BOSTON RED SOX SCORE SERIES
The O’s lost 4-3, and the series was evened at a game apiece. He laced a ball into center field, but it couldn’t find the grass. Odor stepped to the plate as the last hope, a role he has often thrived in this year. Mateo tripled with one out, and then came on home on another Stowers RBI groundout. That would prove to be a huge run as the Orioles also scored once in the ninth. With Bryan Baker on the bump, the visitors scored once on a pair of singles from Duran and Plawecki followed by a Christian Arroyo double.Ĭhristian Arroyo has 9 RBI in his last 11 games. The two sides held serve through the eighth inning, and then the Red Sox scored a crucial insurance run in the top of the ninth. The bottom of the order had done well to score twice and get the game back within reach. After a Rougned Odor pop out, the O’s scored their second on a wild pitch from Schreiber while Robinson Chirinos was at the plate. Instead, Stowers grounded out, but Urías did score. It seemed like the setting for a storybook scene.
Up stepped Kyle Stowers, pinching hitting for Ryan McKenna. Ramon Urías and Jorge Mateo opened with singles, which gave them runners on second and third following a bad throw from Duran in right. Wacha had been replaced by John Schreiber in the previous inning, and the O’s went to work. The 31-year-old has had a nice season, and he has yet to allow a run since returning from the IL earlier this month.įinally, in the seventh inning, they broke through. But they aren’t the first victims of Michael Wacha. Through the first six innings, the Orioles did not have a runner advance beyond second base. Like their opponents, the O’s had traffic on the bases through the game’s early going. This was a good start! It’s just unfortunate that the Orioles offense seems to have wasted all of their bullets the previous night. His season ERA lowered for the fifth straight start. And, importantly, he avoided a first inning disaster, something that has proven difficult for him much of his rookie season. He had good fastball velocity, and his breaking pitches were actually up a tick or two. Over 5.2 innings, Bradish allowed three runs on nine hits, no walks, and six strikeouts.