Rays 7 Orioles 6: Longoria has 5 RBI night

Both starting pitchers make early departures in an offense-filled gameSo the good news is that this is the perfect time for Blake Snell to learn to pitch successfully at the major league level.

The bad news is that watching him figure it out can be aggravating.

And the worse news is that the Dana Eveland experiment continues. Nonetheless, the Rays held on to defeat the Orioles 7-6.

Lots of early inning runs

The Rays got an early lead off of Yovani Gallardo. He walked the first two batters before yielding a classic three run bomb to our own Mr. Longoria.

But the Orioles came back strong in the bottom of the inning. Even though, as JT Morgan wrote earlier, Baltimore struggles against lefties, they…