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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.
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Nick Martinez allows 1 hit in 6 innings as Rays avert sweep with win over Orioles

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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.

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The Washington Post broke the news in Washington, United States on Sunday, August 23, 2026.
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