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Orioles get poor start from Chris Tillman, drop rubber game to Rays, 9-5

Most of the time when your team scores five runs, you win the game. Sunday was not such a game for the Orioles against the Rays. Chris Tillman continued to struggle.

The Orioles hit four home runs in Sunday's game and still lost to the Rays by four runs. That kind of failure takes an impressive level of dedication to the craft of playing an awful baseball game. When you get five runs, all from home runs, and you still lose 9-5, you really have to work at it.

One-time staff ace Chris Tillman led the charge on Sunday afternoon, managing to fail the Matusz Test even though he came into the game with an ERA of 5.