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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) -- Wildness cost the Baltimore Orioles.
Miguel Cairo drew a four-pitch bases-loaded walk off Mike
Trombley in the bottom of the 10th inning as the Tampa Bay Devil
Rays beat the Baltimore Orioles 5-4 Saturday.
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"I just didn't do it," Trombley said. "At least make him hit
it. All I did was lose the game and make our manager look bad."
It was the second straight game the teams needed extra innings.
The Orioles beat the Devil Rays 10-9 in 15 innings, a game that
ended at 12:33 Saturday morning.
"I'll play forever if we win ... I really don't care," Tampa
Bay manager Larry Rothschild said. "But just to get us off the
field ... I think both teams are pretty beat right now."
Greg Vaughn started the 10th with a single off Trombley
(4-3). Vaughn stole second and went to third on Fred McGriff's
grounder. The Orioles opted to walk Jose Canseco and Jose Guillen
to load the bases with one out. Cairo then walked to force in
Vaughn with the winning run.
"That's all you can do," said Orioles manager Mike Hargrove of
the intentional walks. "That's one of those situations where
you're between a rock and a hard place. The best option is loading
the bases, which sets up a force at home plate. You've got to worry
about the runner on third base."
Doug Creek and Roberto Hernandez threw five hitless innings out
of the bullpen. Creek walked one in three innings, while Hernandez
(3-3) worked two perfect innings.
"I just feel sorry for him (Trombley), that he had to go
through that," Hernandez said. "I'm just glad we got it done in
10 instead of 15."
The Tampa Bay bullpen allowed just one earned run in its past 15
2/3 innings.
Baltimore starter Sidney Ponson went nine innings, striking out
a career-high 10. He gave up four runs on eight hits.
"I didn't feel good at the start," Ponson said. "I struggled
through the third, fourth and fifth innings and they scored some
runs off me. I just kept going out there."
Brady Anderson gave the Orioles a 4-3 lead with a fifth-inning
two-run homer. His 14th homer came on the 14th pitch of the at-bat.
Vaughn tied it in the bottom of the fifth with his 19th homer.
It was the first time he has homers in consecutive games since April 28-29.
"We've got to go out there and force the issue a little bit,
and maybe they'll make some mistakes," Vaughn said.
Tanyon Sturtze, making his first start for the Devil Rays, gave
up four runs and six hits in five innings. The right-hander,
acquired from the Chicago White Sox on May 31, had been working out
of the bullpen.
The Orioles scored single runs in the first two innings to take
a 2-0 lead. Delino Deshields scored when third baseman Aubrey Huff
dropped Alert Belle's first-inning pop fly. Brook Fordyce had an
RBI double in the second.
The Devil Rays drew even on Guillen's run-scoring grounder in
the second and McGriff's third-inning sacrifice fly. The RBI was
McGriff's first since July 28.
Huff's run-scoring double put the Devil Rays up 3-2 in the
fourth. Tampa Bay had the lead despite going 0-for-8 with runners
in scoring position in the first four innings.
Game notes
Neither team took batting practice before Saturday's 4:15
p.m. start. ... Tampa Bay wasted little time extending its club
record for grounding into double plays to 12 straight games when
Russ Johnson -- who was batting second -- hit into a 6-4-3 DP in the
first. ... McGriff, who needs one homer to record his 13th season
of 20 or more, has gone 63 at-bats without one. ... Hall of Fame
pitcher Robin Roberts threw out the ceremonial first pitch. ...
Sturtze threw 44 of his 114 pitches in the fifth inning.
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