Oakland Raiders-Baltimore Ravens game wrap: Another road win for the Silver and Black

By Jeremy Kahn

AP photo: Oakland Raiders quarterback Derek Carr (4) threw under pressure for most of Sunday to help the Raiders just get by the Baltimore Ravens

Once again, the Oakland Raiders took the road and once again it will be a happy plane ride for the Silver and Black.

Derek Carr threw four touchdowns, including one to Michael Crabtree with 2:12 remaining in the game and the Raiders cans back to defeat the Baltimore Ravens 28-27 at M&T Bank Stadium, knocking the Ravens from the ranks of the unbeaten.

The Ravens took the lead with 3:30 remaining in the game, as they came back from a nine-point deficit. After the Ravens took the lead, Carr drove the Raiders down the field in 1:18 and a 66-yard drive that ended with Carr finding Crabtree for a 23-yard touchdown.

You have to go back to the 2002 season, when the Raiders made it to the Super Bowl to see when they won their first three road games of the season.

Carr ended the afternoon, going 25-for-35 for 199 yards with those four touchdowns, three of them went to Crabtree, who finished the game with seven catches for 88 yards and three touchdowns.

The Ravens, who fell to 3-1 on the season, trailed early in the second quarter by the score of 14-3 and then 21-12 with a little over 11 minutes remaining in the game.

Joe Flacco cut the Raiders lead down to 21-19 when he found Steve Smith, Sr. for a 52-yard touchdown pass. After the Raiders got the ball, the Ravens defense led by Lawrence Guy forced a fumble by DeAndre Washington, and the Ravens recovered it at the Raiders 17.

Terrance West scored four plays later from the three-yard line to give the Ravens their first lead of the afternoon.

Flacco ended the game by going 32-for-52 for 299 yards passing, as the Ravens as a team accumulated 412 yards of total offense against a Raiders defense that is one of the worst in the NFL.

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