Phillips Races For Inside-The-Park HR, Rays Rout O’s 9-2

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Brett Phillips had an inside-the-park homer, Brandon Lowe went heavy twice, and the AL East-leading Tampa Bay Rays handed the Baltimore Orioles their 12th consecutive loss, 9-2 connected Monday night.

Baltimore has been outscored 113-36 during the skid. The Orioles dropped 14 successful a enactment from May 18-31.

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Kevin Kiermaier and Mike Brosseau besides homered for the Rays, who are 12-1 against the Orioles this season. Tampa Bay has outscored Baltimore 103-51, and has had 9 runs oregon much successful 8 of the games.

Josh Fleming (10-6) followed opener Collin McHugh and gave up 2 runs and six hits implicit 5 2/3 innings.

McHugh struck retired 1 implicit 2 cleanable innings. He has not allowed an earned tally successful 16 consecutive appearances, spanning a team-record 32 consecutive innings.

Phillips sent a leadoff thrust successful the sixth disconnected Paul Fry to the left-center tract partition that bounded past halfway fielder Cedric Mullins and was retrieved by near fielder D.J.Stewart. The speedster ended his dash astir the bases with a head-first thrust to bushed a relay propulsion astatine the plate.

The announced assemblage for the opener of a seven-game homestand for the Rays was conscionable 5,460.

Lowe deed his 2nd homer of the crippled and career-high 28th, a two-run changeable disconnected Fry aboriginal successful the sixth to enactment the Rays up 8-1.

Austin Meadows enactment the Rays up 2-1 with a two-run triple disconnected Matt Harvey (6-12) successful the fourth. Meadows was thrown retired astatine the sheet erstwhile Harvey came disconnected the mound to tract Brosseau’s chopper barehanded and flip the shot to catcher Austin Wynns.

Kiermaier and Lowe had solo drives during a three-run 5th to marque it 5-1.

Brosseau homered successful the seventh.

Harvey, who entered 3-1 with a 1.65 ERA successful 5 starts since the All-Star break, allowed 5 runs and 5 hits successful 4 ⅔ innings.

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After fouling a brace of balls disconnected his legs, Baltimore’s Trey Mancini had an RBI treble successful the eighth.

Baltimore had runners connected archetypal and 3rd with nary outs successful the third, but scored conscionable erstwhile connected Mullins’ sacrifice bunt.

ANOTHER CHANCE

The Rays signed RHP David Robertson to a large league contract, and volition person him study to Triple-A Durham. The 36-year aged reliever pitched for the silver-medal winning USA squad successful the Tokyo Olympics.

MOVING UP

OF Colton Cowser, taken 5th wide successful this year’s draught by Baltimore, was promoted to Class-A Delmarva from the rookie-level FCL, wherever helium went 11 for 22 with a homer and 8 RBIs successful 7 games.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Orioles: OF Ryan Mountcastle (concussion) whitethorn beryllium backmost successful a mates days.

Rays: RHP Matt Wisler (right mediate finger) became the 17th Tampa Bay pitcher connected the IL. … 1B Yandy Díaz could commencement Tuesday. … LHP Jeffrey Springs had country to reconstruct a torn ACL successful his close knee. … RHPs Ryan Thompson (shoulder) and J.P. Feyereisen (shoulder) some worked a scoreless innings for the FCL Rays.

UP NEXT

Orioles ace John Means (5-4) and Tampa Bay RHP Drew Rasmussen (1-1) are Tuesday night’s starters.

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