ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. ? All day long, the Orioles were wasting their opportunities. Two leadoff doubles with runners never budging off second. For a time, it looked as if David Price would luck out.
The Orioles got seven hits off Price in six innings, and he left the scene with a one-run lead.
After Price departed, Jake McGee was within a strike of protecting that lead, but Adam Jones delivered in the sixth, and so did Chris Davis.
The runners left on were forgotten, and the Orioles opened their season with a 7-4 win over the Tampa Bay Rays before 34,078 at Tropicana Field on Tuesday.
The Orioles (1-0) trailed 3-2 after six innings, but their seventh inning was special.
Brian Roberts and Nick Markakis led off the seventh with singles against Jake McGee (0-1), and after Manny Machado struck out on three pitches, Jones was down 0-2. Jones drilled the pitch to left-center to score Roberts and Markakis to give the Orioles a 4-3 lead. Matt Wieters was walked intentionally, and Chris Davis crushed McGee?s pitch to right field, and it was 7-3.
Jason Hammel (1-0) was economical through six. He allowed Ben Zobrist?s home run with one out in the fourth, and two runs in the sixth on an RBI double by Desmond Jennings and a scoring fly by all by Zobrist.
In his six innings, Hammel allowed three runs on six hits, He walked one and struck out two.
In the first inning, Jones singled with two outs, and on the second pitch, Wieters slammed a ball over the wall in left-center field for a 2-0 lead.
All day, Price battled the Orioles. In his next at-bat, Wieters worked out a 13-pitch walk. In his only 1-2-3 inning, the fifth, he was saved by two marvelous plays at third by Evan Longoria.
In the last game these two teams played in the regular season, Longoria hit three home runs.
Twice against Price, the Orioles wasted leadoff doubles, one by J.J. Hardy in the fourth, and another by Wieters in the sixth
In the seventh, Troy Patton allowed a hit and with one out, Darren O?Day allowed an unearned run in the eighth. Jim Johnson pitched a scoreless ninth for the save.
The Orioles loaded the bases against Jamey Wright in the eighth, but left fielder Sam Fuld robbed Jones of an extra-base hit with a sliding catch.
NOTES: The Orioles play the Rays (0-1) on Wednesday at 7:10 p.m. Wei-Yin Chen starts against Jeremy Hellickson.
Source: http://www.csnbaltimore.com/blog/orioles-talk/orioles-open-bang-beat-rays-7-4
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