Rays look to break skid in matchup with the Orioles<\/p>\n
Baltimore Orioles (63-67, fifth in the AL East)<\/p>\n
BALTIMORE \u2014<\/p>\n
The Tampa Bay Rays come into the matchup against the Baltimore Orioles after losing three straight games.<\/p>\n
Video above: Headlines from WGAL News 8.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay Rays (76-53, first in the AL East) vs. Baltimore Orioles (63-67, fifth in the AL East)<\/p>\n
Baltimore is 34-33 at home and 63-67 overall. The Orioles have the 10th-ranked team slugging percentage in the AL at .397.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay is 33-30 on the road and 76-53 overall. The Rays have the third-ranked team slugging percentage in the AL at .406.<\/p>\n
Sunday’s game is the 13th time these teams square off this season. The Orioles have an 8-4 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Pete Alonso has 23 doubles and 30 home runs for the Orioles. Gunnar Henderson is 11 for 36 with three doubles and a home run over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Liam Hicks has 12 doubles, a triple, 17 home runs and 72 RBIs for the Rays. Yandy Diaz is 15 for 42 with two home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Orioles: 5-5, .238 batting average, 4.10 ERA, outscored opponents by one run<\/p>\n
Rays: 3-7, .277 batting average, 5.70 ERA, outscored by 16 runs<\/p>\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Rays: Nick Martinez (12-4, 3.05 ERA, 1.14 WHIP, 83 strikeouts); Orioles: Shane Baz (4-13, 4.02 ERA, 1.35 WHIP, 132 strikeouts)<\/p>\n
First pitch in Baltimore; Sunday, 1:35 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rays look to break skid in matchup with the Orioles Baltimore Orioles (63-67, fifth in the AL East)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2374],"tags":[143,47,2538,5,296,4,125,297,295],"class_list":["post-786372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baltimore-orioles","tag-baltimore","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-baltimoreorioles","tag-baseball","tag-bay","tag-mlb","tag-orioles","tag-rays","tag-tampa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117145471749352899","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786372","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=786372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}