Ramon Urias hit a two-run go-ahead home run in the eighth inning and Jackson Holliday also homered to highlight a 15-hit attack and lead the Baltimore Orioles over the Tampa Bay Rays 7-5 on Saturday night in St. Petersburg, Fla.
It was the fourth homer in six games for Holliday. Adley Rutschman went 3-for-5 with two doubles, a run scored and an RBI, Ryan Mountcastle had three hits and three RBIs and Colton Cowser and Gunnar Henderson also had three hits apiece for Baltimore, which improved to 6-0 at Tropicana Field this season.
Burch Smith (4-0) picked up the win in relief and Seranthony Dominguez earned his second save by pitching a scoreless ninth.
Jose Caballero homered and had two hits, two runs and a stolen base for Tampa Bay, which lost for the fourth time in its last five games. Colin Poche (1-2) suffered the loss, allowing three runs on four hits in two-thirds of an inning.
Baltimore jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first on a Rutschman RBI double and a two-run single by Mountcastle against Tampa Bay opener Drew Rasmussen, who was making his second appearance and first start of the season following arm surgery last July.
Holliday made it 4-0 in the second when he led off with his fifth homer, a 408-foot drive to right-center.
Tampa Bay, no-hit for 4 1/3 innings by Baltimore starter Corbin Burnes, broke through for three runs on four hits in the fifth to cut it to 4-3. Alex Jackson and Jonny DeLuca had back-to-back RBI doubles and Josh Lowe, who broke up the no-hitter with a line single to left-center, stole second, advanced to third on a single by Caballero and scored on a throwing error by Rutschman on a Caballero steal of second.
Caballero then tied it at 4 in the seventh when he smashed his eighth homer to left off Smith.
Baltimore regained the lead with three runs off Poche in the eighth. Holliday led off with a walk and Urias followed with his sixth home run, a 418-foot drive to left-center. Mountcastle added an RBI single on a comebacker off Poche’s left leg, driving in Cowser, who had singled.
Tampa Bay cut it to 7-5 in the bottom of the eighth when pinch hitter Jose Siri walked with the bases loaded off reliever Cionel Perez. But Perez rebounded to get out of the jam by getting Caballero to fly out to left to end the threat.
–Field Level Media
