Tampa Bay 10, Baltimore 5
When: 6:10 PM ET, Saturday, September 8, 2018
Where: Tropicana Field, St. Petersburg, Florida
Temperature:
Indoors
Umpires:
Home -
Chris Conroy, 1B -
Nic Lentz, 2B -
CB Bucknor, 3B -
Fieldin Culbreth
Attendance:
10275
By Field Level Media
The Tampa Bay Rays keep hanging on the fringe of contending for an American League wild-card spot, while the Baltimore Orioles reached a dubious level of futility.
Matt Duffy had two hits and two RBIs to lead the Rays to a 10-5 win over the Orioles on Saturday in St. Petersburg, Fla.
The Rays stayed eight games behind Oakland for the second wild-card spot, also trailing Seattle. Meanwhile, the Orioles fell to 60 games under .500 at 41-101.
The Rays jumped on the Orioles early, scoring four runs in the first to take a 4-0 lead.
Mallex Smith scored on a wild pitch from Baltimore starter David Hess (3-10), Ji-Man Choi hit a sacrifice fly to make it 2-0, Jake Bauers had an RBI single that made it 3-0 game and Willy Adames scored on a double-steal to give the Rays a 4-0 lead.
Joey Wendle reached on a sacrifice bunt for an RBI to give the Rays a 5-0 lead in the second before the Orioles cut their deficit to 5-1 in the third on an RBI infield single by Jonathan Villar.
Baltimore cut Tampa Bay's lead to 5-3 in the fourth on a two-run homer by Renato Nunez.
The Rays added two runs in the sixth when Adames scored on a wild pitch and Wendle hit a sacrifice fly.
Baltimore answered in the seventh, cutting the deficit to 7-5 on a two-run single by Villar.
But Tampa put the game away with three runs in the home half of the seventh.
A two-run single by Matt Duffy made it 9-5, and then an RBI single by Smith made it 10-5.
After right-hander Diego Castillo worked an inning as Tampa Bay's "opening" pitcher, Ryan Yarbrough (14-5) came on and got the win, despite allowing six hits, three runs and two walks in 3 2/3 innings.
Hess, who was hit in the eye playing catch with a football prior to Friday night's game, allowed six runs (two earned) on seven hits in five innings.
The Rays used eight pitchers overall.
--Field Level Media
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Baltimore |
|
Tampa Bay |
David Hess
|
Player |
Diego Castillo
|
Loss |
W/L |
No Decision |
5.0 |
IP |
1.0 |
3 |
Strikeouts |
1 |
7 |
Hits |
1 |
3.60 |
ERA |
0.00 |
Team Stats Summary
Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
Baltimore
|
11 |
1 |
15 |
.324 |
11 |
10 |
5 |
3 |
3 |
1 |
Tampa Bay
|
14 |
0 |
19 |
.400 |
16 |
7 |
7 |
1 |
2 |
1 |