Tennessee Titans running back Tony Pollard (20) is stuffed on a fourth-and-goal direct snap in Sunday’s 24-18 loss to the Baltimore Ravens. CBS BROADCAST SCREENSHOT

BALTIMORE — After all these years, the Baltimore Ravens still have a knack for creating and capitalizing on Tennessee Titans mistakes like few other teams have done.

The Ravens converted two Titans turnovers and a turnover on downs into 17 points Sunday on their way to a 24-18 victory.

The Titans held their former star Derrick Henry mostly in check, holding him to 73 yards on 23 carries and a touchdown.

But Tennessee had no answers for Lamar Jackson and the Ravens passing attack in dropping to 0-4 on the season for the second straight year.

Jackson, who did not play in the second half due to an ankle injury, played so well that the Ravens were able to coast to the finish line after building a 24-7 halftime lead.

The Ravens overcame 13 penalties for 131 yards and still built a comfortable advantage. They turned the offense over to backup QB Tyler Huntley for the second half and allowed the Titans a Joey Slye field goal and consolation touchdown pass from Cam Ward to Wan’Dale Robinson late that made the final score a bit closer.

When the game was still in doubt, the Titans showed some pluckiness, despite a turnover on the first drive that set up Baltimore’s first touchdown. 

On the first series, it looked like the type of opportunistic play by the Ravens that has burned the Titans so many times against them in the past. After a 15-yard completion off play action to Chimere Dike on the first play gave the Titans the ball at the Ravens 43-yard line, Ward was pressured, stepped up in the pocket and as he was going down flipped an end-over-end pass toward Tony Pollard. The ball ricocheted off Pollard’s hands and into the arms of Trenton Simpson, who returned it to the Titans 37. Five plays later, it was Henry bulling his way into the end zone from five yards out to put the Ravens on top 7-0.

“He was just trying to make a play. Unfortunately, it just slipped through my hands and it was the right play (for them) at the right time,” Pollard said. “Absolutely (I have to catch it). That was a big swing of momentum, but we did a good job of coming out and responding.”

The Titans did answer on the ensuing drive. Ward directed an impressive drive, going 70 yards in 10 plays with Pollard atoning for the pick with a 3-yard touchdown run to tie the game.

In the second quarter, Baltimore regained the lead for good as Jackson capped a touchdown drive with a 19-yard touchdown pass to Zay Flowers to put the Ravens up 14-7.

It appeared that the Titans had another answer on the ensuing series, driving from their own 25 down to the Ravens 8 with a first-and-goal.

But the Titans called four straight running plays on the goal-to-go series, including a direct Wildcat snap to Pollard on fourth down at the 2-yard line that was stopped by the Baltimore defense.

The Ravens then drove 98 yards in eight plays, with Jackson finding Mark Andrews from 3 yards out to put Baltimore up 21-7. The biggest play of that drive came when Jackson found Titans linebacker Cody Barton trying to keep up with Flowers on a deep out and up for 52 yards.

Barton explained that the cover four situation and the play the Ravens ran with a clearout route put him on Flowers — an obvious mismatch with a linebacker on a speed receiver.

“It was like a seven-go. We just happened to be in that play in a coverage where that’s the one route where that’s the hardest thing to defend. And they ran the exact thing to that. It was a tough situation. I just put my head down and started running as fast as I could,” Barton explained.

Down 21-7, the Titans got into the two-minute offense and Ward drilled a missile to Carnell Tate, who caught it for 33 yards, only to have Kyle Hamilton, who had been beaten on the play, punch it out of the rookie’s grasp. The Ravens recovered the fumble and converted it into Tyler Loop’s 64-yard field goal as the first half expired.

“Kyle made a play. I thought I had lost him on the route, and I turned upfield, and he was behind me,” Tate said. “It’s always the ones you don’t see that causes the fumbles.”

For the remainder of the game, played in a steady rain, the Ravens were content to play ball control on offense, knowing the Titans were not likely to climb out of their first-half hole.

The Titans managed a 33-yard Slye field goal in the third quarter and Ward’s 3-yard pass to Robinson with 1:12 to play, plus a two-point conversion from Ward to Gunnar Helm to account for the final margin.

“I thought our offense came out and played with some juice, but then we had the two turnovers that gave them 10 points, and the turnover on downs inside the 5. It was a goofy game in that it didn’t feel like 24-7 at halftime,” coach Robert Saleh said. “I appreciate how our guys came out and fought (in the second half) and tried to make a game of it. But overall it was one of those weird games.”

Over the years, the Ravens have made a habit of beating the Titans with those “weird” games, dating back from being the first visiting team to win at Nissan Stadium on a missed extra point to their playoff wins in 2000 and 2008, when the Titans were a No. 1 seed both times.

Sunday’s game didn’t have those types of stakes, but it served to remind the Titans that they don’t have much room for error, and against a team like Baltimore, that margin is even slimmer.

Overall, Ward had a decent day. He made some nice throws and showed some calm in the pocket. He finished 20 of 31 passing for a season-high 222 yards with one TD and the one interception.

The Titans now return home Sunday and will face AFC South rival Houston in a matchup of winless teams.