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05/02 15:58 CDT Mouncastle and Mateo propel Orioles to 7-2 win over Yankees in
series clincher
Mouncastle and Mateo propel Orioles to 7-2 win over Yankees in series clincher
By IAN NICHOLAS QUILLEN
Associated Press
BALTIMORE (AP) --- Ryan Mountcastle and Jorge Mateo each homered and drove in
two runs to lift the Baltimore Orioles to a series-deciding 7-2 victory over
the New York Yankees on Thursday.
Ryan McKenna also connected and Jordan Westburg's two-run triple helped the
Orioles complete a four-run fifth to chase Yankees starter Carlos Rodn (2-2)
and secure a third win of the four-game set, the first this season between
likely AL East contenders.
Righty Kyle Bradish allowed one run in 4 2/3 innings in his first start after
beginning the season on the 15-day injured list with a UCL strain. Keegan Akin
(1-0) retired four batters while allowing a run in middle relief.
"That might've been our best pitched series honestly," said Baltimore manager
Brandon Hyde, whose staff allowed six runs across those games. "From the starts
we got to how the bullpen pitched against a really good offense."
Gleyber Torres hit his first home run but also made the Yankees' third error of
the series to help extend the game's decisive inning.
"He's got to secure the ball," Yankees manager Aaron Boone said of Torres, who
dropped the ball trying to barehand shortstop Anthony Volpe's feed on a
potential double play. "He's made that play a lot. Didn't in that spot."
Rodn yielded all seven Baltimore runs --- six earned --- on eight hits in his
shortest outing of 2024.
He escaped his bases-loaded, no-out jam in the second before Mountcastle's solo
shot in the third, and Mateo's and McKenna's in the fourth.
"Just being aggressive," McKenna said of the Orioles' adjustments. "I think
guys started taking pitchers' pitches against him, started barrelling up some
more."
After Mountcastle singled in another run in the fifth, Anthony Santander
grounded the potential double-play ball that Torres' gaffe turned into a
two-on, none-out situation.
A visit from pitching coach Matt Blake followed, but Westburg drove Rodn's 2-1
slider down the middle to the base of the wall in left-center to plate both
runners, then came home on Mateo's sacrifice fly off newly entered reliever Ron
Marinaccio.
"I thought we had (Adley) Rutschman struck out, and then we don't turn the
double play there," Boone said of the inning.
Bradish threw 51 of 84 pitches for strikes in his return from a rehab
assignment that ended more quickly than some expected.
The fourth-place finisher in the 2023 AL Cy Young vote escaped a bases-loaded,
two-out jam in the first and left with runners on the corners in the fifth
before Akin induced Anthony Rizzo into a popout to short.
"I think this clubhouse is pretty excited to get someone of that caliber back
on the field," Orioles catcher James McCann said.
TRAINERS ROOM Yankees: LF Alex Verdugo returned to the lineup and batted sixth after missing three games on the paternity list. ... Optioned C Carlos Narvaez to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. Orioles: Activated Bradish and designated RHP Yohan Ramirez. ... With Bradish making Thursday's start, LHP John Means (forearm strain) will make his first start of the season on Saturday after he was activated from the injured list on Wednesday. ... OF Austin Hays (left calf strain) took batting practice and did on-field drills and could go on a rehab assignment soon, Hyde said. UP NEXT Yankees: RHP Marcus Stroman (2-1, 3.69) looks to rebound from a four-inning outing --- his shortest of the season --- in the opener of a six-game homestand Friday night against Detroit. Orioles: RHP Cole Irvin (2-1, 3.49) tries to extend his stretch of 14 1/3 scoreless innings when Baltimore begins a five-game road trip at Cincinnati on Friday night. ___ AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb |
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