however formally assured a spot within the postseason at this level, however they aren’t glad with merely getting in for the fifth straight yr. They perceive the advantages of profitable the AL East, attending to bypass the Wild Card spherical and securing home-field benefit till the World Series because the league’s high seed.
To obtain that purpose, the Rays should take the division again from the Orioles. Perhaps unsurprisingly, given their current postseason expertise, they don’t appear to be intimidated by the second.
“It's fun every time we get to go out there and play,” stated reliever Pete Fairbanks, who picked up his twenty fourth save by hanging out the aspect within the ninth. “Regardless of the stakes, to be in the position that we are in where each game matters, how could you not have fun going out there?”
Thursday’s opener was as tight and tense as you’d count on a sport to play out between the AL’s high groups in mid-September, particularly contemplating the whole lot on the road.
“A really good baseball game, well-played from both sides,” Orioles supervisor Brandon Hyde stated. “They hit one more solo homer than we did.”
Ryan O’Hearn put the Orioles on the board with a second-inning homer off Rays starter Aaron Civale, however Tampa Bay pulled forward within the third on an RBI single by Brandon Lowe and a two-run triple by Randy Arozarena, recent off a game-winning homer Wednesday afternoon in Minnesota and seemingly poised for an additional stretch-run showcase.
“I'm feeling good. The confidence is there. I'm a lot more locked in,” stated Arozarena, talking via interpreter Manny Navarro. The Rays' left fielder is now hitting .341 with 43 RBIs in 47 profession video games towards Baltimore. “Hopefully I can keep it going so that when we start the playoffs, I can be just as focused.”
The Orioles climbed again within the sport, nonetheless. Gunnar Henderson went deep within the fourth, his twenty sixth homer, then Baltimore used a pair of bunts, a stroll and an Adam Frazier floor ball to attain the tying run within the fifth with out hitting a ball out of the infield. But Civale stored them in verify, inducing a double-play grounder from Adley Rutschman to finish the inning.
With Civale performed after 5 innings, the Rays knew they might belief their bullpen to carry the road. They simply wanted to get the lead, and Raley delivered.
Homerless in his final 15 video games, Raley launched Bradish’s 96th pitch of the night time -- a 3-1 slider left up within the zone -- a projected 409 ft out to middle subject then pumped his fists because it landed close to the bottom of the batter’s eye.
“Way too long,” Raley stated of his homer drought. “Hopefully I can build off of it. It did feel good.”
Then the bullpen got here via, as traditional.
Relievers Colin Poche, Shawn Armstrong, Robert Stephenson and Fairbanks retired all 12 batters they confronted and struck out seven of them, extending the bullpen’s streak with out an earned run allowed to 34 innings, relationship again to Sept. 4.
“We know how important this series is, because we want to see who's going to be on top of the division,” Arozarena stated via Navarro. “It was very good that we were able to win today's game.”
They know what’s at stake, and now they’re one step nearer.
“I don't think we look at this as pressure right now. We've got to play good baseball,” supervisor Kevin Cash stated. “I think we more or less look at it like it's a good opportunity for us.”
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