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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Joe Torre, Tommy Lasorda and Jim Leyland were among the many friends and family members at Tropicana Field on Saturday to celebrate the life of longtime baseball man Don Zimmer. The tribute was held before the Tampa Bay Rays played Seattle. Zimmer, a senior adviser for the Rays, died Wednesday at 83 in a hospital in nearby Dunedin. Both teams wore Zimmers No. 23 Brooklyn Dodgers jersey as they lined up along the foul lines. Fans stood and cheered at the end of a video tribute. There is no funeral or other memorial service planned. More than 20 family members, including Zimmers wife "Soot" -- they were married at home plate during a minor league game in 1951 -- also attended. "A great life," Soot Zimmer said. "No regrets." Son Tom Zimmer, a scout with the San Francisco Giants, caught the ceremonial first pitch thrown by granddaughter Whitney Goldstein. Torre says Zimmer was "one of a kind" and "an institution." Zimmer was Torres bench coach for four World Series championships with the Yankees. "His loss creates a void in my life," Torre said. "I hired a coach who became a family member, basically. I think baseball is just going to miss the presence of him. He was a big teddy bear, theres no question about it." Zimmer spent 66 years in baseball as a player, manager, coach and executive. "I just hope that people remember what a great baseball man this guy was," Leyland said. "He was a character, but he wasnt somebody that you laughed at when you understood how much this guy knew about baseball. His passion for the game and his passion for people." "Its kind of an ironic day," he said. "Todays the day of the Belmont, as you know, and everybody knows how he liked horses. Family came first, baseball second, horses third. So, family is here today, were going to have a ballgame and the Belmont is today." Zimmer convinced Torre not to make ties mandatory when the Yankees travelled. 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Hardy, Nick Markakis and Nate McLouth connected for the Orioles, who took two of three from Oakland to move within two games of the Athletics in the race for the second AL wild-card slot. Oakland had gone 105 straight games since April 25 without allowing 10 runs. Rookie Sonny Gray (1-2) absorbed the brunt of the damage, yielding six runs and eight hits in 3 1-3 innings. Scott Feldman (4-3) gave up one run in five innings for the Orioles. In his first three major league starts, Gray allowed a total of four earned runs and 10 hits over 21 innings. In this one, he didnt make it out of the fourth inning. The 2011 first-round draft pick was vying to become the first major leaguer since Wayne Simpson in 1970 to begin his career with four consecutive starts of six innings while permitting four hits or fewer. That pursuit ended in the second, when the right-hander gave up three hits and fell behind 5-1. Josh Donaldson homered for the Athletics, who have lost four of five. Baltimore got contributions from almost everyone in the lineup. Hardy had three hits, including his 23rd home run. Manny Machado hit two sacrifice flies and Markakis snapped a lengthy power shortage with a double and his ninth home run. Although Davis did not add to his major league-leading home run total of 46, he raised his batting average to .304. His 118 RBIs are 33 more than his previous career high. Feldman wasnt exceptionally sharp, but he made the right pitches when it counted. The right-hander gave up three hits, walked four, hit a batter, committed a balk and needed 102 pitches to get 15 outs. Ten of Felldmans first 12 pitches were out of the strike zone.dddddddddddd He walked two in the first inning and yielded an RBI single to Alberto Callaspo. Baltimore answered with two runs in the bottom half. Successive singles by Machado, Davis and Adam Jones produced a run, and Matt Wieters followed with a sacrifice fly. The Orioles made it 5-1 in the second. Roberts hit an RBI single, Machado delivered a run-scoring flyout and Davis foiled a shift to the right side by lining an RBI single through the infield and into left field. A walk, a double by McLouth and another sacrifice fly by Machado made it 6-1 in the fourth and ended Grays afternoon. His ERA jumped from 1.44 to 3.18. Hardy hit a solo shot in the sixth and Donaldson connected with a man on in the eighth. Markakis and McLouth homered in the bottom of the eighth. Markakis third-inning double ended a run of 126 at-bats without an extra-base hit. NOTES: Oakland RF Josh Reddick left with an injured right wrist. ... The Athletics head to Detroit, where they start a four-game series Monday night against the AL Central leaders. Baltimore gets Monday off before opening an important three-game set against AL East-leading Boston at Fenway Park. ... Manager Bob Melvin left Oakland OF Yoenis Cespedes out of Sundays starting lineup to give the struggling slugger an "off day mentally just as much as physically." Cespedes was 0 for 9 in the first two games of the series. . Athletics C Kurt Suzuki caught his second straight game. He went 0 for 4. ... Orioles RHP Jason Hammel (flexor strain) threw around 60 pitches on the side Sunday and will begin his rehabilitation assignment Thursday with Triple-A Bowie. ... Baltimore finished 21-12 against AL West, including 5-2 against Oakland. ' ' '