{"id":378837,"date":"2026-08-23T04:28:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T04:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/378837\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T04:28:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T04:28:48","slug":"pinch-double-lifts-orioles-past-rays-3-2-tampa-bay-loses-7th-of-last-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/378837\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinch double lifts Orioles past Rays 3-2; Tampa Bay loses 7th of last 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BALTIMORE \u2014 Dylan Beavers led off the 10th inning with a pinch double to right-center to score automatic runner Leody Taveras from second and give the Baltimore Orioles a 3-2 victory over the AL East-leading Tampa Bay Rays on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel Basallo tied it at 2 for Baltimore in the eighth with a two-run pinch homer off Kevin Kelly. Bryan Baker (1-2) gave up Beavers\u2019 double.<\/p>\n<p>Coby Mayo had two doubles for the Orioles and Pete Alonso had two hits to extend his career-high hitting streak to 14 games. Rico Garcia (5-1) pitched an inning for the victory.<\/p>\n<p>Liam Hicks homered for Tampa Bay, and Chandler Simpson singled to extend his hitting streak to 13 games. The Rays have lost three straight and seven of nine. They remain three games ahead of the Yankees.<\/p>\n<p>Hicks led off the second and lined a homer over the scoreboard in right to make it 1-0.<\/p>\n<p>With a runner on first and no outs in the sixth, Yandy D\u00edaz singled to right but Tyler O\u2019Neill threw out Taylor Walls attempting to go first to third. Simpson and Junior Caminero followed with singles and the Rays led 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson Holliday singled leading off the eighth and, with one out, Basallo hit his first career pinch homer, a shot to center.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Neill made a diving catch on Richie Palacios\u2019s blooper in the ninth to save a run.<\/p>\n<p>Baltimore starter Brandon Young allowed two runs on six hits over 5.2 innings.<\/p>\n<p>In his second start since returning from the 15-day Injured List, Tampa Bay\u2019s Shane McClanahan tossed five shutout innings and gave up four hits.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Rays RHP Nick Martinez (12-4, 3.05 ERA) was set to oppose Orioles RHP Shane Baz (4-13, 4.02) in the series finale Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Tampa Bay Rays' Liam Hicks watches his home run off Baltimore Orioles pitcher Brandon Young during the second inning of baseball game in Baltimore, Saturday, Aug. 22, 2026. (AP Photo\/Terrance Williams)\" width=\"3903\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/TOS-Z-RAYS-08221.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"15273991\" \/>Tampa Bay Rays&#8217; Liam Hicks watches his home run off Baltimore Orioles pitcher Brandon Young during the second inning Saturday in Baltimore. The Orioles went on to win 3-2 in 10 innings. (Terrance Williams\/AP)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BALTIMORE \u2014 Dylan Beavers led off the 10th inning with a pinch double to right-center to score automatic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3817,76046,110,135,3815,137,136],"class_list":["post-378837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-mlb","tag-social-sports","tag-sports","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378837","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=378837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}