Samuel Basallo hit a go-ahead groundout in the 11th inning as the visiting Baltimore Orioles beat the Boston Red Sox 4-3 to sweep a two-game series on Tuesday night.
The Orioles earned their sixth win in seven games despite being out-hit 8-6. Baltimore’s Ryan Mountcastle and Colton Cowser had a hit and an RBI.
Seven Baltimore pitchers held Boston hitless in 13 at-bats with runners in scoring position.
Yennier Cano (2-6) tossed a scoreless 10th inning and Corbin Martin posted his second save, stranding Nate Eaton on third base in the 11th. Eaton did not try to score on Roman Anthony’s potential sacrifice fly to center for the second out, and Alex Bregman popped out to end the game.
In his first Red Sox start, Nathaniel Lowe hit a game-tying, two-run home run to right in the ninth to force extra innings. However, it was one of three straight frames in which the Red Sox loaded the bases without scoring.
With Boston down 3-1 in the eighth, Connor Wong and Anthony hit back-to-back singles and Bregman walked to fill the bases. Orioles reliever Rico Garcia then entered and struck out the next three batters — Jarren Duran, Trevor Story and Masataka Yoshida — to get out of the jam unscathed.
An inning later, after Lowe’s homer, Boston drew three consecutive walks with two outs, but Yaramil Hiraldo got Story to ground into an inning-ending fielder’s choice.
In the 10th, Cano induced an inning-ending double play from Abraham Toro.
Anthony, Wong and Romy Gonzalez all had two hits for Boston, which has lost three in a row. Garrett Whitlock (5-3) yielded an unearned run in the 11th.
The Red Sox took a 1-0 lead in unique fashion in the third. After hitting a leadoff single and advancing on an error and Anthony’s fielder’s choice grounder, Wong baited Orioles starter Tomoyuki Sugano into a balk by breaking down the third base line toward home plate.
Boston’s Walker Buehler labored through the first four innings, working around six combined baserunners to hold Baltimore scoreless.
In the fifth, Jackson Holliday’s Green Monster-banging double and a Luis Vazquez walk ended the Boston starter’s evening. Justin Wilson recorded the first out in relief, but consecutive RBI hits by Mountcastle and Cowser made it 2-1. A wild pitch by Greg Weissert allowed Mountcastle to score a third run.
Buehler wound up charged with two runs in four-plus innings. Sugano permitted just an unearned run in five innings.
–Field Level Media
