The Orioles recalled LHP Nick Vespi from Triple-A Norfolk.
Orioles: Baltimore put LHP Keegan Akin (lower back discomfort) on the 15-day injured list, retroactive to Thursday. Twins: López was hit by Austin Hays’ comebacker in the second, but stayed in the game. I walked the previous batter, but this count starts 0-0.” “I put men on base without really making the most competitive pitches, but once I loaded the bases I realized, there’s still two outs. “That was the most important inning when it came to either make it or break it,” López said. The Orioles loaded the bases against López in the second thanks to a couple walks, but Cedric Mullins hit a first-pitch flyball to right to end the inning. The start of the game was delayed 1 hour, 26 minutes because of rain. Kremer was pulled after starting the fourth with a walk and a hit batter, and Buxton connected later that inning off Bruce Zimmermann for his 14th homer of the year, a three-run shot that made it 8-0. “I think everyone was locked in on everyone else’s at-bats, really paying attention to everything going on in the game instead of just preparing for their stuff.” “I think everyone went into this game with a little bit of an alternative mindset,” Baldelli said.
After Gallo’s second-inning homer, Alex Kirilloff made it 3-0 with an RBI single in the third. The Twins came through in their very first opportunity in Baltimore - when Royce Lewis hit a broken-bat single to drive in a run in the first.ĭean Kremer (8-4) lasted three-plus innings, allowing seven runs and seven hits.
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Minnesota went 0 for 23 with runners in scoring position in that series at Atlanta. 500, but the Twins moved a game ahead of Cleveland atop the AL Central. López (4-5) allowed a sixth-inning homer to Adley Rutschman for Baltimore’s only run. Gallo hit a solo homer in the second, and Kepler’s two-run shot in the third made it 5-0. We’ve had some good offensive games along the way, but we haven’t tapped into that - what we just saw out there, the true quality and nature of the at-bats that we had.” “The response everyone’s looking for is what we got,” manager Rocco Baldelli said. Joey Gallo, Max Kepler and Byron Buxton homered to help Minnesota break out of its offensive funk, and Pablo López allowed three hits in six innings for the Twins in an 8-1 rout of the Baltimore Orioles on Friday night.Īfter scoring just three runs in a three-game sweep at the hands of the Atlanta Braves - and closing the clubhouse after the finale for a team meeting - the Twins scored in each of the first four innings at Camden Yards. What it does do is put the next game under a microscope. Print.īALTIMORE (AP) - It’s never clear how effective a closed-door meeting will be in baseball.
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