Bryan Woo sat down the first six Orioles (33-37) that he faced, but he lost his feel for his fastballs as he gave up six earned runs in the bottom of the third inning to bury the Mariners. While Seattle’s (36-34) bats were able to respond initially, they scored four runs in the top of the fourth, the bats were unable to score against Baltimore’s bullpen in the 7 – 5 loss.
The bottom of the third inning started off with a bang when Colton Cowser tied the game at one off of a 2-1 fastball to deposit it into the Mariners bullpen in left center, right above the 376 foot marker on the outfield wall. While Woo was able to get the next batter to line out, Jackson Holliday and Taylor Ward hit back-to-back singles before a Gunnar Henderson walk loaded the bases. That walk was followed by a wild pitch that allowed a run to score. Adley Rutschman would follow that wild pitch with a bases clearing double to set the table for Pete Alonso.
The six runs Baltimore scored in the third inning was enough to win the game, but they would tack on an insurance run in the fifth when Rutschman knocked in Ward from second with a single. Ward had reached base after he was hit on the forearm near the elbow pad by a sinker that got away from Woo. The left fielder advanced to second when Henderson dribbled a grounder to first baseman Josh Naylor.
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Seattle’s bats made the game interesting in the fourth inning when they scored four runs to cut the O’s lead down to one. But manager Craig Albernez went to Tyler Wells at the start of the fifth inning. Wells would sit down the first eight Mariners he faced, and struck out four of them, in three innings pitched. The back end of Baltimore’s bullpen did it’s job after Wells left the game to lock down the two run victory.
Woo had dominated the Orioles through the first two innings as he sat down the first six batters with ease. But his struggles with hard-hit balls this season continued against Baltimore, and Camden Yards is a ballpark that is not friendly to pitchers that give up hard hit fly balls. His final line was 5.0 innings pitched, seven runs (all of them earned), one hit batter, and four strikeouts.
Cole Young had the best night at the plate for the Mariners; he was 3 – 5 with a lead off home run and a pair of singles. The M’s runs were scored on the lead off dinger from Young, a two-run blast from right fielder Luke Raley, a solo shot by Dominic Canzone, and a single by Julio Rodriguez that scored rookie Colt Emerson. But there was very little help from the rest of the lineup as they were unable to dig out of the hole that their starting pitcher dug.
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