The third inning got Corbin Burnes and the Baltimore Orioles last night at Dodger Stadium. However keep in mind, Los Angeles is one of the best teams in the league – so are the Orioles. Neither side is going to go quietly, which is why this series looms so large. Burnes’ line: 5.0 IP, 5 H, 6 R (1 earned), 0 BB, 4 K.
This caps off a tough August for Corbin Burnes. He took another loss of course, however you’ll notice that only one of those six runs were earned. The Oriole defense committed a season-high three errors behind him. The lone earned run he surrendered was on a solo homer to Ohtani to lead off the game.
The Ons battled back in the second, with Ramon Urias smacking a two-RBI double. James McCann added an RBI-single, and the Birds actually held a 3-1 lead. However in the third Urias would turn around and commit an error, which cost Burnes a run due to Mookie Betts’ run-scoring single.
Following two more errors later in the inning, Hernandez smacked a three-run homer against Burnes, who was within a strike of getting out of the inning. All three of those runs were unearned. All three of those runs are unearned, a costly James McCann error extended the inning to even get to that spot in the order.
The O’s tried to come back in the fifth. Ryan O’Hearn’s RBI-double cut the lead to 5-4. However a Gunnar Henderson error scored a run in the bottom of the inning, and the O’s fell on this night, 6-4. Luckily for the O’s, it doesn’t hurt them too much as New York lost in Washington earlier in the night.
End of the day Los Angeles took advantage of the Orioles’ errors. And in Mookie Betts and Teoscar Hernandez, it was two former “AL Easter’s” who did some of the damage. Two former AL East guys who tormented the Birds when they were in the division.
The series concludes this evening at Dodger Stadium. Cade Povich gets the start for the O’s, and he’ll be opposed by Los Angeles’ Bobby Miller. Game time is set for just after 10 PM.
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