Another challenge for their struggling offense awaits Wednesday when they face red-hot Tommy Milone, who tries to pitch the Minnesota Twins to their first sweep of the Orioles in eight years. But over the past six games, the Orioles’ bats have gone quiet with men on base.
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Dozier hit a two-run home run with one out in the 10th inning to lift the Minnesota Twins to a 4-2 victory over the Baltimore Orioles. The O’s got both of their own runs via the homer, one hit by Jones in the sixth and the other a leadoff home run by Machado to start the game.
Suarez went 3 for 4 with two RBIs to help the Reds snap a three-game skid and improve to 4-0 against Washington this year, clinching the season series. 095 with runners in scoring position, going 4-for-42 in those situations.
Perhaps the worst of them was the seventh inning sequence that chased Hughes from the game. “You realize it’s not just something you dial up because somebody’s out there”. Fryer, 29, has played parts of two seasons previously with the Twins and was hitting. We’re doing a lot of good things to get people out there. The Twins have won four straight games when scoring more than three runs. But he allowed a one-out single to No. 9 hitter Danny Santana in the 10, then fell behind Dozier 2-0 before leaving a 96-mph fastball up.
“He missed with two backup sliders”, Dozier said of Hunter. “Playing in a game like that, you’re trying to get ground balls instead of fly balls”. That’s the ideal situation. Rarely does Sano lose his balance in the batter’s box, and you won’t catch him chasing many pitches outside the strike zone, either.
Nothing good happens after Tommy Hunter goes boom.
Chen struck out five and walked three while pitching seven innings of four-hit ball. Marwin Gonzalez homered and drove in two runs, while Colby Rasmus also had two RBIs. Milone – who returned from a Triple-A stint on June 4 – has a 1.69 ERA in his last five starts, going 2-0 during the stretch.
Torii Hunter answered with a 411-foot (125m) shot off Orioles starter Chen Wei-Yin of Taiwan in the bottom of the first.
Center fielder Hicks put the Twins up 2-1 in the second on a solo homer into the bullpen area in left-center field.
Will Sano’s first major-league home run come at Target Field this week? “But I think we’ve been encouraged by the walks he’s been taking…He’s shown a nice combination of being aggressive and yet working the count”. However, Adam Jones tied it with a drive high off the left field foul pole in the sixth.
Gibson held the Orioles to two runs over six innings. He threw one pitch to Jimmy Paredes, and he hit into a double play. This game will feature Jimenez (RHP) on the mound against the Twins, who have a 25-28 record when they take on a right-handed starter.
Andrew McCutchen started the winning rally with a one-out walk off Brandon Maurer (5-2), moved to second on Jung Ho Kang’s singled, took third on Francisco Cervelli’s fly out and scored when Alvarez grounded up a single up the middle.
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“We’ve got to keep grinding”, Machado said.
