Even with out the wet situations that enveloped Sunday’s sequence finale between the Orioles and Boston Red Sox, Baltimore has not performed its greatest protection this season at Fenway Park.
The development continued within the Orioles’ ultimate sport this yr within the iconic ballpark, a sloppy 7-3 loss that ended their seven-game profitable streak because the Red Sox dodged a sweep. Five of the runs Baltimore (90-52) allowed have been unearned. After going greater than a month with out making a number of errors, the Orioles have completed so in consecutive video games, with Sunday marking their third contest with a minimum of three. Four of their 11 video games this season with multiple error have been in Boston. In all, they made 10 errors in six video games at Fenway Park.
The loss, paired with the Tampa Bay Rays’ victory over the Seattle Mariners, diminished Baltimore’s lead within the American League East to 3 video games with 20 contests to play. The Orioles entered the day with their magic quantity to clinch a playoff spot at 5, with the likelihood they clinch their first berth since 2016 throughout their upcoming homestand towards the St. Louis Cardinals and the Rays.
“Unfortunately, we just didn’t play very well today,” supervisor Brandon Hyde stated. “We just went 7-2 on a trip. Didn’t play very well on the first one. Didn’t play very well on the last one. We played seven excellent games and super happy and proud of what we did on this trip. Not easy to go to Arizona, Anaheim and then to Boston, three totally different climate conditions, stadiums and play extremely well on the trip. Today just wasn’t our best day, but really happy with how we’ve been playing.”
Sunday’s contest started after a 42-minute rain delay and went on whilst droplets fell till the underside of the eighth inning, when one other delay started. After one other 88 minutes, the sport resumed. Right-hander Joey Krehbiel coated the body’s three outs across the stoppage and stranded a runner at third base after a throwing error from catcher Adley Rutschman.
Boston (73-70) scored the sport’s ultimate seven runs after Baltimore scored three runs within the second on an infield single by Aaron Hicks and a two-run triple from Adam Frazier. A fielding error from Gold Glove third baseman Ramón Urías led to 2 unearned runs within the third inning off rookie right-hander Grayson Rodriguez, who gave up hits to 3 of the primary 4 batters within the fourth because the Red Sox took a 4-3 lead.
Rodriguez exited with one out within the fifth, his first time failing to finish that body in 10 begins since rejoining the Orioles’ rotation in mid-July after a return to Triple-A. The 23-year-old has a 2.95 ERA in that point, averaging slightly below six innings per begin, after posting a 7.35 ERA in his first 10 begins. Hyde praised how he dealt with the very fact it was raining all through his outing.
“They were some different conditions,” Rodriguez stated. “I felt like my first time in Fenway would have been a little bit drier, but it’s just something that you have to deal with.”
Cole Irvin stranded a runner on Rodriguez’s account to finish the fifth, however first baseman Ryan O’Hearn’s fielding error prolonged the sixth, resulting in Tristan Casas’ three-run dwelling run that broke the sport open. It was the one hit Irvin allowed in 2 2/3 innings.
Rodriguez, who has usually credited his improved confidence in his second main league stint partially to the protection behind him, stated Sunday’s displaying was atypical.
“I don’t expect that to really happen again,” he stated. “Obviously, our defense has been one of our better things about this team. It’s just one of those days. Obviously, field conditions weren’t right, so it makes it really tough on them. A lot of wet baseballs, a lot of weird bounces. That’s not something that you should expect from them.”
The Orioles’ offense hardly ever threatened after the second inning, hanging out 9 instances whereas getting just one at-bat with a runner in scoring place. Frazier was thrown out at second making an attempt to increase a single to open the fifth inning, and after Rutschman doubled with two outs, Gunnar Henderson popped out. Baltimore didn’t file a success over the ultimate 4 innings, leaving the group three shy of extending its streak of seven video games with double-digit hits.
“We just didn’t play our best baseball all around,” Hyde stated.
Cardinals at Orioles
Monday, 6:35 p.m.
TV: MASN
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