Trailing from Ryan Pepiot’s second pitch shortly after noon and forced to wait 2 hours, 36 minutes to start the top of the seventh inning, the Rays lost 5-3 to the Orioles in a game that concluded around 5:25 p.m,

It was hot, with a Rays’ home-game record 93 degrees at first pitch, and a feels-like of 105. It was wet, with enough rain falling, and lightning flashing, for a 2 1/2-hour-plus delay between the sixth and seventh innings.