For merely the second time this season, the Orioles have misplaced three straight video video games.
After a 1-hour, 26-minute rain delay, starting pitcher Dean Kremer was crushed, Baltimore’s bats mustered solely 4 hits and the Orioles misplaced, 8-1, to the Minnesota Twins at Camden Yards.
Kremer, who entered Friday tied for the workers lead with eight wins, was bombarded by the Twins, who scored in all 4 innings the right-hander pitched. In three-plus innings, Kremer surrendered seven runs as his ERA ballooned from 4.50 to 5.04.
Austin Hays recorded two hits to boost his batting widespread to .316, nonetheless the rest of the Orioles’ lineup managed merely two hits in direction of starter Pablo López and Minnesota’s bullpen. Baltimore’s lone run bought right here off the bat of Adley Rutschman, whose extreme fly ball inside the sixth barely cleared the right space wall.
The seven-run margin of defeat is tied for Baltimore’s fourth-largest of the season. Three of their 5 worst losses have embrace the Orioles carrying their Metropolis Join uniforms, the model new threads they placed on Friday nights at residence. They’re 1-4 and have been outscored 40-10 inside the uniforms.
The noncompetitive sport was one in every of many Orioles’ most-attended at Camden Yards this season. With the favored floppy hat giveaway and a postgame stay efficiency by DJ Diesel (aka Shaquille O’Neal), an launched attendance of 34,792 — the membership’s fifth-highest of the 12 months — witnessed the drubbing.
The series-opening loss follows two straight defeats versus the Cincinnati Reds on Tuesday and Wednesday. The ultimate time the Orioles misplaced three straight video video games was Could 6-8 after they dropped two to the Atlanta Braves and one different to the Tampa Bay Rays. They adopted that minor dropping skid by worthwhile 4 straight and 11 of their subsequent 15.
After their win Monday, the Orioles had been 19 video video games over .500 for the first time since 2014. Now, Baltimore is 48-32 and nearer to fourth place inside the American League East (4 1/2 video video games up) than of catching first-place Tampa Bay (six video video games once more).
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Twins at Orioles
Saturday, 4:05 p.m.
TV: MASN2
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