{"id":153477,"date":"2025-07-05T10:15:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T10:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/153477\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T10:15:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T10:15:13","slug":"pepiot-strikes-out-season-high-11-to-lead-rays-past-orioles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/153477\/","title":{"rendered":"Pepiot strikes out season-high 11 to lead Rays past Orioles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Ryan Pepiot had a season-high 11 strikeouts, Jake Mangum went 3 for 4 with three RBIs and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Baltimore Orioles 7-1 on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Pepiot (4-6), in his team-leading 15th start, finished one strikeout short of matching his career best. He allowed four hits and one earned run in a 98-pitch effort.<\/p>\n<p>Forrest Whitley made his debut with the Rays in the ninth inning and retired three straight to extend the bullpen\u2019s scoreless streak to 16 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay has won four straight and gone 19-6 in its last 25 games. The Rays also picked up their eighth straight series-opening victory.<\/p>\n<p>Baltimore, which scored 11 runs\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/angels-orioles-score-fa0da2ea3668d3b523510fd82a1ccc3f\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on Sunday against the Los Angeles Angels<\/a>, lost for just the fifth time in 16 games.<\/p>\n<p>The Rays scored a run in each of the first five innings, including Josh Lowe\u2019s first career leadoff home run. Brandon Lowe\u2019s two-run shot in the fourth \u2014 his 14th homer of the season \u2014 gave Tampa Bay a 5-1 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Mangum had two infield singles and a double to extend his hit streak to five games. He\u2019s batting .304 with 14 RBIs in his last 15 games.<\/p>\n<p>Baltimore starter Zach Eflin (6-3) gave up 12 hits and seven earned runs in five innings.<\/p>\n<p>Adley Rutschman hit his eighth home run of the season in the fourth for the Orioles.<\/p>\n<p>Key moment<\/p>\n<p>Mangum\u2019s third hit went into the left-field corner for a standup-double and a 7-1 lead. It was the 11th time in the last 25 games that the Rays scored six or more runs.<\/p>\n<p>Key stat<\/p>\n<p>Pepiot has a 1.91 ERA in his last five home starts, with 29 strikeouts in 33 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay plays the second game of the homestand on Tuesday with RHP Zack Littell (6-6, 3.84 ERA) against Baltimore RHP Dean Kremer (5-7, 4.99).<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Ryan Pepiot had a season-high 11 strikeouts, Jake Mangum went 3 for 4 with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2377],"tags":[1769,5,610,4,184,557,297,185,295,2550,68,2551,2549],"class_list":{"0":"post-153477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-rays","8":"tag-associated-press","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-fl","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-orlando","13":"tag-professional-baseball","14":"tag-rays","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-tampa","17":"tag-tampa-bay","18":"tag-tampa-bay-rays","19":"tag-tampabay","20":"tag-tampabayrays"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114800107535626549","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}