The homer traveled an estimated 453 feet.Pedro Baez replaced Maeda immediately after the homer.Baltimore evened the score at 1 in the second when Jonathan Scoop hit into an unusual fielder’s choice to score Mark Trumbo, who led off with a walk and advanced to third on a single by Matt Wieters. His last time out, Maeda held the Brewers to one run on three hits in six innings during an 8-1 win Thursday.
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But there was no comeback in the offing, from a Dodgers offense that stopped to catch its breath after scoring 30 runs during the five-game winning streak. The hitters were a little more comfortable when they were aware of just one pitch.
“There’s really nothing he can’t do on a baseball field, and he’s really continued to get better”, Los Angeles manager Dave Roberts said of Seager. The Dodgers briefly threatened, with Adrian Gonzalez’s leadoff single before Yasiel Puig struck out and pinch-hitter Justin Turner’s long fly was caught at the wall by right fielder Joey Rickard.
Brach struck out the side swinging in the eighth before turning it over to Britton, who hasn’t allowed an earned run in his last 24 games since May 5.
The Orange County native destroyed Dodgers pitching on Wednesday finishing 3-for-4 with two home runs, a double and three runs scored. The rookie retired 10 in a row before giving up three straight singles in the seventh.
Chase Utley finished 6-for-7 with two runs scored, and set a career-high with six hits in one game.
The show began before the Dodgers’ game against the Baltimore Orioles with a female eagle named Anami landing successfully on the field and hopping over to a handler.
LOS ANGELES-The Orioles struck out 18 times, and didn’t get a hit for seven innings of their longest game in almost three years.
Urias has pitched with remarkable poise during his run in the Dodgers’ rotation, seeming to improve nearly on a start-to-start basis. He’s the club’s second rookie shortstop to be selected, joining Bill Grabarkewitz in 1970, and the first shortstop since Rafael Furcal in 2010.
Closer Kenley Jansen joined Seager as a first-time All-Star in his seventh season and is the team’s first reliever to be named since 2010.
The Dodgers have sent teenage pitcher Julio Urias to Triple-A after eight starts in an effort to control his innings.
“I just found some open ground out there”, Utley said of his career-high six hits. The left-hander is 11-2 with a major league-leading 1.79 ERA in 16 starts.
After retiring the side in order in the first inning Monday, however, Urias had the kind of inning that should be expected of a 19-year-old – but the kind he hadn’t really had since his major league debut in NY a little over five weeks ago.
The Orioles will face a familiar face in Wednesday afternoon’s series finale against the Dodgers – a revitalized Bud Norris, who Los Angeles just acquired last week to bolster its starting rotation after ace Clayton Kershaw went on the disabled list. “We missed the big hit, the big run, and a couple breaks going our way”.
“It was the right thing to do”, Roberts said of Showalter’s magnficent move.
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BLUE JAYS 4, ROYALS 2 (at Toronto) – Michael Saunders hit a solo home run in the fourth inning and singled home the winning run in the eighth as the Blue Jays completed a three-game sweep of Kansas City. He pitched for the Orioles from 2013-15, with a 21-20 record and a 4.65 ERA.
