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BALTIMORE -- A poor start by Yovani Gallardo and an abundance of missed scoring opportunities cost the Baltimore Orioles a chance to enhance their position in the playoff picture.Evan Longoria homered and drove in five runs, and the last-place Tampa Bay Rays again played the spoilers role in a 7-6 victory over the Orioles on Thursday night.Baltimore dropped two games behind AL East-leading Boston and dripped into a tie with Toronto for the two AL wild cards after the Blue Jays beat the Los Angeles Angels later Thursday.Gallardo (5-8) gave up six runs and seven hits in 3 1/3 innings.When Orioles manager Buck Showalter emerged from the dugout to pull Gallardo in the fourth, many of the hometown fans cheered. They subsequently booed the right-hander as he walked toward the dugout.In spite of this, Baltimore had runners on the corners with one out in the ninth inning before Alex Colome struck out major league home run leader Mark Trumbo and slugger Chris Davis to earn his 33rd save.Its a tough loss because we fought back and had a chance there at the end, catcher Matt Wieters said.Baltimore went 3 for 15 with runners in scoring position.Tampa Bay has won three straight, including the last two of a three-game series in Toronto. The Rays also defeated the wild-card contending Yankees on Sunday.Its fun that we are playing competitive baseball, Longoria said. Its one thing to go out in a great environment against a team that is a playoff contender, but to be in the game and winning games is the best thing about it.Longoria hit his career high-tying 33rd homer with two on in the first inning and added a two-run single in the fourth to increase his team-high RBI total to 91.Coming off a 6-3 road trip culminated with two successive wins in Boston, the Orioles fell flat against a team they dominated for much of the season. Baltimore is now 11-5 against Tampa Bay, 6-1 at home.First game back home, you obviously want to get home and start off on a good note, Gallardo said. Ive been feeling good my past few starts, and I was just a little off.Although the temperature was a comfortable 72 degrees and the Orioles are in the midst of a playoff push, the game attracted an announced crowd of only 19,233.Longoria put the Rays up 3-0 before Gallardo got an out. In 21 starts this season, hes surrendered 21 earned runs in the first inning.Baltimore answered in the bottom half with a two-run single by Wieters and a two-run double by J.J. Hardy.Tampa Bay pulled even in the second, went ahead in the third and used Longorias two-run single to make it 7-4 in the fourth.Baltimores Nolan Reimold hit into a double play with runners on the corners in the fourth. The Rays worked out of an even bigger jam in the fifth, retiring Manny Machado, Trumbo and Davis with runners at second and third.Brad Boxberger (4-1) got the last two outs in the fifth.Run-scoring groundouts by Hardy and Michael Bourn made it 7-6 in the eighth.Tampa Bay was eliminated from playoff contention when Toronto beat the Angels.TRAINERS ROOMRays: 1B Nick Franklin left in the fifth inning with a left hamstring strain. Hes day to day, manager Kevin Cash said. ... 1B Logan Morrison will get a second opinion on whether surgery is required for his season-ending left wrist injury. Morrison was injured while taking a swing Sunday and received an MRI this week.Orioles: OF Steve Pearce will be sidelined until the final week of the season, maybe longer, after receiving a platelet-rich plasma injection in his throwing arm Wednesday. ... RHP Darren ODay (rotator cuff strain) will throw a simulated game Friday.UP NEXTRays: Chris Archer (8-18, 4.05 ERA) starts Friday night, seeking to pad his AL-leading strikeout total of 217. He also hopes to avoid setting the franchise record for losses in a season. The right-hander is currently tied with Tanyon Sturtze, who lost 18 in 2002.Orioles: RHP Ubaldo Jimenez (7-11, 5.98) strives to win his fourth straight start. Hes got a 2.83 ERA in his last four outings. Wholesale Nike Air Max Shoes . Detroit and Boston are deadlocked, 1-1, and Tigers manager Jim Leyland could be forgiven if he was caught rationalizing instead of dissecting how his club could blow a 5-1 lead late in Game 2. Cheap Wholesale Air Max Shoes . 9. 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Texas A&M Sophomore ? MB ? 6-2 ? Allen, TexasOffensive Player of the Week:Kaitlyn Blake ? Texas A&M Sophomore ? MB ? 6-2 ? Allen, TexasBlake led Texas A&M with a .463 hitting percentage, 3.29 kills, 1.43 blocks and 4.43 points per set as the Aggies went 2-0 on the road last week and extended their winning streak to four matches. Against Ole Miss, she set her season high and tied her career high with 14 kills while hitting .444. Blake took match-high honors in blocks with seven against the Rebels, and took team-high honors in points with 19.5, a half point shy of her career high. In the sweep at Arkansas, she posted had nine kills while hitting .500 and also added two blocks. For the full season, Blake leads the SEC with 1.61 blocks per set and is ninth in the league with a .342 hitting efficiency.Defensive Player of the Week:Rhamat Alhassan ? Florida Junior ? MB ? 6-4 ? Glenarden, Md.In Floridas win at South Carolina, Alhassan tallied a match-high six blocks, which tied the third-best total in a three-set SEC match this season. She also posted a match-high 15 points (10th double-digit outing of the season), 10 kills and a service ace. Alhassan leads the SEC in blocks per set for conference matches (1.47) annd ranks second overall (1.dddddddddddd40) this season.Setter of the Week:Olivia Dailey ? Kentucky Sophomore ? 5-10 ? Trussville, Ala.Dailey averaged 13.50 assists per set as the Wildcats improved to 6-0 in league play. She started the weekend with 41 assists at Mississippi State, three off the 25-point rally era record for a three-set match. Dailey helped the offense hit .368 as a team and tie a 25-point rally scoring record of 54 kills during a three-set match. She followed that performance with 40 assists against Tennessee while helping the squad hit at a .333 attacking clip. The weekend matches marked her fifth and sixth 40+ assist nights.Freshman of the Week:Leah Edmond ? Kentucky Freshman ? OH ? 6-0 ? Lexington, Ky.In two three-set victories, Edmond hit .403 while contributing 5.83 points, 5.50 kills and 1.33 digs per set. She started the weekend by producing 19 kills against Mississippi State (one off her career-high), helping the squad tie a 25-point rally scoring era three-set record of 54 team kills. Edmond also helped out on defense with eight digs and two blocks, including six digs and two blocks in the win over Tennessee. ' ' '