Davis’ slam propels Orioles past skidding Rays, 12-5

Baltimore (45-30) now heads out on a nine-game West Coast road trip on a five-game winning streak.

On Sunday, the Orioles will be starting right-hander Tyler Wilson. We’re playing hard. We’re running balls out. He’s been ought against us, Wieters said.

Baltimore’s power sparked another comeback victory.

Orioles: LHP Brian Duensing underwent surgery to remove bone chips from his elbow.

After falling into an early 3-0 hole, the Orioles finally got their first baserunner against Matt Moore (3-5) in the fifth inning and turned the game around in the sixth.

But in addition to the power, the Baltimore defense stepped up again. Adam Jones singled off a ball well out of the zone to center to score the second run off Andriese.

“Just poor execution, I think”, Tillman said of what went wrong in his outing. “I had the chance to right the ship and I didn’t”. It followed a solo blast by Davis in the sixth inning that pulled the Orioles within one on the scoreboard. Starter Chris Tillman was seemingly on the ropes, and the Birds trailed 4-0. He allowed homers to Desmond Jennings and Oswaldo Arcia and gave up five earned runs on 10 hits.

“It’s good to take care of our home turf, ” said Jones, who reached base in all five of his plate appearances. “I kind of left our bullpen out to dry. It was a bad time for a bad game with the team scuffling and we had a lead”.

Baltimore Orioles’ Chris Davis (19) celebrates his grand slam with Adam Jones, left, during the first inning of a baseball game against the Tampa Bay Rays, Sunday, June 26, 2016, in Baltimore. Joey Rickard led off with a double off of Erasmo Ramirez (7-6) and scored on Jones’ game-tying single. Jones hit an RBI single off Erasmo Ramirez (7-6) and Davis greeted Xavier Cedeno with a run-scoring single. Wieters is 10-for-20 with three homers and nine RBIs in his last six contests. 3.

Britton has posted saves in all 23 of his save opportunities. Manny Machado and Jonathan Schoop each had three. In his 14 starts and 2-7 record this year, Smyly has contributed a 4.78 ERA with a 1.18 WHIP in 84.2 innings of work. The win completed a four game sweep over the Tampa Bay Rays who dropped their 11th game in a row. McFarland faced the leadoff hitter.

Those are crocodile tears, but it painted the picture of how Baltimore was feeling at the time. The Rays have now given up 72 runs in their 11 straight losses.

The Mets led 8-0 after Loney’s three-run homer in the fifth. If C Caleb Joseph (testicular injury) shows no ill effects from catching Monday at Class-A Frederick, he could return as soon as Wednesday, manager Buck Showalter said. You find out a little bit about each other. We just came up short. But Baltimore’s done fine in them anyway, going 6-1. In Friday’s opener, the Orioles bagged a 6-3 victory.

Tampa Bay hit.183 in the seven games prior to Friday, and manager Kevin Cash shook up the lineup with a number of moves in that game as the Rays face the Orioles and Boston in back-to-back series, and don’t want to slip farther back in the American League East. Baltimore put the game away in the seventh with a two-out, two-RBI single by Pedro Alvarez off Enny Romero that extended the lead to 5-0.