ST. PETERSBURG (Fla.) — The Baltimore OriolesThe streak of winning ended at 10 Christian Bethancourt The Rays scored a 5-4 win Friday night after he hit his first home run in Tampa Bay.
Since 1999, when they won 13 consecutive games, the Orioles had their longest winning streak in a single season.
Ramon Urias Two home runs for the Orioles were his first multi-homer game in his career. Trey Mancini It was also connected. Baltimore left the bases empty in the fifth and sixth innings, but it did not score in those innings.
Brandon Hyde, Orioles manager said, “We just had an awful inning on the mound” and that too many runners were on base in the early part of the game.
The Rays trailed by 2-1 in the sixth. They got four consecutive extra-base hits with just two outs.
Josh Lowe And Yu Chang Double your savings Tyler Wells To tie it, use (7-5) Francisco Mejia You will be greeted Cionel Perez With a go ahead double
Bethancourt’s pinch-hit homer from the left field foul pole was then launched at 318 feet. This is the shortest over the fence home run at a major-league venue since Houston’s. Yuli Gurriel Hit one 315ft from Boston’s Pesky Pole June 10, 2021.
Hyde said, “It wasn’t a very good one down the road.”
Baltimore left fielder Anthony Santander The ball almost got caught in the corner. It took replay to overturn the original foul ball call.
Bethancourt said that he didn’t believe it was good enough to be called a homer and then he thought he might have hit it out. He took a delayed trip around bases.
“I was looking at it and looking at it.” [Santander] I didn’t see the ball land in fair territory. I was therefore a bit confused to see everybody in our dugout celebrating. He explained that he was standing there, and didn’t know what he meant.
Before being traded to the Rays last Wednesday, Bethancourt had hit four homers in Oakland this season.
Matt Wisler (3) won the relief game. Brooks Raley He pitched the ninth to save his sixth save in seven attempts. Wells lost his ninth start in nine since May 25.
Mancini and Urias were the first to homer early in the Rays starter Luis Patino For a lead of 2-0
Urías’ second homer of the game and ninth of the season came off Colin Poche With Austin Hays on the base in eighth.
Patino was re-instated to the active roster on Friday. This was his first pitch since April 11th, when he faced three Oakland batters and left with a left oblique strain. In 3 1/3 innings, he gave up two runs and four hits.
Wells allowed three runs on eight hits over 5 1/3 innings and struck out six.