BALTIMORE (AP) — Orioles manager Brandon Hyde can now fill out a lineup with all kinds of diverse combos.
Lately, everything’s been doing the job for Baltimore.
“We just have a good deal of selections,” Hyde said. “When you have 5 men on the bench and you have numerous switch-hitters and you have proper-remaining situations, I have way a lot more solutions than I have ever experienced prior to.”
Gunnar Henderson homered to commence a two-operate seventh inning for Baltimore, and the Orioles rallied from an early 4-run deficit to get their seventh straight activity, 6-5 over the Miami Marlins on Saturday night.
Anthony Santander place Baltimore in advance with an RBI single afterwards in the seventh, and the Orioles are only two video games driving Tampa Bay atop the AL East, even by the Rays swept a doubleheader at Kansas Metropolis.
Baltimore has matched a season substantial with its winning streak, which is the longest active operate in the big leagues.
The Orioles are carrying only 12 pitchers at the instant, this means there are five hitters on the bench at Hyde’s disposal. He utilised a few of them Saturday and also moved starters about as the match progressed. Henderson commenced at 3rd foundation — he made a big barehanded participate in on the slow roller to save a operate in the fifth — and inevitably moved to shortstop.
Miami opened the scoring with 4 runs in the next, but the Orioles straight away answered with three in the base 50 percent. The Marlins led 5-4 in the seventh when Henderson sent the to start with pitch from reliever Huascar Brazoban (3-2) to deep suitable subject for his 14th homer.
“We fully grasp that no make a difference what the score is, we can arrive back and we can string jointly a great deal of fantastic at-bats,” Henderson mentioned.
Brazoban permitted hits to 4 of his five hitters. Austin Hays, Adley Rutschman and Santander strike consecutive one particular-out singles to set the Orioles forward. Yennier Cano pitched the eighth for Baltimore, and Félix Bautista labored a fantastic ninth for his 25th preserve in 30 odds.
Mike Baumann (6-) received in aid.
The Marlins fell to 21-7 in a person-run video games this year.
Miami’s Luis Arraez experienced 4 hits to raise his common to .386, and Marlins outfielders Dane Myers and Jesús Sánchez were being equipped to stay in the recreation after a scary outfield collision in the to start with.
Miami starter Braxton Garrett permitted four runs and six hits in 4 2/3 innings, and Baltimore’s Kyle Gibson yielded five operates and nine hits in 5 1/3 innings.
Gibson authorized 4 straight singles to commence the 2nd, and the final two by Jean Segura and Joey Wendle drove in a operate apiece. Just one out later on, Myers hit a grounder to 2nd, and rookie Jordan Westburg’s toss household was not in time to get Segura coming in from third.
Arraez made it 4- with an RBI solitary.
The Orioles rapidly rebounded. Cedric Mullins hit an RBI single and then, after Mullins exited with suitable quad tightness, Jorge Mateo hit a line travel to heart that Myers misplayed into a triple when he commenced relocating in on the ball and authorized it to sail around his head.
“You question any middle fielder, the hardest read through is the line drive correct at you,” Marlins supervisor Skip Schumaker said. “He hasn’t performed many games out there. It’s just the truth, and challenging read.”
Bryan De La Cruz hit a sacrifice fly in the fourth to make it 5-3, but Santander answered with a operate-scoring single in the fifth to chase Garrett.
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Jackson Holliday, baseball’s No. 1-ranked prospect according to MLB Pipeline, has five hits by way of his first two online games at Double-A with Baltimore’s Bowie affiliate.
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The Orioles send Kyle Bradish (5-4) to the mound for the closing recreation of the sequence Sunday. Miami’s Steven Okert (3-) will serve as an opener.
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