He allowed two runs and seven hits in six innings with no walks and six strikeouts. He’s batting.426 with 12 homers and 18 RBI in 11 games against the Orioles this season.
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Boston Red Sox’s Mookie Betts, right, celebrates his two-run home run with David Ortiz, left, during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016, in Baltimore.
It must be noted that the Orioles and Red Sox occupy the two AL wild card spots right now, but the Mariners are only two games back.
After a road trip that saw a promising ending, the Orioles returned home to start an eight game home stand.
Eduardo Rodriguez was flawless through four innings, but had to leave in the fifth due to injury.
Barnes walked Mark Trumbo with one out in the seventh, and Pearce hit a dribbler that Xander Bogaerts couldn’t catch up with, and he reached with on the infield single. The only run he allowed came on a second-inning homer by Chris Davis.
David Price only allowed one run over his six innings Wednesday night.
Price has faced Toronto, San Francisco, Texas, New York and Baltimore (twice) since June.
Pitchers can get away with a high BABIP when their home run totals are low, like Noah Syndergaard this season, but Price has given up 20 home runs in 163 2/3 innings this year. As it was, the club didn’t land in Detroit until around 3 a.m. ET. This is where’s Ross’ “freakish” description fits best: In five games in Baltimore, Betts is 10-for-21 (.476) with seven of those hits leaving the yard. Fans showed their appreciation with a long cheer before he struck out in the first inning at Citizens Bank Park. Boston’s combined no-hit bid was broken up in the seventh inning. The Blue Jays and Orioles square off six more times, including a three-game series in the final week. Before this defeat, Baltimore was in first or second place since opening day.
Kang homered off reliever Derek Law (4-2) one pitch after Andrew McCutchen was thrown out attempting to steal second base.
Antonio Bastardo (1-0) retired three batters for his first win since August 7, 2015.
Instead, the lineup went right back to work, again with two outs.
CUBS 4, BREWERS 0, GAME 1: Trevor Cahill came off the disabled list to pitch five two-hit innings for host Chicago in his first start in almost 16 months. Marc Rzepczynski came on and the A’s opted to intentionally walk Adrian Beltre, reloading the bases.
The Cubs extended their NL Central lead by winning both games of the double-header against Milwaukee, 4-0 in the opener and 4-1 in the night game.
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Price (11-8) was cruising until a driving storm stopped play, and the game was finally called after a delay of 1 hour, 17 minutes. Game time is set for just after 7 PM. But I’ve never seen anything like this, where it was like night and day – boom, boom, boom. The Red Sox will try to ride Betts to a sweep of the brief two-game series when they visit the Orioles on Wednesday.Betts has seven home runs in five games at Baltimore this season, including a three-run shot and a two-run blast on Tuesday that accounted for all of Boston’s runs in the 5-3 triumph. The Sox are also in a very heated race in the AL East, which could also lead them to ride the streak to the full potential and try to slide into the 1st position in the division. It’s Tuesday. If a player hit five home runs and 13 RBIs in a month, they’d probably consider it a solid month.
