Dean Kremer pitched well enough to win today for the Baltimore Orioles at a Wrigley Field. It wasn’t spectacular, but it’s not always going to be. However if you can win enough of the “so-so starts,” you’re going to have a good season. So far Kremer and the Birds are doing just that. Kremer’s line: 5.0 IP, 3 R, 3 H, 2 BB, 7 K.
It didn’t start out so hot. Tauchman, who’s burned the O’s all weekend, smacked the first pitch Kremer threw on the game out of the ballpark. Certainly it’s fair to say that Kremer limited the damage, which is good. However he put the O’s in the hole until the fourth when Anthony Santander hit a solo shot of his own, tying the game at one.
And in fact, the O’s took the lead later in the inning when Ramon Urias smacked an RBI-single. But Chicago wasn’t going anywhere either. In the bottom of the inning Morel hit a two-run home run, giving Chicago their lead back at 3-2.
However keep in mind that the Birds haven’t been swept in over a year – which is amazing if you think about it. And they weren’t about to make this time moment to end that streak. Urias tied the game back up in the sixth with a sac fly-RBI, and suddenly we had a new ballgame.
Later in that sixth inning the O’s got a runner on scoring position, and Adam Frazier’s RBI-single put them back in the lead at 4-3. Jorge Mateo would add an RBI-single of his own (before being thrown out at second base), extending the lead to 5-3. Tack on an Adley Rutschman RBI-double in the ninth, and the O’s head to Tampa with a 6-3 win in Wrigleyville.
The O’s did have to send catcher James McCann to the IL before the game. Manager Brandon Hyde said that he’s hopeful it’ll only be a ten-day stint. McCann injured himself running out a grounder at first base yesterday afternoon.
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