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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) -- Tampa Bay kept pecking, never really
getting to Pat Rapp.
B.J. Surhoff hit a three-run homer and Rapp scattered 11 hits
while allowing only one run in six-plus innings to beat the Devil
Rays 5-1 Monday.
"I got two outs a bunch of times and couldn't put them away,"
said Rapp, who hadn't won since beating the Chicago White Sox on
April 25 -- a stretch that included two losses and three straight no
decisions.
"I gave up a base hit, then another base hit and then I'd have
to battle with two guys on," added the right-hander, who allowed
at least one hit in every inning. "I was able to get out of it
with guys on today."
Surhoff's sixth homer finished a four-run second off Steve
Trachsel (3-5), and Mike Bordick homered in the eighth and
Baltimore won for the fifth time in six games. Jeff Conine had a
RBI single in the second, but twice hit into double plays with the
bases loaded.
A day after pounding out a franchise-record 20 hits in a 14-4
victory over the Seattle, the Devil Rays finished with 13 hits off
Orioles pitching. But they were just 1-for-11 with runners in
scoring position, stranding 11.
"We didn't hit with men on base. That's basically the game,"
manager Larry Rothschild said. "Thirteen hits with only one run.
That says you're not hitting with men on. And, that was the case."
Trachsel, pitching on two days' rest after lasting just a third
of an inning in a loss to Oakland on Friday night, got off to
another shaky start. Conine's RBI single gave Baltimore a 1-0 lead,
and Surhoff followed with his sixth homer before the Tampa Bay
starter settled down.
Trachsel worked out of a jam in the third after Delino DeShields
singled and Albert Belle doubled with one out. Will Clark was given
an intentional walk to load the bases, but the Devil Rays escaped
when Conine hit a pop foul up the right field line and first
baseman Fred McGriff made the catch, and then threw to the plate to
catch DeShields, who was trying to score from third.
Conine grounded into a double play with the bases loaded in the
eighth.
"We had a couple of golden chances to blow the game open ...
and we didn't get it done," Orioles manager Mike Hargrove said.
"We pitched well enough to pitch past those mistakes."
McGriff, who's two homers shy of 400 and stuck in a 5-for-33
slump, struck out with two runners on in the first, grounded out in
the same situation in the third and was retired on a soft liner to
first with two runners on in the seventh.
"We just couldn't get key hits. Bottom line," McGriff said.
"You're hoping the pitcher keeps you in the game and some way
you're able to scratch across some runs."
Tampa Bay had nine hits -- all singles -- off Rapp before Russ
Johnson doubled leading off the seventh. Felix Martinez reached on
an infield single, and Rapp lost his shutout when Johnson scored on
Randy Winn's grounder to DeShields, who was charged with an error
when he failed to get a force out at second.
Mike Trombley replaced Rapp and got the first two outs in the
seventh. Buddy Groom came on to get McGriff to line to Will Clark
to get out of the jam. Bordick restored the Orioles' four-run lead
when he hit Trachsel's first pitch in the eighth into the
left-field stands.
Game
notes
It was Turn Back The Clock Day at Tropicana Field, with the
Orioles wearing replicas of uniforms from their 1970 World Series
championship season. The Devil Rays wore uniforms of the 1966 minor
league St. Petersburg Saints ... Plate umpire Tim Timmons was
brought in as a replacement for Ed Rapuano, forced to leave Sunday
night's game between the Yankees and Red Sox when he was struck on
the right knee by a foul ball ... Surhoff was 7-for-55 (.127)
before his homer ... The jerseys the teams wore will be auctioned
for charity. Bidding started over the weekend and Cal Ripken Jr.'s
jersey already was at $1,276.
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