Shields, Longoria propel the Rays

James Shields gave up three hits over seven innings, Evan Longoria hit his major league-leading fifth home run and the Tampa Bay Rays averted a three-game sweep by beating the Baltimore Orioles, 11-3, on Sunday.

Longoria was three for five and is batting .481. He has five consecutive multihit games and has driven at least one run in five of six starts.

Ben Zobrist, Jason Bartlett and Carlos Pena also homered for the Rays, who got 17 hits.

Shields (1-1) struck out three and walked one.

Added to the 25-man roster before the game, Adam Eaton (0-1) gave up four runs and eight hits over four innings in his debut with the Orioles. Ten of the 21 batters he faced reached base, two on walks.

The current group of Rays had been a collective 0 for 24 all-time against Eaton, but Akinori Iwamura gave an indication of things to come by opening the game with the first of his three hits.