Beltway Beatdown, Tarps Off: Rays 16, Orioles 6
To start off the evening, we had a patented dome field advantage at One Trop Drive. There was a thunderstorm that passed directly over Tropicana Field for about the first hour of tonight’s contest, and had it been 2025 we might not have got the ballgame in. Tampa Bay placed seven right-handed hitters in tonight’s lineup against southpaw Trevor Rogers, and boy did it pay off.
Yandy Diaz had quite the night to say the least, finishing with four hits including two doubles, four runs, and four RBI on the night, and just missed a leadoff home run to start tonight’s ballgame. Junior Caminero delivered the proverbial dagger with a three run homer to right field, right after a Gunnar Henderson miscue led to Baltimore only getting one out instead of two in the fifth inning. Caminero would also score two more times and walk twice tonight.
Junior Caminero’s 13th HR of the season is a 105. 8 MPH EV, 380 FT opposite field shot. He already had a 116.
8 MPH EV earlier in the game and is now posting a 138 wRC+ over his 200 PAs. pic. twitter.
com/Pb3sPVVLoO — Running From The OPS (@OPS_BASEBALL) May 19, 2026 Are you sensing the pattern here? The righties swung it, and swung it well. The Flappy Boys went 9/20 with runners in scoring position, and had 15 runs by the sixth inning.