Rays 5, Orioles 2
Record: 75-54
Attendance: 8,153. Oriole Park at Camden Yards
There was some doubt if this game would go into the books at all because it was delayed for over two hours before the bottom of the fifth could be concluded. If the game had been called at that point, it would have been rescheduled. And judging by the downpour at Camden Yards during the delay, it wasn't at all clear play would ever be resumed.
The score was tied two all when the umpires ordered the tarp on the infield. Perhaps the most relieved person on the field when play was resumed was Willy Adames, who committed two errors in the first inning and hit a solo homer in the fifth, his 16th, to tie the game up. The Rays other early run came in the third on a solo HR by Austin Meadows, his 22nd.
And then they waited two hours and 16 minutes before resuming play.
When Adames knocked in Jesus Aguilar and Matt Duffy in the sixth, the score was 4-2, then went up to 5-2 when Meadows scored on a wild pitch. The official crowd was put at 8,153, but only a few stalwart Oriole fans (gluttons for punishment) were still around for the 27th out at one a.m.
Ryan Yarbrough pitched well up to the delay and was followed by Oliver Drake for an inning and a third (and the win), plus cameos for the regular suspects in a Kevin Cash game this year: Poche, Roe, Alvarado, Anderson, and finally Emilio Pagan, who got his 14th save.
It was messy, interrupted, and six hours long, but at the end of the day, it was the Rays 75th win. The boys are lowering their heads and bulling their way through the remaining schedule. They need 19 more games to reach 94 wins, which is probably a safe number to get into the playoffs, but they will be against teams like Houston, Cleveland, both Los Angeles teams, Boston, and New York. It ain't over yet, not by a long shot.
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