Major League Baseball
Baltimore 6, Tampa Bay 3
When: 3:05 PM ET, Saturday, May 12, 2018
Where: Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Baltimore, Maryland
Temperature: 79°
Umpires: Home - Gerry Davis, 1B - Shane Livensparger, 2B - Mark Carlson, 3B - Brian Knight
Attendance:
Jonathan Schoop homered twice to help starter David Hess win in his major league debut as the Baltimore Orioles defeated the Tampa Bay Rays 6-3 in the first game of a doubleheader on Saturday at Oriole Park.

The Orioles now have won a season-best four straight games, and they hit three homers in this contest.

Tampa Bay has dropped five in a row.

Hess was the 26th man on the Orioles' roster (which is allowed for doubleheaders), and after starting poorly, rebounded strongly. The right-hander gave up three runs on four hits in the first inning and then retired 18 of the final 20 batters he faced.

Overall, Hess (1-0) allowed three runs on six hits in six innings. He struck out three without a walk and threw just 78 pitches.

Tanner Scott (1 1/3 innings) and Mychal Givens (1 2/3 innings) took care of the final three innings. Givens earned his first career save.

Rays starter Chris Archer (2-3) gave up all six runs Baltimore scored in seven innings. He allowed seven hits and couldn't hold the early 3-0 lead.

Matt Duffy and the Rays gave Hess a rude welcome to the big leagues in the first. After the Rays got a pair of one-out singles, Duffy then crushed the first pitch from Hess and sent it into the Oriole bullpen in left-center for the 3-0 lead.

But the Orioles scored three in the second and then went ahead for good with two more in the third.

Schoop hit a solo homer off Archer in the second, and Chance Sisco added an RBI double. Sisco later stole home on the back end of a double-steal, tying the game at 3-3.

Manny Machado and Schoop then hit back-to-back solo homers in the third to give the Orioles a 5-3 lead. Machado now has four homers in his last three games.

The Orioles added one more when Mark Trumbo scored on an Archer wild pitch in the sixth.

--Field Level Media

Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Tampa Bay   Baltimore
Chris Archer Player David Hess
Loss W/L Win
7.0 IP 6.0
4 Strikeouts 3
7 Hits 6
7.71 ERA 4.50
Hitting
Tampa Bay   Baltimore
Joey Wendle Player Jonathan Schoop
3 Hits 2
0 RBI 2
0 HR 2
3 TB 8
1.000 Avg .500
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Tampa Bay 8 1 11 .229 10 5 3 0 1 0
Baltimore 7 3 18 .226 9 5 4 3 2 0