Terrence Brooks Jersey . -- Charles-David Beaudoin and Jerome Verrier scored in the third
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"Maybe, we were too comfortable," he told TSN Hockey Insider Bob
McKenzie. "It looked to me that - the year before we had a lot of
injuries and a number of the key guys didnt play very much - we came to
camp with a full group, maybe we thought we were going to be better than
we were going to be and, certainly, we didnt compete at the same
level.BALTIMORE -- The Tampa Bay Rays usually work their way around the
bases one at a time, so they took great delight in putting on a
power-hitting display against a team known for the long ball.
Desmond Jennings opened the game with the first of Tampa Bays three home
runs off Wei-Yin Chen, and the Rays got an impressive pitching
performance from former Oriole Erik Bedard in a 5-4 victory over
Baltimore on Saturday.
Tampa Bay built a five-run lead in the fourth inning, then held off a
late comeback bid to improve to 3-8 against the Orioles this season.
Logan Forsythe and rookie Kevin Kiermaier each hit a two-run shot
against Chen (7-3), who lasted only 3 1-3 innings in the shortest outing
of his three-year career. Of the 15 home runs Chen has yielded this
season, five have come against the light-hitting Rays.
Tampa Bay started the day tied for 25th in the majors with 59 home runs
and hit only two its previous nine games. Half the Rays 10 hits were for
extra bases, including a triple by Ben Zobrist and a double by
Ryan Hanigan.
"Thats more like what we expect on a consistent basis, to play that
game," manager Joe Maddon said. "Against this team here, fangs out late
in the game, its nice to beat them that way."
Nick Markakis and Manny Machado homered for the Orioles, who have a
major league-leading 40 long balls in June. But it wasnt enough to beat
the last-place Rays, who can win the four-game series with a victory
Sunday.
Bedard (4-5) struck out seven in a season-high seven-plus innings. The
35-year-old lefty gave up three runs and five hits against the team he
began his career with in 2002.
He walked none, and 68 of his 87 pitches were strikes.
"Thats probably the best strike-ball ratio Ive ever thrown in my life,"
Bedard said. "The biggest thing was the first-pitch strikes and after
that, I continued to throw strikes. I mixed in fastball, changeup,
curveball and I came out on top."
He was pulled after giving up a two-run homer to Machado in the eighth.
Adam Jones added an RBI single off Jake McGee, who subsequently retired
Nelson Cruz with two outs and runnners on the corners. Aldrick Robinson Ravens Jersey. McGee returned in the ninth to earn his third save -- the second in
two days.
Chen gave up a season-high five runs, seven hits and a pair of walks.
The Taiwanese left-hander was 4-0 in nine starts since May 3 and 1-0
with a 2.77 ERA in two games against Tampa Bay.
"For every game, you dont want to give up any home runs," Chen said
through a translator. "Lately, Ive been leaving more pitches up in the
zone. Maybe the opponent hitters are studying me more than they used to,
so if I didnt make the adjustment necessary, the results are going to
look bad. So Im going to look at that."
On Chens fourth pitch, a 91 mph fastball, Jennings hit his seventh
career leadoff homer to put the Rays ahead for good. Prior to the
at-bat, Jennings was 4 for 23 (.174) against Chen.
In the second, Sean Rodriguez singled and Forsythe followed with his
first home run in 142 at-bats this season. Forsythe went 3 for 3 with a
walk and scored twice.
Tampa Bay made it 5-0 in the fourth when Forsythe singled and Kiermaier
drove a 1-2 pitch into the right-field bleachers. It was the fifth home
run of the season for Kiermaier and the first by a left-hander against
Chen.
"I actually like the way weve been swinging the bats," Kiermaier said.
"It was one of those things today -- Desmond hit the leadoff home run
then Logan came up clutch and hit that other one."
Bedard retired 10 straight batters before Markakis homered on a 1-2
pitch in the sixth.
NOTES: Miguel Gonzalez will start for Baltimore in the series finale
against RHP Alex Cobb, who has held the Orioles to a .176 batting
average throughout his career. ... Tampa Bay SS Yunel Escobar missed his
fourth straight game with a sore shoulder. ... Orioles RHP Dylan Bundy,
returning from elbow surgery, will make his fourth rehab start
Thursday, this time with Class-A Frederick. ... Rays RHP
Jeremy Hellickson, trying to come back from elbow surgery, ended his
rehab start with Triple-A Durham on Friday night after three innings,
complaining of discomfort. Maddon suggested Hellickson might return to
Florida for an examination.
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