The Orioles entered Tuesday coming off a 10-0 shutout win over the Boston Red Sox however ended it with a place participant pitching the ninth inning as they waved the white flag in a 10-0 dwelling loss to the Seattle Mariners.
In a sport that mirrored Monday night time’s contest in Boston — solely with Baltimore on the dropping finish this time — the Orioles trailed instantly, dug themselves in a deep gap by the third inning and ultimately misplaced in entrance of an introduced crowd of 8,074 on a 92-degree night at Camden Yards.
Right-hander Bryan Baker opened the sport on the mound for the Orioles, simply as he did earlier this month in St. Louis, when he pitched 2 1/3 scoreless innings. This time, nonetheless, he wasn’t as efficient.
His first pitch over the plate was a foul ball that was practically a house run, and he completed his night time permitting three earned runs in 1 1/3 innings. Zac Lowther, known as up Monday from Norfolk after posting an 8.26 ERA at Triple-A, then made his season debut with the Orioles (21-30), who’re with out injured beginning pitcher Spenser Watkins and simply completed a four-day, five-game sequence in Boston that relied closely on the bullpen.
But Lowther, like Baker, was hit laborious, permitting 4 runs within the third inning to place the Orioles behind 8-0. He settled down after that, posting three straight scoreless innings earlier than the Mariners added a run within the seventh on a bloop single by No. 8 hitter Taylor Trammell, who completed 3-for-4 with 4 RBIs.
Orioles supervisor Brandon Hyde praised Lowther for, on the very least, saving the bullpen from intensive use.
“In the third, I didn’t know what we were going to do because if [Lowther] wasn’t gonna last very long, then I was gonna throw a bunch of guys that I didn’t wanna throw in a game like that,” Hyde mentioned. “So for him to go and get a scoreless fourth, fifth and sixth inning, that was big.”
Lowther threw 100 pitches — probably the most the 26-year outdated has thrown in his transient main league profession — and allowed 5 earned runs in 5 1/3 innings.
“I knew coming in that we were a little short-staffed, so trying to chew up those innings and be productive with it,” Lowther mentioned. “I know the first two innings was a little rough for me, but got through three more and was able to kind of save the bullpen a little bit.”
Marcos Diplán then pitched 1 1/3 scoreless innings earlier than the Orioles gave the ball to a place participant for the primary time this yr. Utility participant Chris Owings, whose first pitch was clocked at 49 mph, threw 10 pitches, permitting two hits and one run.
Had the Orioles received, they might’ve completed May with a 15-15 report, which might have marked their first .500 or higher month since July 2019. With the loss, nonetheless, they fell to 14-16 on the month.
Bad breaks for Rutschman
Rookie catcher Adley Rutschman, coming off a two-hit sport in Boston, went hitless in opposition to Seattle starter and fellow 2019 first-round draft decide George Kirby, who pitched six scoreless innings and struck out eight to earn his first main league victory.
“I thought that Kirby was really good,” Hyde mentioned.
Rutschman practically hit his first main league dwelling run within the sixth inning off Kirby when he pulled a pitch deep in the direction of proper subject, however it carried foul. He completed the night time 0-for-4 with three strikeouts, together with on a controversial checked-swing name with runners on first and second within the first inning that the Orioles’ dugout disagreed with.
“We got a bad break there on the check swing that could’ve changed at least the first part of the game,” Hyde mentioned.
Though Rutschman’s batting common has now dipped to .179 by means of 10 profession video games, Hyde praised him earlier than the sport for his protection.
“What he’s done behind the plate, he’s beyond his years already,” Hyde mentioned.
MARINERS@ORIOLES
Wednesday, 7:05 p.m.
TV: MASN2
Radio: 97.9 FM, 101.5 FM, 1090 AM
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Source: www.bostonherald.com