Baltimore 4, Tampa Bay 1
When: 6:50 PM ET, Friday, August 9, 2024
Where: Tropicana Field, St. Petersburg, Florida
Temperature:
Indoors
Umpires:
Home -
Chad Fairchild, 1B -
Carlos Torres, 2B -
Brian Walsh, 3B -
Ryan Wills
Attendance:
20673
By Field Level Media
Zach Eflin scattered four hits over seven shutout innings, and Colton Cowser and Cedric Mullins each homered to lead the Baltimore Orioles to a 4-1 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays in the opener of a three-game series on Friday night in St. Petersburg, Fla.
Eflin (8-7), who was traded by Tampa Bay to Baltimore on July 26, walked one and struck out seven while improving to 3-0 in three starts with the Orioles. Baltimore, which improved to 25-12 against teams in the American League East, moved a half-game ahead of the New York Yankees for first place in the AL East.
Eflin, who went 21-15 with a 3.72 ERA in 50 starts with the Rays during the 2023 and 2024 seasons, threw 94 pitches, 61 for strikes.
Eloy Jimenez had three hits, Ryan O'Hearn went 2-for-3 with two RBIs and a walk, and James McCann also had two hits and a run scored for Baltimore, which improved to 7-1 against Tampa Bay this season.
Dylan Carlson homered and Jose Caballero had a double for Tampa Bay. Zack Littell (5-8) had a two-start winning streak snapped after allowing three runs on eight hits over five innings. He walked one and struck out five.
Baltimore took a 1-0 lead in the first inning when Cowser led off with his 18th home run of the season on the fourth pitch of the game.
The Orioles increased their lead to 3-0 in the fifth inning. Ramon Urias led off with a single, advanced to second on an infield single by McCann and went to third on a long flyout to center by Anthony Santander. Gunnar Henderson followed with a walk to load the bases and O'Hearn hit a bloop single to center to drive in Urias and McCann.
Mullins made it 4-0 in the sixth when he hit his 12th home run, a towering 426-foot drive to center off reliever Richard Lovelady.
Carlson cut it to 4-1 when he led off the bottom of the ninth with a home run off Yannier Cano that went just inside the right field foul pole.
--Field Level Media
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
| Baltimore |
|
Tampa Bay |
|
Zach Eflin
|
Player |
Zack Littell
|
|
Win |
W/L |
Loss |
|
7.0 |
IP |
5.0 |
|
7 |
Strikeouts |
5 |
|
4 |
Hits |
7 |
|
0.00 |
ERA |
1.80 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| Baltimore
|
10 |
2 |
16 |
.270 |
16 |
11 |
4 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
| Tampa Bay
|
5 |
1 |
9 |
.156 |
9 |
9 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
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