Tampa Bay 10, Baltimore 6
When: 7:35 PM ET, Thursday, September 17, 2020
Where: Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Baltimore, Maryland
Temperature:
70°
Umpires:
Home -
Clint Vondrak, 1B -
Dan Iassogna, 2B -
Tripp Gibson III, 3B -
Ryan Wills
Attendance:
By Field Level Media
Willy Adames and Joey Wendle both homered and drove in three runs as the visiting Tampa Bay Rays completed a sweep of Thursday's doubleheader with a 10-6 victory over the Baltimore Orioles, clinching a spot in the American League playoffs.
Tampa Bay won the first game 3-1, thanks to two runs in the seventh and final inning -- both games were seven frames. The Rays were the home team in the second game since this contest was a make-up of a game washed out in Tampa earlier this season.
Home runs often were the story in a game that bounced back and forth. The Rays hit three, but it was a fifth inning filled with dinks and dunks that made the difference and let Tampa Bay pull out the sweep.
Nate Lowe's single snapped a 6-6 tie in the fifth, and Kevan Smith singled on a slow roller up the third-base line that pitcher Dillon Tate couldn't make a play on. That made it 8-6 before Wendle and Randy Arozarena both added sacrifice flies to complete the scoring at 10-6.
Adames hit a three-run shot off Baltimore native and starter Bruce Zimmermann in the first. Against Zimmermann, who was making his major-league debut, Adames was trying to bounce back after striking out four times in the first game.
His homer gave the Rays (33-18) a 3-0 lead. Baltimore answered in the second with a solo homer from Hanser Alberto. A Ryan Mountcastle double in the third sliced the lead to 3-2 before Hunter Renfroe crushed a shot to left that pushed the lead back up to two for the Rays in the bottom half of the inning.
But the Orioles (22-29) erased that deficit with a four-run fourth. Rio Ruiz tied the score at 4-4- with a two-run homer, and DJ Stewart gave the team its first lead of the night with a two-run double.
That lead, though, didn't last too long. Wendle tied it for the Rays with a two-run homer off Travis Lakins in the bottom of the fourth. Tampa Bay then scored four runs in the fifth.
Pete Fairbanks (5-3) got the win while Cole Sulser (1-5) was tagged with the loss. Sulser gave up three runs in 1/3 of an inning while Fairbanks pitched a scoreless inning of relief.
--Field Level Media
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Baltimore |
|
Tampa Bay |
Bruce Zimmermann
|
Player |
Trevor Richards |
No Decision |
W/L |
No Decision |
3.0 |
IP |
3.1 |
2 |
Strikeouts |
4 |
4 |
Hits |
5 |
15.00 |
ERA |
10.80 |
Team Stats Summary
Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
Baltimore
|
10 |
2 |
18 |
.323 |
12 |
9 |
6 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
Tampa Bay
|
10 |
3 |
20 |
.400 |
9 |
7 |
10 |
3 |
1 |
1 |