Baltimore Orioles’ starter Jack Flaherty “got rocked” as they say. This in San Diego last night. The good news for the O’s is that Tampa lost in San Francisco, so the Birds maintained their three-game lead in the AL East. Flaherty’s line: 3.0 IP, 4 H, 7 R, 4 BB, 3 K.
Flaherty loaded the bases in the first inning, and walked Cronensworth to give San Diego a 1-0 lead. However the bases remained loaded, and Sanchez’s grand slam opened the game wide open. San Diego led, 5-0.
Machado’a softly-hit bloopper turned into a two-RBI double in the second extended that lead to 7-0. Two doubles, one by Cooper and one by Gamel (a two-RBI double) rounded out the scoring by San Diego in the game. Needless to say, it wasn’t the Orioles’ day.
The Birds did eat into that lead, however. Cedric Mullins’ RBI-single in the sixth got the on the board. Austin Hays also smacked a solo homer, and Gunnar Henderson an RBI-single. Those last two in the ninth. In the end the Birds fell, 10-3 in the middle game in San Diego. This setting up a rubber match.
The series concludes this evening at Petco Park. Dean Kremer gets the start for the O’s, and he’ll be opposed by San Diego’s Blake Snell. Game time is set for 8:40 PM.
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