By Zachary McMahon –
The Baltimore Orioles hosted the Philadelphia Phillies in the series opener on Friday night at Camden Yards in Baltimore. The Phillies have lost the last two games against the Boston Red Sox, while the Orioles lost the series finale against the Atlanta Braves on Thursday.
Kyle Bradish went for the O’s going five innings, with three hits, two earned runs, a walk, and four strikeouts. Meanwhile, Ranger Suarez went for the Phillies, going 6 ⅔ innings, allowing six hits, one earned run, two walks, and six strikeouts.
Kyle Scwarber, for the second series opener in a row hits a leadoff homer in the first as
Philadelphia jumped out to a 1-0 lead. Adley Rutschman tied it up at one with an RBI double that scored Cedric Mullins home in the third. Rafael Marchan, who was called up from the Lehigh Valley IronPigs four days prior hit his first homer of the season, which was a solo shot that gave the Phillies back the lead in the fifth, 2-1.
The teams continued to trade runs, as Anthony Santander homered to left field to tie the game up at eight. Jose Alvarado and former Phillies closer Craig Kimbrel both shut down the offenses in the ninth to go into extra innings.
In the tenth, Scwarber had his second RBI of the game, when he brought home Edmundo Sosa, who reached on an infield single to make it 3-2. This was the third game out of the last four that Scwarber had a multi-RBI game.
The O’s tied it back up in the bottom half off a wild pitch from Orion Kekering, in which Mullins scored the tying run, saving the game for the O’s if they were not going to win it in the tenth with Jordan Westburg now at third. Santander flew out while it was two outs, and they go into the 11th.
While the Phillies were up, Whit Merrifield pinch ran for Scwarber as the ghost runner. After a pop out by Nick Castellanos and an intentional walk to Bryce Harper to try to get the double play, Alec Bohm hit a two-run double that scored both runners for a 5-3 lead.
Serathony Dominguez came in for Philly for the save, and he struck out the final two batters in Colton Cowser, who pinch hit for Jorge Mateo, and Kyle Stowers, who pinch hit for James McCann, as the Orioles would lose the opening game of the series to the Phillies in 11 innings, 5-3.
Both teams will play the second game of the series on Saturday at 4:07 pm as it will be Grayson Rodriguez going up against Tijuan Walker on the mound.
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