Orioles: Chris Tillman (15-4, 3.46) gets the call after having his start Wednesday pushed back because of a sore right shoulder. Take Baltimore over Houston for another Best Bet victor. Historically bad for Astros starting pitcher Collin McHugh.
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Red Sox 10, Tigers 2: David Ortiz homered, and Rick Porcello (17-3) pitched seven strong innings.
“I couldn’t command the baseball”, Tillman said. “I didn’t locate pitches very well”. “We’ve had a lot of good times, and some not-so-good times, and this will be one of them. I started looking at options about four innings earlier because I knew we had a chance to get there”, Showalter said.
It was the second time this year that Davis homered in at least four consecutive games. George Springer welcomed new pitcher Tyler Wilson with a RBI single bloop to the right side to score A.J. He felt it last Friday morning, a day after his most recent start, an August 11 win over the Oakland Athletics. “You’ve got to be better than that with them”. Evan Gattis followed with a solo shot.
“It’s pretty tough to cover that many runs the last two nights, ” manager Buck Showalter said. And that’s what we saw last night. “You saw his velocity kick up. really towards the end of the first inning”.
After Orioles pitching allowed 15 runs the night before, they were counting on a quality start on Saturday. The lefty is 0-2 with a 7.04 ERA with the Orioles. The Orioles have hit 13 homers in the three games, while Houston has gone deep nine times.
Mark Trumbo and Manny Machado also homered to help the Orioles improve to 40-19 at home and climb into a second-place tie with Boston in the AL East.
He allowed a home run to Jason Castro, his first batter in the ninth.
Baltimore became the first team in the modern era (since 1900) to open a game with four home runs before making an out.
Mets (61-62) at Giants (68-55), 8:05 p.m. ET: A pair of flamethrowers square off as Noah Syndergaard (10-7, 2.76) and the Mets take on Jeff Samardzija (10-8, 4.24) and the Giants. Back-to-back doubles from Alex Bregman and Jose Altuve forced in three more runs. But after a two-home run explosion on Thursday night (his first multi-home run game of the season), Davis now appears to be back on track to surpass the 30 home run plateau for the fourth time in the past five years.
“I was a little bit nervous. I just wanted to get in there and throw strikes and get out of there as quickly as possible”, said Flaherty, who came the first Orioles position player to pitch since Davis against the Red Sox in May 2012. “A couple, too many runs came”. Houston 3B Luis Valbuena (strained right hamstring) had a setback while working out at Camden Yards and was sent back to Houston to be re-evaluated by team doctors.
Bumgarner served up a grand slam to Mets center fielder Justin Ruggiano in the top of the fourth inning, putting the Giants, who entered the game on a four-game losing streak, in a 4-0 hole.
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Orioles veteran right-hander Yovani Gallardo (4-4, 5.18) will toe the rubber for the Orioles as they try to even the series against the Astros on Sunday at 1:35. He will face off against the reigning American League Cy Young award victor Dallas Keuchel. Tillman was charged with six runs on six hits with five walks in two innings.
