{"id":378707,"date":"2026-08-22T23:36:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T23:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/378707\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T23:36:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T23:36:19","slug":"baltimore-orioles-and-tampa-bay-rays-meet-in-game-2-of-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/378707\/","title":{"rendered":"Baltimore Orioles and Tampa Bay Rays meet in game 2 of series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baltimore has a 62-67 record overall and a 33-33 record in home games. The Orioles have hit 157 total home runs to rank fourth in the AL.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay Rays (76-52, first in the AL East) vs. Baltimore Orioles (62-67, fifth in the AL East)<\/p>\n<p>Baltimore; Saturday, 7:05 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p>PITCHING PROBABLES: Rays: Shane McClanahan (9-6, 3.25 ERA, 1.12 WHIP, 94 strikeouts); Orioles: Brandon Young (9-3, 3.52 ERA, 1.35 WHIP, 96 strikeouts)<\/p>\n<p>LINE: Rays -131, Orioles +110; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n<p>BOTTOM LINE: The Baltimore Orioles take a 1-0 advantage into the next game of the series against the Tampa Bay Rays.<\/p>\n<p>Baltimore has a 62-67 record overall and a 33-33 record in home games. The Orioles have hit 157 total home runs to rank fourth in the AL.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay is 33-29 in road games and 76-52 overall. The Rays have the top team on-base percentage in the AL at .330.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s game is the 12th time these teams square off this season. The Orioles are ahead 7-4 in the season series.<\/p>\n<p>TOP PERFORMERS: Pete Alonso has 23 doubles and 30 home runs for the Orioles. Gunnar Henderson is 13 for 37 with four doubles and two home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>Junior Caminero has 35 home runs, 66 walks and 81 RBIs while hitting .276 for the Rays. Chandler Simpson is 15 for 43 with a double and four RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>LAST 10 GAMES: Orioles: 5-5, .246 batting average, 4.04 ERA, outscored opponents by three runs<\/p>\n<p>Rays: 4-6, .282 batting average, 5.90 ERA, outscored by seven runs<\/p>\n<p>INJURIES: Orioles: Blaze Alexander: 10-Day IL (hand), Ryan Mountcastle: 60-Day IL (foot), Colin Selby: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Zach Eflin: 60-Day IL (elbow), Keegan Akin: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ryan Helsley: 60-Day IL (elbow), Felix Bautista: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jordan Westburg: 60-Day IL (ucl)<\/p>\n<p>Rays: Ben Williamson: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Jon Heasley: 60-Day IL (elbow), Griffin Jax: 15-Day IL (elbow), Victor Mesa Jr.: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Cole Sulser: 15-Day IL (back), Manuel Rodriguez: 60-Day IL (elbow), Edwin Uceta: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Gavin Lux: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jake Fraley: 60-Day IL (groin), Ryan Pepiot: 60-Day IL (hip)<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright<br \/>\n                        \u00a9\u00a02026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, written or redistributed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Baltimore has a 62-67 record overall and a 33-33 record in home games. The Orioles have hit 157&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-378707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}