Orioles rally to top Red Sox for 7th straight win
BALTIMORE (AP) — Ramon Urias hit a two-run double within the fourth inning, and the Baltimore Orioles rallied from a four-run deficit towards Chris Sale, beating the Boston Red Sox 5-4 on Monday evening for his or her seventh straight victory.
Sale (1-2) allowed 9 hits — one by every member of the Baltimore batting order — in 5 innings, failing to carry onto a 4-0 lead after Triston Casas and Rafael Devers homered for Boston. Dean Kremer (2-0) wasn’t nice both for the Orioles, however he made it into the sixth inning after some early struggles and gave his crew an opportunity to come back again.
After Kremer exited, the Baltimore bullpen pitched 3 1/3 hitless innings. After Danny Coulombe allowed a leadoff stroll within the ninth, Yennier Cano got here on and balked the runner to second. Kike Hernandez struck out wanting, Casas went down swinging and Jarren Duran lined out for Cano’s first profession save.
Casas opened the scoring with a solo homer within the second, and after an RBI single by Alex Verdugo the next inning, Devers hit a two-run shot to make it 4-0.
The Orioles started their rally within the backside of the third when Adam Frazier hit an RBI single. Urias’ double within the fourth made it 4-3, and he got here dwelling on a tying single by James McCann.
Austin Hays hit an RBI single within the fifth to present the Orioles the lead, then threw Justin Turner out at third from left subject an inning later to assist Baltimore keep forward.
Sale was coming off an 11-strikeout efficiency towards Minnesota in his earlier outing, however he didn’t have any towards the Orioles. In truth, Baltimore made contact on 40 of its 42 swings towards him. The left-hander’s ERA elevated to eight.22.
The harm towards him might’ve been worse. The Orioles grounded into three double performs and had a runner thrown out stealing throughout Sale’s 5 innings. Baltimore hit into one other double play within the eighth.
Red Sox hitting coach Peter Fatse was ejected within the sixth.
BLOOPER
Hernandez made a diving cease behind second base on Cedric Mullins’ grounder within the seventh, however when he tried to roll into his throw in a single movement, the toss hit second base umpire Manny Gonzalez as he was attempting to get out of the way in which.
UP AND DOWN
The Red Sox recalled LHP Brennan Bernardino from Triple-A Worcester and optioned RHP Brayan Bello to Worcester earlier than the sport.
The Orioles promoted INF Jackson Holliday to Aberdeen, the crew’s superior Class A affiliate. Holliday was the No. 1 decide in final yr’s draft.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Red Sox: SS Yu Chang left within the seventh with a left wrist difficulty after swinging and lacking a pitch. Christian Arroyo went up with two strikes to complete that at-bat, however the eventual strikeout was charged to Chang.
UP NEXT
Corey Kluber (0-4) takes the mound for Boston on Tuesday evening towards Kyle Bradish (1-0) of the Orioles. Bradish hasn’t allowed a run in 7 2/3 innings this season.
