Tampa Bay 5, Baltimore 4
When: 12:10 PM ET, Wednesday, July 21, 2021
Where: Tropicana Field, St. Petersburg, Florida
Temperature:
Indoors
Umpires:
Home -
Fieldin Culbreth, 1B -
Ryan Blakney, 2B -
D.J. Reyburn, 3B -
Brian O'Nora
Attendance:
8968
By Field Level Media
Austin Meadows delivered a two-run, two-out walk-off single in the ninth inning as the Tampa Bay Rays rallied to beat the Baltimore Orioles 5-4 on Wednesday at St. Petersburg, Fla.
Down 4-3 heading into the ninth, Francisco Mejia (2-for-4) opened the frame with a single off Tanner Scott (3-4). After Yandy Diaz struck out, pinch-hitter Mike Zunino walked and Randy Arozarena, who homered twice in the contest, blooped a ball that fell into right field following a collision between Baltimore's Pat Valaika and Ryan Mountcastle.
Scott then struck out Vidal Brujan, but with two strikes, Meadows drilled his second hit of the day to right-center field, giving Tampa Bay a second consecutive win and series victory over Baltimore.
Mountcastle homered and broke a 3-3 tie with his RBI single in the sixth for the Orioles, who are 1-8 against the Rays this season.
The Orioles wasted no time getting to Tampa Bay's Michael Wacha with back-to-back doubles from Cedric Mullins (2-for-4) and Austin Hays to start the game.
Arozarena, though, opened the bottom of the first with a homer to left field off Baltimore's Alexander Wells, who made his first career start after scheduled starter Keegan Akin was placed on the COVID-19 injured list earlier Wednesday. The Orioles also put outfielder Anthony Santander on the same injured list.
Joey Wendle gave the Rays a 2-1 lead with an RBI triple in the second, but Baltimore tied it on Valaika's homer in the third. Mountcastle put the Orioles ahead 3-2 with his home run in the fourth, then Arozarena tied the game with his third homer in two days to center field.
Wells completed 5 2/3 innings, giving up three runs on five hits and striking out seven to go with two walks in a rather serviceable outing.
Wacha, meanwhile, also yielded three runs on six hits over five innings for the Rays. Collin McHugh (3-1) pitched two innings of one-hit ball to earn the win.
--Field Level Media
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
| Baltimore |
|
Tampa Bay |
|
Alexander Wells |
Player |
Michael Wacha
|
|
No Decision |
W/L |
No Decision |
|
5.2 |
IP |
5.0 |
|
7 |
Strikeouts |
2 |
|
5 |
Hits |
6 |
|
4.76 |
ERA |
5.40 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| Baltimore
|
9 |
2 |
18 |
.265 |
9 |
7 |
4 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
| Tampa Bay
|
9 |
2 |
19 |
.257 |
15 |
13 |
5 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
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