The Orioles lead the majors with 224 home runs after their four-homer outburst.Ubaldo Jiminez (7-11) won his second consecutive start, holding the Tigers to two runs on four hits with four strikeouts over seven innings.Detroit starter Jordan Zimmermann lasted just one-plus inning in his first start since coming off the 15-day disabled list.
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Another sequence that didn’t have to happen led to fifth inning Detroit runs.
Bourn became the 15th different Oriole to homer this season, and it was somewhat surprising. Even though we’re not in October yet, this will undoubtedly be a playoff atmosphere-type series with both teams fighting for their right to party play in the postseason.
“I was awful tonight, so this loss is on me”, he said.
“Ultimately, it was just that one goal, getting a W”.
“They got him once, twice, three times”, said closer Francisco Rodriguez, who recorded his 40th save of the season. The Orioles, who moved a game ahead of Detroit in the race for the American League’s second wild-card spot, have gone deep 224 times. Gausman struck out Victor Martinez for the second out but J.D. Martinez bounced a single up the middle, knocking in Jose Iglesias and Kinsler for a 3-0 lead.
“You can’t play this game when you are not healthy”, he said that day. That’s something which would come to haunt them a bit later on.
However as we all know, that’s part of the game. They are the team in front of us and we know they have a great offence and a great bullpen. “Hopefully tomorrow we can come fresh again, come strong again, because every single game from now on will be extremely important”. Detroit will start LHP Daniel Norris, LHP Matt Boyd and RHP Anibal Sanchez for the first three contests of a four-game series against Minnesota that begins on Monday.
But he was sharp Friday before a crowd of 32,140 at Comerica Park and needed to be in a pitching battle with Baltimore right-hander Kevin Gausman, who came into the game having not allowed a run in 19 straight innings.
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“Any lead early is a boost of confidence”, Fulmer said. You have to pitch to the strike zone, and once he settled down Gausman was able to do that and to turn in a quality start. Taking a loss against Houston his last time up, Tillman lasted just two innings with six hits and six earned. Cameron Rupp hit a three-run homer off Koda Glover to knot the score in the eighth.
The Tigers got one run back in the bottom of the first on J.D. Martinez’s RBI single.
Rick Porcello pitched seven innings to become the first 20-game victor in the majors, Hanley Ramirez hit a three-run homer and Boston increased its AL East lead to two games by routing Toronto.
“It’s pretty embarrassing to go out there and give up six innings in one-plus innings”, he said. “Just a hanging, spinning slider to Schoop”.
Adam Jones and Chris Davis homered in the first inning off Zimmermann (9-6), and Matt Wieters connected in the second and sixth innings. He struck out seven and walked two.
Detroit left fielder Justin Upton reached up at the wall in the third to take a possible homer away from Hyun Soo Kim.
Michael Bourn pinch ran for Kim and scored nearly immediately: Adam Jones ripped a single into left field to score the tying run.
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“I thought one of his best innings was the last inning”, Showalter said.
