Orioles walk off to end losing streak
With bases loaded, Severino singles to dispatch Red Sox
ORIOLES 5, RED SOX 4 (10)
Despite three straight walks from closer Cole Sulser leading to a run in the top half of the inning, the Orioles kept the deficit at one and rallied for a 5-4 victory in the bottom of the 10th to beat the Boston Red Sox on Saturday at Camden Yards, snapping the home team’s six-game losing streak.
Facing a five-man infield with the bases loaded, Pedro Severino singled into an empty center field, scoring Cedric Mullins to end the game and give the Orioles (13-14) their first win of the four-game series.
With two outs in the eighth, Anthony Santander extended his hitting streak to 17 games when he rifled a two-run home down the left-field line to tie the game. With an exit velocity of 109.5 mph and a projected distance of 426 feet, it was the Orioles’ hardest and farthest home run of 2020, per Statcast. It was also Santander’s 10th of the season, a total matched by only San Diego’s Fernando Tatis Jr., Los Angeles’ Mike Trout and the New York Yankees’ Luke Voit.
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The shot and the accompanying bat toss energized what had been another quiet night for the Orioles lineup. Pat Valaika’s secondinning home run, his third in as many games, put them on the board against Boston’s Martín Pérez. In Valaika’s second chance against him with two outs and a runner on second in the fourth, he smacked a single into left, but Renato Núñez was easily thrown out at home when third-base coach José Flores waved him home despite the ball being in left fielder Alex Verdugo’s glove before Núñez reached third.
The Orioles wasted a threat in the seventh, and it seemed as if they would go quietly in the eighth before Hanser Alberto, with four hits in his previous 27 at-bats, drew a rare walk with two outs, bringing up Santander.
A pair of firsts
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