Tomoyuki Sugano played seven strong innings as Baltimore Oriols defeated hosts Seattle Meriners 5–1 in a three-game series opener.
Colton Cowser prepared for Baltimore, who won his fourth consecutive game and for the seventh time in his last nine.
Rowdy went deep for the tails the mericars, which fell half the game behind Houston in the American League West Race.
Sugano (5-3), a right-handed player allowed a run on a walk and five hits with five strikeouts.
Sugano’s only mistake came with two outs in the second innings, when Telles launched 1-0 curveballs, which was 404 feet away from the plate, to tie 1-1 on the second deck in the T-Mobile Park on the second deck from the cafe from the hits of the hit.
Oriols first took a 1-0 lead, as Adle Rutsman, Gunnar Henderson and Ryan O’Harn sang with one to load one and Ramon Ureius blew up a sacrifice into the right area.
Baltimore re -achieved the lead in similar fashion in the fifth, as Rutsman, Henderson and O’Harn all single -handed, later brought the house run. The innings ended with a intimidation as Urias brought back a ball on the face of Meriners Starter George Kirby (0-3). To the right, his pitching hand found his hand to deflect the ball slightly, before he would hit him in the mouth. The ball was first taken to Basman Tellez, who stepped on the bag to end the innings. Kirby was bleeding from her mouth as soon as she came out of the field.
Kirby made his third start after the start of the season in the injured list with swelling in his right shoulder, went to five innings and gave two runs on eight hits, with a walk and three strikeouts.
Cowser put it 3–1 to reach the sixth position with a drive in Meriners Bulpen from Eduard Bazardo at the left-center.
Oriols added a pair of insurance to the Colein snider in the ninth. Kobi Mayo led Singal and Heston Kejerstad reiterated the RBI to the right. With one, Jackson Holiday put a single at the center to plate the final run of the game.
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