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Baltimore Orioles<\/a> (60-63, fifth in the AL East) vs. Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> (74-48, first in the AL East)<\/p>\n

St. Petersburg, Florida; Sunday, 12:15 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Orioles: Trevor Rogers<\/a> (7-8, 4.21 ERA, 1.25 WHIP, 102 strikeouts); Rays: Freddy Peralta<\/a> (5-9, 5.33 ERA, 1.50 WHIP, 121 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Rays -141, Orioles +124; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Tampa Bay Rays are looking to break their three-game home skid with a win over the Baltimore Orioles.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay has a 41-20 record in home games and a 74-48 record overall. Rays pitchers have a collective 3.71 ERA, which ranks fourth in the AL.<\/p>\n

Baltimore is 28-33 in road games and 60-63 overall. The Orioles have the ninth-ranked team slugging percentage in the AL at .397.<\/p>\n

Sunday’s game is the ninth time these teams match up this season. The Orioles are ahead 5-3 in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Chandler Simpson<\/a> leads the Rays with a .308 batting average, and has 12 doubles, six triples, 21 walks and 25 RBIs. Yandy Diaz<\/a> is 15 for 47 with two home runs and six RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Pete Alonso<\/a> has 22 doubles and 27 home runs for the Orioles. Coby Mayo<\/a> is 9 for 32 with a double, two triples, a home run and five RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Rays: 8-2, .279 batting average, 3.29 ERA, outscored opponents by 25 runs<\/p>\n

Orioles: 5-5, .251 batting average, 4.34 ERA, outscored by one run<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Rays: Victor Mesa<\/a> Jr.: day-to-day (hamstring), Cole Sulser<\/a>: 15-Day IL (back), Shane McClanahan<\/a>: 15-Day IL (back), Manuel Rodriguez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Edwin Uceta<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Gavin Lux: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jon Heasley: 60-Day IL (elbow), Griffin Jax: 15-Day IL (elbow), Ben Williamson<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Jake Fraley<\/a>: 60-Day IL (groin), Ryan Pepiot<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hip)<\/p>\n

Orioles: Blaze Alexander: 10-Day IL (hand), Ryan Mountcastle: 60-Day IL (foot), Samuel Basallo<\/a>: 10-Day IL (shoulder), Colin Selby: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Zach Eflin: 60-Day IL (elbow), Keegan Akin: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ryan Helsley<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Felix Bautista<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jordan Westburg<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ucl)<\/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 (60-63, fifth in the AL East) vs. Tampa Bay Rays (74-48, first in the AL East)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2377],"tags":[47,5,4806,457,583,7882,6925,75686,584,753,1180,581,19,1095,4,74,297,109,1956,7326,5720,2550,68,2551,2549,9009,16204,3348],"class_list":["post-780077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa-bay-rays","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-baseball","tag-ben-williamson","tag-chandler-simpson","tag-coby-mayo","tag-cole-sulser","tag-edwin-uceta","tag-event_preview","tag-felix-bautista","tag-freddy-peralta","tag-jake-fraley","tag-jordan-westburg","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-manuel-rodriguez","tag-mlb","tag-pete-alonso","tag-rays","tag-ryan-helsley","tag-ryan-pepiot","tag-samuel-basallo","tag-shane-mcclanahan","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-tampabay","tag-tampabayrays","tag-trevor-rogers","tag-victor-mesa-jr","tag-yandy-diaz"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117104219458774949","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780077","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=780077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}