BALTIMORE (AP) -- Desmond Jennings opened the game with the first of Tampa Bay's three home runs off Wei-Yin Chen, and the Rays got an impressive pitching performance from former Oriole Erik Bedard in a 5-4 victory over Baltimore on Saturday.Tampa Bay built a five-run lead in the fourth inning, then held off a late comeback bid to improve to 3-8 against the Orioles this season. 
Logan Forsythe and rookie Kevin Kiermaier each hit a two-run shot against Chen (7-3), who lasted only 3 1-3 innings in the shortest outing of his three-year career. Of the 15 home runs Chen has yielded this season, five have come against the light-hitting Rays.Tampa Bay started the day tied for 25th in the majors with 59 home runs and hit only two its previous nine games.Bedard (4-5) struck out seven in a season-high seven-plus innings. The 35-year-old lefty gave up three runs and five hits against the team he began his career with in 2002.He was pulled after giving up a two-run homer to Manny Machado in the eighth.Adam Jones added an RBI single off Jake McGee, who subsequently retired Nelson Cruz with two outs and runners on the corners. McGee returned in the ninth to earn his third save - the second in two days.Nick Markakis also homered for the Orioles, who need a win Sunday to salvage a split of the four-game series against the team with the worst record in the big leagues.Chen gave up a season-high five runs, seven hits and a pair of walks. The Taiwanese left-hander was 4-0 in nine starts since May 3 and 1-0 with a 2.77 ERA in two games against Tampa Bay.On Chen's fourth pitch, a 91 mph fastball, Jennings hit his seventh career leadoff homer to put the Rays ahead for good. Prior to the at-bat, Jennings was 4 for 23 (.174) against Chen.In the second, Sean Rodriguez singled and Forsythe followed with his first home run in 142 at-bats this season.Tampa Bay made it 5-0 in the fourth when Forsythe singled and Kiermaier drove a 1-2 pitch into the right-field bleachers. It was the fifth home run of the season for Kiermaier and the first by a left-hander against Chen.Forsythe went 3 for 3 with a walk and scored twice.Bedard retired 10 straight batters before Markakis homered on a 1-2 pitch in the sixth.
Logan Forsythe and rookie Kevin Kiermaier each hit a two-run shot against Chen (7-3), who lasted only 3 1-3 innings in the shortest outing of his three-year career. Of the 15 home runs Chen has yielded this season, five have come against the light-hitting Rays.Tampa Bay started the day tied for 25th in the majors with 59 home runs and hit only two its previous nine games.Bedard (4-5) struck out seven in a season-high seven-plus innings. The 35-year-old lefty gave up three runs and five hits against the team he began his career with in 2002.He was pulled after giving up a two-run homer to Manny Machado in the eighth.Adam Jones added an RBI single off Jake McGee, who subsequently retired Nelson Cruz with two outs and runners on the corners. McGee returned in the ninth to earn his third save - the second in two days.Nick Markakis also homered for the Orioles, who need a win Sunday to salvage a split of the four-game series against the team with the worst record in the big leagues.Chen gave up a season-high five runs, seven hits and a pair of walks. The Taiwanese left-hander was 4-0 in nine starts since May 3 and 1-0 with a 2.77 ERA in two games against Tampa Bay.On Chen's fourth pitch, a 91 mph fastball, Jennings hit his seventh career leadoff homer to put the Rays ahead for good. Prior to the at-bat, Jennings was 4 for 23 (.174) against Chen.In the second, Sean Rodriguez singled and Forsythe followed with his first home run in 142 at-bats this season.Tampa Bay made it 5-0 in the fourth when Forsythe singled and Kiermaier drove a 1-2 pitch into the right-field bleachers. It was the fifth home run of the season for Kiermaier and the first by a left-hander against Chen.Forsythe went 3 for 3 with a walk and scored twice.Bedard retired 10 straight batters before Markakis homered on a 1-2 pitch in the sixth.
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