Dylan Bundy allows three homers as O's fall to Rays

In a span of just 11 batters today, Orioles right-hander Dylan Bundy allowed as many homers as he had given up in his previous 22 games and 38 innings this year.

Bundy allowed three homers this afternoon in his first major league start as the Rays beat the Orioles 5-2 at Tropicana Field. The Orioles were looking for their first three-game sweep there since May 6-8, 2014, but came up a win short.

The Orioles gave Bundy a 1-0 lead in the top of the first. Adam Jones singled, went to third on a Jonathan Schoop double and scored on Manny Machado's sac fly.

But with two outs in the last of the first, Evan Longoria turned around a 97 mph fastball and tied it 1-1 on his 20th homer. Bundy allowed another two-out homer in the second. Oswaldo Arcia's two-run shot to left on a 3-2 pitch made it a 3-1 Rays lead. Arcia ended an 0-for-21 slump with his opposite field homer. When Brad Miller led off the third with a solo shot, his 15th, Tampa Bay led 4-1. Miller's homer came on an 0-2 fastball.

Bundy went a career-high 3 1/3 innings, allowing five hits and four runs with three walks and four strikeouts. He threw 70 pitches, 41 for strikes and took the loss to fall to 2-2 with an ERA of 3.70. O's pitchers entered today having not allowed a homer their past 58 innings.

Pedro Alvarez hit a solo homer to left off Rays starter Jake Odorizzi in the sixth to cut the O's deficit to 4-2. Alvarez hit No. 11 on a 93 mph fastball.

But Longoria hit his second homer of the day to lead off the Tampa Bay eighth for a 5-2 lead. He hit a blast to center off Odrisamer Despaigne for his 21st homer of the year and 17th career multi-homer game. In the first 11 games this year between the teams, Longoria went 7-for-43 (.163) with a homer and two RBIs.

Odorizzi allowed two runs over six innings to get the win and snap Tampa Bay's eight-game losing streak and seven-game losing streak to the Orioles. He is 4-5 with an ERA of 4.39.

The Orioles took two of three this weekend even though they scored just eight runs and produced only 22 hits in the series. They had some chances early on and went 0-for-7 with runners in scoring position. The O's are just 7-for-64 (.109) with RISP the past eight games.

The Orioles fall to 53-37 on the season, 20-23 on the road, 24-14 versus the American League East and 9-3 against Tampa Bay. They play at Yankee Stadium on Monday night with Kevin Gausman (1-6, 4.15 ERA) facing New York right-hander Ivan Nova (6-5, 5.18 ERA) to start a four-game series.