Devil Rays 13, Orioles 3

BALTIMORE – Rob Bell took a two-hitter into the eighth inning, and Toby Hall and Damian Rolls each had three RBIs to lead the Tampa Bay Devils past the punchless Baltimore Orioles 13-3.

Rolls and Aubrey Huff both had three hits for the Devil Rays, who earned a split of the four-game series after losing a doubleheader Monday. Tampa Bay is 9-0-2 in its last 11 series, including 5-0-2 on the road.

The only player to reach base against Bell (3-3) over the first seven innings was Brian Roberts, who hit doubles in the first and third. Bell retired 13 straight batters before walking Larry Bigbie on a 3-2 pitch to open the eighth.

After Bell went to 1-0 on Jerry Hairston, Devil Rays manager Lou Piniella pulled the right-hander and summoned Jesus Colome, who yielded a single to Hairston before striking out the side.

Bell, who struck out four and walked one, came within six outs of his second complete game in 93 starts. It’s been an up-and-down season for the journeyman pitcher, who began the year with Triple-A Durham and was demoted to the bullpen last month.

Down 13-0, Baltimore scored three in the ninth off Jorge Sosa on an RBI single by Tim Raines Jr. and a two-run homer by Rafael Palmeiro.

But Bell had no problem with the Orioles, who have scored only four runs over their last 20 innings.

The Orioles’ pitching wasn’t much better – starter John Parrish (5-3) and four relievers combined to yield 14 hits and 11 walks.

Parrish, making his first start since July 2001, struggled from the outset. He gave up three first-inning runs and left in the third after throwing 64 pitches.

Parrish threw 38 pitches during a first inning in which he walked three, committed an error on a pickoff throw and uncorked a wild pitch. Rolls singled in a run, another scored when third baseman David Newhan bobbled a grounder, and Hall hit a sacrifice fly.

Tampa Bay went up 6-0 in the seventh when Geoff Blum hit a two-run double off Mike DeJean after a sacrifice fly by Hall.

Two-run singles by Rolls and Julio Lugo highlighted Tampa Bay’s seven-run ninth.

Notes: Rolls’ first-inning single was his first hit since May 23. He was 0-for-3 since being activated from the disabled list Friday. … The nine-game hitting streak of Tampa Bay’s Rocco Baldelli ended with an 0-for-5 night.

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