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BALTIMORE -- Evan Longoria continues to excel in a season that long ago went awry for the Tampa Bay Rays.Longoria homered, tripled and scored three runs to help the Rays beat Baltimore 5-2 Saturday night, blunting the Orioles playoff push.Though the Rays are destined to finish in the AL East cellar, Longoria is putting up impressive numbers down the stretch. Hes homered in three straight games and four of the last six.Hes now at 35 homers, passing Jose Canseco for the single-season franchise record for a right-handed batter.Id love to keep going, Longoria said. Weve got plenty of games left, and Im seeing the ball pretty well right now. Just trying to stay where Im at mentally and physically.Baltimore ace Chris Tillman (16-6) had a one-hitter and a 2-1 lead after five innings, but he failed to get out of the sixth.Longoria led off the inning by hitting a long fly ball outside the left-field foul pole. He sent the next pitch over the center-field wall -- his eighth career homer off Tillman in 63 at-bats.It was pretty impressive, Rays manager Kevin Cash said. You dont see many guys go homer foul and then straighten it out a little more.Brad Miller followed with an infield hit and scored on a two-out double by Richie Shaffer.The Rays added two unearned runs in the eighth when Mikie Mahtook hit a bases-loaded single after an error by first baseman Chris Davis.Tampa Bay has won two of three in the series that ends Sunday.You say what you want about the Rays and the standings, but theyve got a formidable major league team over there, Orioles center fielder Adam Jones said. Theyre not just laying down, dying, quitting and just letting us win.Matt Andriese (8-7) allowed two runs in 5 1/3 innings to win his second straight start after losing seven decisions in a row.He had nasty stuff going. You could tell from the side, a lot of stuff was bottoming out, Cash said. The slider and the changeup kept those guys off balance.Alex Colome worked the ninth for his 34th save in 36 chances.The Orioles played a second straight game without major league home run leader Mark Trumbo, who has back spasms.Baltimore got a first-inning run when Jones doubled and scored on a fly ball by Manny Machado.A sacrifice fly by Hyun Soo Kim made it 2-0 in the third. Tampa Bay broke through in the fourth when Longoria tripled -- the Rays first hit -- and scored on a grounder by Miller.TRAINERS ROOMRays: 1B Nick Franklin missed a second straight game with a hamstring strain and will likely be re-examined Monday after the team travels home.Orioles: Trumbo could return Sunday. Hes better, improved, close, manager Buck Showalter said. RHP Darren ODay (rotator cuff strain) should come off the disabled list on Sunday or Monday, Showalter said.UP NEXTRays: Jake Odorizzi (9-6, 3.81 ERA) pitches the series finale for the Rays. Hes 6-1 since the All-Star break and has 15 starts overall in which he received no decision.Orioles: Wade Miley (8-13, 5.80) starts for Baltimore. Hes 1-5 with an 8.41 ERA in eight starts since coming to the Orioles just before the non-waiver trade deadline. Jace Sternberger Jersey . The Browns coaching search remains incomplete. Jace Sternberger Packers Jersey .S. hockey team after paying his dues as an NHL general manager for more than three decades and giving up a lot of his free time to help USA Hockey. http://www.shoptheofficialpackers.com/Elite-Ray-Nitschke-Packers-Jersey/ . -- Whether Jeremy Hill deserves a prominent role in LSUs offence this early in the season is a matter for debate. Dexter Williams Womens Jersey . The Vancouver coach and an announced sellout crowd of 18,910 watched in dismay as the Canucks lost 7-4 to the New York Islanders on Monday night by squandering a 3-0 lead in the third period. Ray Nitschke Youth Jersey . -- If this was Aaron Gordons final home game at Arizona, and it almost certainly was, then he went out in style. DENVER -- Jon Gray thought a complete-game performance was reason enough to celebrate. Little did he know hed also etched his name into the Colorado Rockies record book.Gray struck out a franchise-record 16 and pitched a four-hitter to lead the Rockies to an 8-0 victory over the San Diego Padres on Saturday night.Gray (10-8) threw 113 pitches in surpassing Darryl Kiles 14-strikeout performance on Aug. 20, 1998. He was told in a postgame interview of the feat.I didnt know that, Gray said. I just thought I threw a complete game. I was really pumped about it.Tom Murphy homered twice and had five RBI. Nolan Arenado added his NL-leading 38th home run.Colorado has won the first two games in the three-game series, which included an 8-7 walk-off win on Friday night.Gray was certainly the star in this latest victory.You cant overshadow that, Murphy said. I think you could have had six home runs tonight and it wouldve been overshadowed.Edwin Jackson (4-6) gave up 10 hits and eight runs in 4? innings. The Padres did not put a runner in scoring position.Gray struck out four batters in the second inning, including a strikeout on a passed ball. He tied Bruce Ruffin (July 25, 1996) as the only other Colorado pitcher to accomplish the feat.The hard-throwing 24-year-old then fanned two more in the third for his sixth strikeout in a row, the franchises most in a single game. He had 14 Ks after seven and tacked on two more in the ninth for the team record.He was really tough to hit tonight, San Diego first baseman Wil Myers said. Great slider, and I think his fastball made his slider better tonight with how well he commanded both sides of the plate. Its the best Ive seen him throw.The Rockies took control early when Arenado hit a two-run homer that hit the left-field concourse with twwo outs in the first.dddddddddddd David Dahl then kept the inning going with a double and Murphy homered to give Colorado a 4-0 lead.Later, Charlie Blackmon hit an RBI triple in the fourth and Murphy hit a three-run shot in the fifth for his first multihomer game of his career.It was just one of those games where we were dominated, Padres manager Andy Green said. The mistakes Edwin Jackson made today, he paid for. Every pitch was hit when he missed a spot. He just left them over the middle and they made him pay.DJ LeMahieu singled and reached base twice to extend his on-base streak to 33 games. His .349 batting average is one point ahead of Washingtons Daniel Murphy for the lead in the NL batting race.SADNESSThe Padres announced that 3B Yangervis Solartes wife, Yuliett, died Saturday due to complications from her fight against cancer.Solarte thanked people on Twitter for their support late Saturday night. Solarte had missed the last two games for San Diego.TRAINERS ROOMRHP Jarred Cosart (right hamstring injury and groin strain) will start on Sunday for the Padres after he was pulled from his last start in the fourth inning.His leg is fine and we are going to proceed with the rotation, Green said.Green also said that RHP Tyson Ross (shoulder) is not expected to return this season. ... C Derek Norris left the game in the fifth with a sprained left middle finger. Green said X-rays were negative.UP NEXTThe final meeting of the year between the NL West foes will match Cosart and RHP Chad Bettis. Cosart (0-3, 5.16 ERA) allowed 10 runs in 7 2/3 innings in his last two starts. Bettis (12-7, 4.78), meanwhile, is 8-2 with a 3.99 ERA since June 15.