Gameday Preview (Sunday): Rays Look to Sweep Orioles in Steamy Day Game

The Tampa Bay Rays have won two straight games against the Baltimore Orioles for the first time all season, and they look for the sweep on Sunday at Steinbrenner Field. Here are batting orders and newsy nuggets.

Tampa Bay second baseman Brandon Lowe is not in the lineup Sunday. He was in a walking boot and is dealing with a foot issue. | Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images

TAMPA, Fla. — The Tampa Bay Rays are off to a good start out of the All-Star break, winning two straight against the Baltimore Orioles. They'll go for a sweep on Sunday afternoon at steamy Steinbrenner Field in Tampa

The Rays are 5-4 on the season vs. Baltimore, and this is the first time all year that they've beaten them on consecutive days. They'll face a tough left-hander on Sunday in Trevor Rodgers, who has a 1.53 ERA over six starts and 35.1 innings. He faced the Rays on June 18 and gave up three runs in 2.1 innings. He's only given up three runs TOTAL in his other five starts. Ryan Pepiot gets the call for the Rays.

With a lefty on the mound and Brandon Lowe out with a foot injury, Jose Caballero, Taylor Walls and Ha-Seong Kim are all in the lineup in the infield on the same day for the first time.

Here's how to watch Sunday's game:

How to watch Orioles-Rays

• Who: Baltimore Orioles (43-54) at Tampa Bay Rays (52-47)
• When: Sunday, July 20 at 12:10 p.m. ET
• Where: Steinbrenner Field, Tampa, Fla.
• TV: FanDuel Sports Sun
• Radio: WDAE 95.3 FM/620 AM, WQBN 106.7/1300 AM (Spanish)
• Betting information: The Rays are favored on the money line at HardRockBet.com at minus-130, and the Orioles' money line odds are plus-110. On the run line, you can bet the Rays minus-1.5 at plus-140 odds, and the Orioles plus-1.5 runs at minus-185 odds. The over/under is 8.5 runs.

Here are the starting lineups for both teams:

Orioles batting order

1. Jackson Holliday 2B
2. Jordan Westburg 3B
3. Gunnar Henderson SS
4. Ryan O'Hearn 1B
5. Ramon Laureano RF
6. Colton Cowser LF
7. Tyler O'Neill DH
8. Cedric Mullins CF
9. Alex Jackson C

Rays batting order

1. Chandler Simpson CF
2. Ha Seong-Kim 2B
3. Yandy Diaz 1B
4. Junior Caminero DH
5. Christopher Morel LF
6. Jake Mangum RF
7. Danny Jansen C
8. Jose Caballero 3B
9. Taylor Walls SS

Starting pitchers

• TREVOR ROGERS, Baltimore Orioles: Trevor Rogers is 2-1 with a 1.53 earned run average this season. The 27-year-old from Carlsbad, N.M., is making his seventh start of the season and has allowed only six runs all season. ... His only loss came in his last outing at Miami, where he pitched 6.2 innings and had eight strikeouts while allowing only one run in a 6-0 loss. ... It's tough to hit a long ball against Rogers. Since the beginning of the 2021 season, he has allowed just 0.82 homers per nine innings, the 11th-best mark in the majors among starters, with a minimum of 400 innings.

• RYAN PEPIOT, Tampa Bay Rays: Ryan Pepiot is 6-7 on the season with a 3.38 earned run average. The 27-year-old from Indianapolis is making his 21st start of the season, and his 13th at home. ... Pepiot has 13 quality starts this season, third-best in the American League behind Framber Valdez of Houston and Bryan Woo of Seattle, who each have 14. ... Pepiot's worst outing of the year came against Baltimore in June 27 at Camden Yards. He was tagged for four runs in just 1.2 innings, and got the early hook in what turned out to be a record-setting 22-8 loss.

Rays newsy nuggets

• NO BRANDON LOWE ON SUNDAY: Tampa Bay Rays second baseman Brandon Lowe left Saturday's game early because of a plantar fasciiitis issue in his left foot, and he is not in the lineup on Sunday. He was in a walking boot pregame, so it's unlikely he will be available even off the bench.

• MINI-STREAKING RAYS: The Rays have won back-to-back games for the first time since a three-game sweep on the road in Kansas City from June 24-26. That's a span of 16 games without consecutive wins. It's also the first time all year that they've beaten Baltimore on back-to-back days. If they can beat Baltimore on Sunday, it will be their sixth sweep of the season. Only the Toronto Blue Jays and Los Angeles Dodgers have more, with seven.

• RBI KINGS FOR RAYS: After Jonathan Aranda drove in his 50th run in Saturday night's 4-3 win, the Rays now have four players with 50 RBI or more: Aranda, Junior Caminero (64), Yandy Díaz (57) and Brandon Lowe (50). Four over 50 has been done only by the Rays, Dodgers, Chicago Cubs, Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees. This is only the second time in Rays history that they've had four guys with 50 RBIs or more before the end of July. It happened in 2023 with Diaz, Randy Arozarena, Josh Lowe and Isaac Paredes.

Related Rays stories

• BOUNCE-BACK DAY FOR RYAN PEPIOT: The last start against the Baltimore Orioles for Tampa Bay Rays right-hander Ryan Pepiot ended in disaster. On Sunday, he has a chance to show it was just a bad outing. Here's the story, with great quotes from Pepiot. CLICK HERE

• TOM BREW COLUMN: Tampa Bay Rays All-Star third baseman Junior Caminero must not have gotten the memo that the Home Run Derby was over, mashing two home runs in Friday's 11-1 victory over the Baltimore Orioles. He's turning into a national superstar. CLICK HERE

• McCLANAHAN STRUGGLES: Tampa Bay pitcher Shane McClanahan, who's missed nearly two years with arm injuries, didn't make it out of the first inning of his rehab start in Durham. Here's what went wrong. CLICK HERE

• ON BOARD: Tampa Bay's top draft pick Daniel Pierce, a high school shortstop from Georgia, signs first pro contract with the Rays. Here are the numbers. CLICK HERE