Diaz's bat, Siri's glove help Rays beat Orioles 7-1
By IAN NICHOLAS QUILLEN
Posted 9/7/24
Yandy Diaz homered among his three hits and drove in two runs, Jose Siri denied Gunnar Henderson a potential go-ahead home run with a leaping grab and the Tampa Bay Rays beat Baltimore 7-1, knocking …
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Diaz's bat, Siri's glove help Rays beat Orioles 7-1
Tampa Bay Rays' Taylor Walls, right, celebrates his home run with Yandy Diaz (2) during the third inning of a baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)
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By IAN NICHOLAS QUILLEN
BALTIMORE (AP) — Yandy Diaz homered among his three hits and drove in two runs, Jose Siri denied Gunnar Henderson a potential go-ahead home run with a leaping grab and the Tampa Bay Rays beat Baltimore 7-1 on Saturday, knocking the Orioles from the AL East lead.
Taylor Walls also homered and had two RBIs as the Rays evened the series and dropped the Orioles a half-game behind the New York Yankees, who beat the Chicago Cubs earlier in the day.
Jonny DeLuca also had three hits and Logan Driscoll had an RBI single in the seventh inning.
Ryan Pepiot (8-6) allowed only one run over 5 1/3 innings despite allowing nine baserunners.
Zach Eflin (10-8) allowed three runs over 5 2/3 innings in his second start against his former team since the Rays dealt him to the Orioles in late July. Cedirc Mullins' 15th home run closed the deficit to 3-1 in the sixth before the Rays added on late.
Diaz's 14th homer was also his fifth to lead off a game, and Walls added his solo shot in the third to double the lead.
Pepiot had already escaped one-out jams in the second and third before the Orioles nearly mounted a two-out rally in the fourth.
After Emmanuel Rivera and James McCann singled, Henderson drove Pepiot's ninth pitch of the at-bat toward the seats in front of the scoreboard in right-center. Siri looked back to the fence and up at Henderson's drive, scaled the wall and met the ball with his outstretched glove, corralling it in the webbing. After his descent, he pounded his chest in celebration as Henderson slammed his helmet to the turf.
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Rays: 2B Brandon Lowe was held out for a second consecutive day with a swollen middle finger on his right hand but said the injury is improved. “We’re doing five, six, seven treatments a day to try to make sure we’re getting it back to normal,” Lowe said. ... Driscoll exited the game with a left thigh bruise following his single, two innings after the catcher hit a railing and made a tumbling catch into the Rays dugout.
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