SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) -- Pedro Alvarez drove in five runs with a grand slam and double, Mark Trumbo hit a two-run shot and the Baltimore Orioles and Cuba-bound Tampa Bay Rays played to an 8-8 tie on Sunday.
The Rays were scheduled to leave from Tampa for Havana to play the Cuban national team on Tuesday in the first game by an American team there since the Orioles visited in 1999.
"This is coming at an ideal time in spring training. Any club will tell you, you hit that staleness of spring training at about the two-thirds point. This is a great time for this to be happening," manager Kevin Cash said.
Alvarez, who recently signed with the Orioles, hit his first home run of the spring in the second inning. Trumbo hit his third home run in the third.
Chris Tillman, who missed his first start for Baltimore with a strained hip, allowed three runs on five hits in four innings. He gave up back-to-back home runs to Logan Morrison and Evan Longoria in the third.
Steven Souza Jr. hit a grand slam off T.J. McFarland in the Rays fifth to tie it at 7. The game was called after nine innings.
STARTING TIME
Rays: Minor league RHP Jhan Marinez started and was removed after Alvarez's home run in the second. .LHP Drew Smyly pitched in an intrasquad game. . RHP Jake Odorizzi pitches in a minor league game on Monday.
Orioles: Tillman didn't blame the wind for the back-to-back home runs.
"Those were mistakes and they deserved to get hit," Tillman said. "Our guys hit some too. It goes both ways."
TRAINER'S ROOM
Rays: INF/OF Steve Pearce, who missed eight games earlier this month with a calf injury, played in an intrasquad game in Port Charlotte to make up for missed at-bats.
Orioles: RHP Kevin Gausman received a cortisone injection in his right shoulder on Sunday morning. ... "I don't know if it's a big concern," manager Buck Showalter said. "He's had some inflammation in there, and we just want to get rid of that. We feel good about it structurally, hasn't managed to go away completely. When we have some time here, try and clear it up before we break camp. Hopefully, that's all it is. See where we are in two or three days." ... C Matt Wieters (elbow) resumed throwing and took live batting practice. ... LHP Brian Matusz pitched a scoreless ninth in his first appearance since injuring his back on Mar. 2.
UP NEXT
Rays: LHP Matt Moore will start for Tampa Bay against the Cuban national team on Tuesday. RHP Erasmo Ramirez starts against the Twins in Fort Myers on Wednesday.
Orioles: Are off on Monday. RHP Yovani Gallardo, whose start on Saturday at Tampa Bay was rained out, will pitch in a minor league game. On Tuesday, RHP Mike Wright starts in Fort Myers against Minnesota LHP Logan Darnell.
CUBA, HERE WE COME
Cash said that he hadn't spent any time at all preparing for the Rays' trip to Cuba.
"There are so many other people that have worked extremely hard to make things easy on us as players and coaches," Cash said.
CUT
Orioles LHP Jeff Beliveau and OF Alfredo Marte has been reassigned to minor league camp.
