Shintaro Fujinami, the Orioles’ lone bullpen addition forward of Tuesday’s commerce deadline, brings super upside. Wednesday’s outing confirmed his draw back.
Inheriting two runners from Grayson Rodriguez with two outs within the sixth of Baltimore’s matchup with the Toronto Blue Jays, Fujinami issued a four-pitch stroll, then hit consecutive batters, permitting each of Rodriguez’s runners to attain earlier than an error by shortstop Jorge Mateo introduced in one other. The three scores in a hitless inning offered the ultimate margin in Baltimore’s 4-1 defeat on the Rogers Centre.
At the price of sending No. 30 prospect Easton Lucas to the Oakland Athletics, Fujinami was a tantalizing acquisition for the Orioles (66-42), together with his high-velocity fastball and depraved splitter making him an attractive choice so as to add to supervisor Brandon Hyde’s All-Star late-inning tandem of Yennier Cano and Félix Bautista. But the right-hander has at instances struggled to harness his devastating stuff, seemingly needing to settle into his outings. Including Wednesday’s efficiency, the primary two batters to face Fujinami throughout his first six appearances with Baltimore have gone 1-for-6 with a house run whereas strolling 5 instances and getting hit as soon as.
Rodriguez allowed two hits, one run and no walks by means of 5 2/3 innings earlier than issuing consecutive free passes. Fujinami entered and threw 4 straight balls to load the bases earlier than his fifth pitch hit Matt Chapman. After a mound go to, Fujinami bought forward 0-2 on Danny Jansen, then hit him, too. He appeared to get out of it with a floor ball proper to Mateo, however he booted the ball to permit one other run to attain.
Ryan Mountcastle continued to have success since coming off the injured checklist with two singles and two walks, accounting for nearly half of the 9 instances an Oriole reached base Wednesday.
Around the horn
- Orioles nearer Félix Bautista was named the AL Reliever of the Month for the third time. In July, he didn’t enable a run over 14 innings, placing out 25 of 48 batters confronted. “He’s just been unbelievable,” Brandon Hyde.
- Baltimore promoted outfielder Dylan Beavers, its No. 22 prospect in keeping with Baseball America, to Double-A Bowie. The No. 33 decide in final yr’s draft, Beavers went 2-for-4 with a double together with his Baysox debut Wednesday.
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Orioles at Blue Jays
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