In Monday night MLB action, the Tampa Bay Rays will travel to beautiful Camden Yards to cool off the Baltimore Orioles. The Rays (52-43) are four games below .500 on the road and are in contention for one of the three AL Wild Card spot. On Sunday, Tampa Bay DH Yandy Diaz homered and scored twice during a 4-2 road loss against Kansas City.
Thirty-six year old righty Corey Kluber (6-5 3.73 ERA) will head to the hill for the Rays in this contest. Tampa Bay has won Kluber's last three starts and he has allowed six runs over his last 18 innings.
The Baltimore Orioles have won 26 of their first 45 home games and are suddenly just 3.5 games back in the AL Wild Card race. On Sunday, Baltimore left ten men on base and struck out ten times during a 6-0 home loss versus New York. SP Dean Kremer (3-2) gave up four runs in five plus innings and took the loss for the Orioles (47-48).
Thirty year old right-hander Austin Voth (1-1 6.38 ERA) will make his sixth start of the season for the Orioles. Through 42 plus innings, Voth has struck out 41 batters and owns a subpar 1.63 WHIP.
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- Over is 4-1 in the last 5 meetings.
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