J.J. Hardy recorded a hit in four at-bats and is 6-for-16 with five RBIs over his last four contests.TV: 3:10 p.m. ET, MASN (Baltimore), SportsNet LA (Los Angeles)PITCHING MATCHUP: Orioles RH Kevin Gausman (1-6, 3.97 ERA) vs. Dodgers RH Bud Norris (4-7, 3.89)Gausman was unable to ride the momentum from his first victory of the season as he suffered his third loss in four starts Friday at Seattle.
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The Baltimore Orioles look for back-to-back wins for the first time this season. The Orioles had 12 strikeouts in nine innings. “Especially when it gets to 13, 14, 15 or more”. Everyone is pretty spent usually.
Two batters later, Schoop stroked a 1-0 pitch into shallow left-center field that Thompson failed to catch on a dive. It was Schoop’s lone hit.
“I just found some open ground out there”, Utley said of his career-high six hits. “I found a mechanical [motion] that I really need to continue to work on as far as direction and it’s really kind taken off. It’s definitely a new pitch, but it’s been there”.
Norris is throwing the cutter 8.6 percent of the time this season, up from 1.31 percent last season. “I got some big outs with that pitch, but now I’ve found out how confident I am in it and how many more I can throw in the game”.
Orioles manager Buck Showalter joked about the length of the 5-hour, 26-minute game, fourth-longest in Dodger Stadium history.
“Tillman was mixing in the breaking ball, changing speed, kept us off balance, limited baserunners”, Roberts said.
TIGERS 12, INDIANS 2 (at Cleveland) – Nick Castellanos had three hits, including a three-run homer, and tied his career high with five RBI to lead Detroit and stop the Indians’ home winning streak at 13.
“I just have a lot more confidence in that pitch”, Norris said.
With one out, Machado singled off Chris Hatcher (5-4), and Davis, who was 0-5 with four strikeouts, singled. Manager Dave Roberts said Wednesday that Kershaw has been exercising and his latest clearance is “exciting and encouraging”.
“From the first inning on, it seemed like Kenta was laboring”, Roberts said. Utley hit a double with one out and Seager drew a walk right after. Yasmani Grandal was intentionally walked to load the bases before Hatcher’s groundout ended the marathon. One was a first-inning double by Corey Seager, extending the newly-minted All-Star’s hitting streak to 18 games.
The Dodgers ran out of position players in the 13th, sending pitcher Scott Kazmir to bat for reliever Louis Coleman and he grounded out.
Jonathan Schoop: Game-winning, two-run single. The rookie retired 10 in a row before giving up three straight singles in the seventh. Both events put two runners on base for their teams, though both rallies died on the vine. Maeda walked the next batter, bringing up Machado with two on and none out in a 1-1 game. Dodgers third baseman Justin Turner was playing on the right side of the infield and with no one covering third on the defensive shift, Machado advanced two bases.
Gausman gave up two runs in the fifth when Gonzalez’s sinking liner was just in front of Jones in center, and the Dodgers went ahead 4-3. Showalter would pass not only Hall of Famer Wilbert Robinson for 28th all-time but also Paul Richards for second place on the Orioles’ career list…. After Machado’s home run, the bullpen combined to allow just two more hits over five scoreless innings. He struck out a pair and worked around a two-out walk to put another zero on the board.
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Chris Tillman’s strong seven-inning effort Tuesday night set up Baltimore for its second series win on the trip despite having an overall losing record due to the lack of consistent pitching, having surrendered 51 runs in their first seven games against the Padres, Mariners and Dodgers.
