"Rays 3B Evan Longoria's last inside-the-park home run came in Little League … before Sunday.

"There weren't fences," he said. "You hit one over the guy's head and just run until you can't run anymore."

Longoria accomplished the feat in Sunday's 9-6 win over Baltimore, hustling for a two-run homer off RHP Jeremy Accardo in the eighth inning to become the ninth Ray to do so, and first since Carl Crawford on July 20, 2009.

The play started with a hard liner to center that knuckled from right to left, fooling Orioles CF Adam Jones. Longoria initially saw Jones' glove up and thought it would just be a single. But it ended up getting past Jones, rolling to the wall, and Longoria went for broke.

"As soon as I saw it take a left turn, I just put my head down and ran," Longoria said. "I was pretty much committed to going home, there wasn't any slowing me down around third."

Third-base coach Tom Foley waved Longoria in, and though he was "out of gas," he beat the relay throw with a feet-first slide, smiling all the way to the dugout.

"I had a shot at it," Jones said. "I just missed the ball.""