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Nick Martinez allows 1 hit in 6 innings as Rays avert sweep with win over Orioles
Martinez retired 18 of 19 batters as Tampa Bay ended a three-game skid and avoided a sweep with timely sixth-inning RBI singles.
On Sunday, pitcher Nick Martinez threw six innings of one-hit ball as the Tampa Bay Rays defeated the Baltimore Orioles 3-1, averting a three-game sweep.
Rebounding from three consecutive losses and seven defeats in nine games, the AL East-leading Rays relied on Martinez, who retired 18 of 19 batters faced.
Junior Caminero and Chandler Simpson delivered RBI singles in the sixth inning to provide the winning margin, despite Colton Cowser's third-inning double down the right-field line.
Relievers Cam Booser, Kevin Kelly, and Bryan Baker secured the final three innings, with Baker earning his 37th save despite a leadoff homer by Cowser.
Baltimore finished with three hits and failed to draw a walk for the first time in 122 games, underscoring the Rays' pitching dominance.
BALTIMORE.- Nick Martinez released six single-hit ball innings, Dominican Junior Caminero and Chandler Simpson connected simple boosters in the decisive sixth inning and Tampa Bay Rays beat Baltimore Orioles on Sunday 3-1 to avoid a three-game sweep. Rays, Division leaders [...] Rays' entry imposes 3-1 on Baltimore Orioles aparece primero en PSN Noticias.