BALTIMORE — The Rays lost a combined no-hitter in the seventh inning Wednesday but won the game, beating the Orioles, 6-2.

The bid for what would have been the second no-hitter in Rays history and first in the majors this season ended when Griffin Jax allowed a leadoff single to Tyler O’Neill in the seventh.

It had been a team effort to that point. Shane Baz worked the first four innings in his 31st start of the season, then Edwin Uceta (1 inning) and Garrett Cleavinger (1 inning) each posted a zero.

That was the deepest the Rays have taken a no-hitter this season, three times giving up the first hit with two outs in the sixth.

For the night, the Rays used six pitchers and allowed three hits.

The Rays, who improved to 77-81 and moved back to three games ahead of the last-place Orioles, took a quick lead. Chandler Simpson led off the first with a single and was running on the pitch when Brandon Lowe followed with an RBI double.

The Rays added single runs in the second, on doubles by Richie Palacios and Hunter Feduccia, and in the third, when Lowe hit his 31st homer.

They added single runs in three more innings.

In the sixth, Tristan Gray doubled in Richie Palacios. In the seventh, Simpson singled, moved up on an error and an infield out and scored on a groundout by Junior Caminero, who got his 109th RBI, 12 shy of Carlos Pena’s team record. Rookie Jake Mangum hit a 418-foot homer in the eighth.

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