Rays at Orioles 9/18/20 - MLB Picks & Predictions

In Friday night MLB action, the Tampa Bay Rays and the Baltimore Orioles will continue their weekend series from Camden Yards. In the first game of Thursday’s doubleheader, SP Blake Snell allowed one run over five plus innings during a 3-1 road victory against Baltimore. Brett Phillips tripled in a run for the Rays (33-18), who lead the AL East Division by 3.5 games.

Hard-throwing righty Tyler Glasnow (3-1 4.47 ERA) will make his tenth start of the season for the Rays. Through 46 plus innings, Glasnow has fanned an impressive 74 batters and posted a 1.19 WHIP.

The Baltimore Orioles have dropped eight of their previous ten games and are running out of time to make a postseason push. In the second game of Thursday’s doubleheader, Baltimore went 1-for-7 with RISP and left seven men on base during a 10-6 defeat. Hanser Alberto and Rio Ruiz each went deep for the Orioles, who fell to 22-29 on the season.

The Orioles will counter with twenty-nine year old righty Alex Cobb (1-4 5.03 ERA) on Friday. Cobb has dropped consecutive starts and has been tagged for ten runs (9 ER) over his last eight innings of work.