 entered with two outs in the second. He wound up allowing one run and three hits while striking out seven over 6 1/3 innings.The left-hander held Baltimore hitless until Danny Valencia tripled to start the fifth. Valencia was left stranded when Banda struck out Chris Davis and Joey Rickard, and got a grounder from Andrew SusacStanek got the start and retired all five batters he faced, including strikeouts of Adam Jones, Manny Machado and Jonathan Schoop.Roe worked a perfect ninth for the Rays.Sergio Romo will make his second start in three days and fourth in eight days in Sunday's series finale when the Rays completes a stretch of three consecutive days of having relievers starting games. The longtime reliever took the loss in Friday night's 2-0 loss to the Orioles, allowing one run while getting two outs.Tampa Bay jumped ahead early, taking a 5-0 lead after two innings.Joey Wendle had an RBI triple and scored on Wilson Ramos' double in the first. After Rob Refsnyder hit a run-scoring single, C. J. Cron made it 5-0 in the second with a two-run double off Andrew Cashner.Cashner (2-6), who allowed five runs and 11 hits in five-plus innings, left with the bases loaded and no outs in the sixth and was replaced by Tanner Scott, who struck out three batters in a row.The Orioles got their run in the seventh when Machado doubled and scored on Davis' opposite-field single to left.TRAINER'S ROOMOrioles: OF Mark Trumbo (sore knee) is feeling better and could avoid going on the disabled list.Rays: OF Carlos Gomez (right groin strain) was reinstated from the 10-day DL.GETTING BETTERInjured Orioles closer Zach Britton (right Achilles' tendon surgery) is scheduled to start a rehab assignment Wednesday with Triple-A Norfolk. Reliever Darren O'Day (hyperextended right elbow) will resume throwing Tuesday.CLOSER BY COMMITTEERays manager Kevin Cash is not ready to appoint a replacement for closer Alex Colome, who was traded with OF Denard Span to Seattle on Friday. ''I think it's going to be pretty fluid,'' Cash said. Options include Roe, Romo, and Jose Alvarado.UP NEXTBaltimore RHP Kevin Gausman (3-3) goes against Romo (1-1) on Sunday.)
Scuffling Rays just what the Orioles ordered 1h ago• 2 min read ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- The Tampa Bay Rays have dropped four of five games, including a 2-0 loss to the last-place Baltimore Orioles on Friday night, and traded away two key players to the Seattle Mariners before Friday's game.Tampa Bay (23-26) sent All-Star closer Alex Colome and outfielder Denard Span -- who was tied for the team lead in RBIs -- along with $4.75 million in cash, with only two minor-league pitchers in return."Hopefully we can move past that quickly and try to win a game tomorrow," Rays manager Kevin Cash said after Friday's loss, acknowledging that it's "difficult" to lose players who were central in his clubhouse. "It does have an impact. You hope guys can bounce back, but you're talking about guys you spent a lot of time with." Baltimore (17-34) opened the series with momentum, getting 6 2/3 innings of shutout baseball from David Hess, making just his third big-league start. They'll hope to build on that Saturday with Andrew Cashner (2-5, 4.72 ERA), who is pitching for his fourth team in less than two years.Cashner is coming off a rare win, giving up eight hits in five innings but holding the White Sox to two earned runs on Monday for just his second win of the season. He has a limited history against the Rays -- a single appearance, last year when he was with Texas, getting the win and leaving with a 4.50 ERA.The Rays, trying to push through major injuries to their starting rotation, will throw another bullpen day, with Ryne Stanek (0-0, 5.40 ERA) getting his first career start as Tampa Bay dabbles with relievers as short-inning starters.Stanek has thrown as many as 40 pitches in games this season, but his last appearance was against a single batter. For his career against Baltimore, he has a 2.25 ERA in four appearances, all in relief. The Rays will lean hard on their bullpen, as they did in getting a solid seven innings from Ryan Yarbrough in Friday's loss.The Rays haven't named a successor to Colome as closer -- newly acquired reliever Wilmer Font will join the bullpen, though in a lower-leverage role. Carlos Gomez will come off the disabled list to displace Span, a Tampa native who was well-liked in his two months with his hometown team.Baltimore got a key home run Friday night from Jonathan Schoop, who now has three home runs against the Rays, and two against everyone else in the league. Friday's win was just their second shutout of the season -- they did so against Detroit on April 27 -- and the first time all year they've won when only scoring two runs.The Orioles are 4-5 on their current 11-game road trip, and 4-3 on the season against the Rays, with the chance to continue that against patchwork bullpen pitching the rest of the weekend. Cashner has a tough act to follow -- Hess' gem on Friday was just the fourth time all season an Orioles pitcher lasted at least six innings while allowing no earned runs and four or fewer hits.
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