Tampa Bay 7, Detroit 4
When: 7:10 PM ET, Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Where: Tropicana Field, St. Petersburg, Florida
Temperature:
Indoors
Umpires:
Home -
Gary Cederstrom, 1B -
Ed Hickox, 2B -
Fieldin Culbreth, 3B -
Manuel Gonzalez
Attendance:
16209
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Evan Longoria homered and had three of Tampa Bay’s 14 hits as the Rays handed the Detroit Tigers their ninth straight road loss with a 7-4 decision on Wednesday night.
Longoria gave the Rays some breathing room with a two-run homer in the eighth inning, just his third home run in his last 32 games. He entered the contest on an 0-for-18 tailspin, but his blast to left broke open a 5-4 game.
Detroit took a 2-0 lead in the first inning on an RBI double by Johnny Damon and a run-scoring single by Jeff Larish. Damon homered in the third to make it 3-1.
But Tampa Bay tied the score with a pair of runs in the third. Carlos Pena drove in one with a single and the second scored on an RBI groundout by Willy Aybar.
The Rays took a 5-3 lead in the fourth as Jason Bartlett singled to score Reid Brignac, and Carl Crawford followed with an RBI grounder.
Jeff Niemann (9-3) picked up the win. He allowed four runs on eight hits in six innings. Rafael Soriano pitched a perfect ninth inning for his 28th save.
Miguel Cabrera hit his 25th home run of the season for Detroit. Eddie Bonine (4-1) took the loss as he was charged with five runs in 3 1/3 innings.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
| Detroit |
|
Tampa Bay |
|
Eddie Bonine |
Player |
Jeff Niemann
|
|
Loss |
W/L |
Win |
|
3.1 |
IP |
6.0 |
|
1 |
Strikeouts |
4 |
|
8 |
Hits |
8 |
|
13.50 |
ERA |
6.00 |
Hitting
| Detroit |
|
Tampa Bay |
|
Johnny Damon | Player |
Evan Longoria
|
|
2 |
Hits |
3 |
|
2 |
RBI |
2 |
|
1 |
HR |
1 |
|
6 |
TB |
6 |
|
.500 |
Avg |
.750 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| Detroit
|
9 |
2 |
17 |
.265 |
15 |
7 |
4 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
| Tampa Bay
|
14 |
1 |
18 |
.378 |
22 |
3 |
7 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
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