The Miami Marlins lost three of four in their most recent series, but they won’t be getting a lot of sympathy from the Baltimore Orioles.

The Marlins will look to bounce back with a win Tuesday when they visit the Orioles, who are desperate for a victory after an ugly trip to Yankee Stadium.

Baltimore comes in riding a five-game losing streak. After an 11-5 loss to end a home series against the Houston Astros on Thursday, the Orioles went to the Bronx and dropped all four meetings with the New York Yankees. The sweep was not particularly competitive, as Baltimore was outscored 39-10.

“Four-game set, to not win a game is really tough, frustrating,” Orioles manager Craig Albernaz said. “We’ve got to bounce back in Miami and just play clean baseball to give ourselves a chance.”

In the series-ending 12-1 defeat on Monday, Baltimore amassed 10 hits but mustered only the one run — on a bases-loaded walk, no less. Blaze Alexander led the way with three hits, but it wasn’t nearly enough for the scuffling Orioles.

“We just weren’t competitive,” Albernaz said. “We didn’t really give ourselves a chance to win, whether it be mistakes, miscues, whatever the case may be. But that’s on us. … This series it just felt like we couldn’t stop the bleeding in the big inning, or we just shot ourselves in the foot.”

Baltimore will try to recover behind Chris Bassitt (2-2, 5.46 ERA), who was terrific against the Astros on Thursday in his most recent outing. The veteran right-hander gave up one run in 6 2/3 innings in a much-needed start for one of the league’s most underperforming rotations.

“All of our starters have been pretty poor throughout the year,” Bassitt said that day. “I thought we had kind of a come-to Jesus (moment) … and had some hard talks about how we were pitching, our mindset with pitching. … We have bullpen guys — and obviously starters — that are way too good to be cute out there.”

Bassitt is 1-2 with a 4.21 ERA in four lifetime starts against Miami. This time, he will be opposing a Marlins team that mustered only two runs total in its most recent two games. Miami lost three of four in the series against the visiting Philadelphia Phillies, including 7-2 and 1-0 defeats to end the set.

“There were more scattered moments by us offensively tonight,” Miami manager Clayton McCullough said after the Monday defeat. “We just didn’t have that inning where we were able to string some (hits) together.”

Joe Mack, one of the Marlins’ top prospects, made his major league debut on Monday. The 23-year-old catcher batted seventh and went 0-for-3 with a strikeout.

“It’ll take a little while offensively to get up here and let yourself relax and take quality at-bats,” McCullough said, “but I thought behind the plate he seemed very calm and did a nice job.”

Sandy Alcantara (3-2, 3.04 ERA) will get the ball for the Marlins in the series opener. He gave up two runs and seven hits over six innings Wednesday in a no-decision against the Los Angeles Dodgers. He has not allowed a home run in either of his past two starts.

In two career starts vs. the Orioles, Alcantara is 1-1 with a 3.75 ERA.

The teams played three games in Baltimore last season. The Marlins lost the first game before winning the final two by a combined 17-1 margin.

–Field Level Media

After picking up Monday right where they left off over the weekend, the Tampa Bay Rays will try to win their three-game series with the Toronto Blue Jays on Tuesday night in St. Petersburg, Fla.

The Rays, who are a season-best 10 games over .500 after winning 5-1 in the opener, have prevailed in 10 of their past 11 contests.

They turned to a less familiar name on Monday: Ryan Vilade.

Batting third, the 27-year-old Texan slugged a three-run homer that was all the Rays needed to secure their fourth straight victory.

Hitting .286 for the season, Vilade is batting .357 with nine RBIs and an .936 OPS over his past 14 games.

Tampa Bay’s Jonathan Aranda, who went 3-for-4 on Monday, is 9-for-13 in his past three outings, and Rays starter Nick Martinez moved to 3-1 with a 1.71 ERA after producing five innings of one-run ball.

The Rays are 12-2 in games started by either Martinez or Steven Matz.

Tampa Bay beat the Blue Jays four straight times last May — once in Toronto, three times in Tampa — and Rays manager Kevin Cash noticed a change as the Jays cut a path to the World Series.

“I remember that series in May, we swept them,” Cash said Monday on the team’s radio pregame show. “But they did a nice job of resetting themselves. They got great production from top to bottom of their lineup.

“They played really good defense. That is probably the thing that changed the most for me. … They weren’t giving extra outs, and a pretty electric bullpen.”

Three games under .500 and 6-11 away from home, the reigning American League champion Blue Jays are visiting arguably their least favorite venue. Toronto has lost nine of its past 11 games at Tampa Bay — either in Tampa or St. Petersburg — and hasn’t posted a winning record on the road vs. the Rays since 2014.

“It’s not the building, it’s not the turf, it’s not the roof, it’s not the lights, it’s not anything,” Blue Jays manager John Schneider said. “(The Rays) are a good team. You’ve got to play better is the bottom line.”

Tuesday’s matchup will feature two powerful right-handers.

The Blue Jays will send out Kevin Gausman (2-2, 3.10 ERA), possessor of a darting splitter, for his eighth start of the season.

In 5 2/3 innings against Minnesota in his last outing on Thursday, the 14-year veteran yielded four runs on four hits in 5 2/3 innings while walking two and fanning two.

In 24 starts and two relief stints against the Rays, Gausman is 8-9 with a 4.06 ERA.

Tampa Bay will counter with Drew Rasmussen (2-1, 2.64 ERA), who lost his latest start in Cleveland after allowing three runs (two earned) on six hits in five innings on Wednesday.

In his 30 2/3 innings over six starts, the right-hander has a 0.848 WHIP that would lead the AL if he had pitched enough innings to qualify.

Rasmussen is 2-4 with a 2.65 ERA in nine starts and two relief appearances against the Blue Jays.

–Field Level Media

The New York Yankees did not do much offensively last week and yet recorded a series win in a three-game set against the host Texas Rangers.

The Yankees, who battered the Baltimore Orioles in the past four games, hope to keep rolling at the plate Tuesday night when they host Texas in the opener of a three-game series.

The Yankees are 14-2 in their past 16 games, and two of those wins were in Texas, where they scored seven runs in a pair of close games.

New York is seeking its fifth straight win after scoring 39 runs against Baltimore. The Yankees totaled 47 hits, 24 walks and went 18-for-38 with runners in scoring position in the series.

“It’s been great,” New York starting pitcher Cam Schlittler said of New York’s offense. “We’ve been on a really good roll these last couple of series. It’s fun to see one through nine contributing, putting up great at-bats and driving runs in.”

New York concluded the Baltimore series with a 12-1 rout on Monday. Aaron Judge has 11 of his 14 homers this season during his past 21 games and hit a two-run blast in the first inning before adding a two-run single in a six-run eighth.

After the Yankees faced an opponent with a 4.96 ERA, they will face Texas’ Jacob deGrom (2-1, 2.01 ERA) for the second time in a week.

The right-hander took the loss against New York last Tuesday despite allowing one run on six hits in six innings in a 3-2 setback.

He yielded an RBI double to Cody Bellinger in the first inning after a single by Judge and held the Yankees hitless in the next 11 at-bats. The former Cy Young Award winner is 2-5 with a 2.97 ERA in nine career starts against the Yankees.

deGrom is part of a pitching staff with a 3.66 ERA, but the Rangers are hitting .235 and their 127 runs are the fewest in the American League.

Texas has dropped nine of its past 14 games and has scored more than five runs in only one of those contests. Texas also has scored fewer than three runs in that span seven times, including the final two games of its series in Detroit.

After earning a 5-4 victory on Friday, the Rangers went 0-for-11 with runners in scoring position in the past two games.

Texas’ defense faltered in a 7-1 loss to the Tigers on Sunday night, including center fielder Evan Carter failing to finish a diving catch.

“We weren’t real fundamentally sound like we’re typically used to,” Texas manager Skip Schumaker said. “We had some really good plays. The outfield had some really good plays, there were some plays in the infield that were really good as well, but there were some plays that we’re used to making that we didn’t.”

While Corey Seager collected a hit in each of the games in Detroit, he is 4-for-27 in his past seven contests. Seager’s slump is coinciding with Josh Jung batting .378 during a 12-game hitting streak.

New York right-hander Elmer Rodriguez (0-1, 4.50 ERA), who is in the rotation until Carlos Rodon completes his rehab from left elbow surgery, will make his second career start. He debuted Wednesday afternoon in Texas and allowed two runs on four hits in four innings of a 3-0 loss.

–Field Level Media