Arozarena's two home runs help Rays rally past Orioles, 9-7

BALTIMORE (AP) — Randy Arozarena hit two home runs, stole another with his glove and knocked in four runs, Ji-Man Choi drove in the go-ahead run in the eighth inning, and the Tampa Bay Rays rallied from a five-run deficit to beat the Baltimore Orioles 9-7 Wednesday night.

Mike Brosseau also homered for Tampa Bay, which has won a season-high six consecutive games. At 25-19, the Rays are six games above .500 for the first time this year.

Trey Mancini hit two home runs as part of a four-hit night and tied a career high with five RBIs for Baltimore, which has dropped nine of 11 and fell to a majors-worst 6-17 at home.

Ryan Thompson (3-2) pitched a scoreless seventh for Tampa Bay. Pete Fairbanks gave up a run in the ninth, but stranded two men to earn his first save since 2019.

The Rays took the lead for the first time in eighth. After a pair of walks, Choi’s two-out single made it 7-6. Paul Fry (0-1) allowed another run to score on a wild pitch, then surrendered Arozarena’s RBI double.

That capped an already eventful night for Arozarena, who hit a solo shot in the fifth off Baltimore starter John Means and added a two-run blast off Adam Plutko in the seventh to tie it at 6.

Arozarena also made a leaping grab at the left field wall to rob Pat Valaika of a home run in the sixth.

Mancini tormented off Tampa Bay’s Ryan Yarbrough throughout the starter’s outing. Mancini hit solo shots in the first and fifth, and smacked a three-run double in the second to make it 5-0. It was the eighth career multi-homer game for Mancini and his first since missing all of last season for colon cancer treatment.

Freddy Galvis added a homer — the 100th of his career — in the second against Yarbrough, who allowed six runs (three earned) in six innings.

Means saw his 19-inning scoreless streak...

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