Rays 2, Orioles 4
Record: 81-59
Attendance: 6,844 (For both games, if you can believe it--not even the thrills of a pennant race can budge Rays fans from their Barco-Loungers.)
The Baltimore Orioles seem to be on a mission to keep the Rays out of the playoffs. They beat the Rays in back-to-back games on August 24 and 25, and they beat the Rays in the opening game of a double header on Tuesday. After 140 games, the Rays sit with an 81-59 record. With 22 games remaining, they need to finish 14-8 to win 94 games on the season and virtually seal a playoff spot, but 14-8 seems a long way off at this point.
The opening game saw them collect a mere six hits and go scoreless for eight of nine innings. But they did score first in the fourth with a two-run homer from Travis d'Arnaud, his 16th. But the Orioles came back with two in the fifth and one each in the sixth and ninth. The gaming winning blow was Anthony Santander's solo homer in the sixth off Oliver Drake, who took the loss and is now 3-2 on the year. Newly brought up Peter Fairbanks and Hoby Milner pitched two innings of shaky baseball, with Milner giving up the final run in the ninth inning.
The Rays five-game home winning streak came to a screeching halt. The Rays looked perilously close to going on one of their patented scoreless inning streaks. The whole team played like they were scared of losing and not like they were on a mission to win their way into the postseason. Very discouraging.
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