{"id":703851,"date":"2026-05-20T09:09:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/703851\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T09:09:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:09:20","slug":"rays-host-the-orioles-aim-to-continue-home-win-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/703851\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays host the Orioles, aim to continue home win streak"},"content":{"rendered":"

Baltimore Orioles<\/a> (21-28, fifth in the AL East) vs. Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> (32-15, first in the AL East)<\/p>\n

St. Petersburg, Florida; Wednesday, 1:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Orioles: Shane Baz<\/a> (1-5, 5.26 ERA, 1.52 WHIP, 42 strikeouts); Rays: Jesse Scholtens<\/a> (4-2, 3.06 ERA, 1.11 WHIP, 25 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Rays -130, Orioles +109; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Tampa Bay Rays will try to keep their three-game home win streak alive when they face the Baltimore Orioles.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay is 32-15 overall and 18-5 in home games. The Rays have the third-ranked team ERA in the AL at 3.59.<\/p>\n

Baltimore is 9-16 on the road and 21-28 overall. The Orioles have a 16-5 record in games when they scored five or more runs.<\/p>\n

The matchup Wednesday is the third time these teams meet this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Yandy Diaz<\/a> has a .316 batting average to lead the Rays, and has seven doubles, a triple and eight home runs. Cedric Mullins<\/a> is 12 for 34 with a home run and five RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Taylor Ward<\/a> has a .262 batting average to lead the Orioles, and has 15 doubles and two home runs. Samuel Basallo<\/a> is 11 for 35 with a home run and three RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Rays: 7-3, .281 batting average, 3.75 ERA, outscored opponents by 19 runs<\/p>\n

Orioles: 4-6, .234 batting average, 5.55 ERA, outscored by 19 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Rays: Yandy Diaz: day-to-day (hand), Jake Fraley<\/a>: 10-Day IL (groin), Cole Sulser<\/a>: 15-Day IL (back), Gavin Lux: 10-Day IL (shoulder), Steven Matz<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Ryan Pepiot<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hip), Edwin Uceta<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Steven Wilson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (back), Manuel Rodriguez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Michael Grove<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n

Orioles: Ryan Helsley<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Jordan Westburg<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ucl), Dylan Beavers: 10-Day IL (oblique), Grant Wolfram: 15-Day IL (back), Heston Kjerstad<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hamstring), Cade Povich: 15-Day IL (elbow), Dean Kremer<\/a>: 15-Day IL (quadricep), Felix Bautista<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Colin Selby: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Zach Eflin: 60-Day IL (elbow), Yaramil Hiraldo: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Ryan Mountcastle: 60-Day IL (foot)<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Baltimore Orioles (21-28, fifth in the AL East) vs. Tampa Bay Rays (32-15, first in the AL East)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2377],"tags":[47,5,77,7882,913,6925,75686,584,1752,1180,4158,581,19,1095,7908,4,297,109,1956,7326,5144,1555,4274,2550,68,2551,2549,5694,3348],"class_list":["post-703851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa-bay-rays","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-baseball","tag-cedric-mullins","tag-cole-sulser","tag-dean-kremer","tag-edwin-uceta","tag-event_preview","tag-felix-bautista","tag-heston-kjerstad","tag-jake-fraley","tag-jesse-scholtens","tag-jordan-westburg","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-manuel-rodriguez","tag-michael-grove","tag-mlb","tag-rays","tag-ryan-helsley","tag-ryan-pepiot","tag-samuel-basallo","tag-shane-baz","tag-steven-matz","tag-steven-wilson","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-tampabay","tag-tampabayrays","tag-taylor-ward","tag-yandy-diaz"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116606124878805212","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703851","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=703851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}