{"id":684691,"date":"2026-06-04T22:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T22:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/684691\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T22:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T22:17:08","slug":"orioles-take-the-series-with-an-easy-win-in-boston-8-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/684691\/","title":{"rendered":"Orioles take the series with an easy win in Boston, 8-2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes you eat the road, and sometimes the road eats you. I\u2019m not totally sure how relevant that is to today\u2019s Orioles-Red Sox game, but what I mean is, this was a total inversion of Wednesday\u2019s lopsided, 8-1 loss. As the O\u2019s unsuccessful starter that night, Chris Bassitt<\/a>, said after the game, \u201cWhen your starter goes three innings and gives up three runs, that\u2019s pretty much a recipe for disaster, so this one\u2019s on me.\u201d Today, however, Orioles starter Trevor Rogers<\/a> looked just fine, thanks, and it was a recipe for a win.<\/p>\n

An easy win, at that. Boston<\/a> starter Brayan Bello<\/a> has had a curiously bimodal 2026 season: when he starts games, he has a 9.68 ERA, but he\u2019s under 1.00 when he comes in after an opener. Well, the Sox played with fate, and Bello got rocked in the first inning, to the tune of six runs. It wasn\u2019t much of a nailbiter after that.<\/p>\n

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It started with the leadoff pitch, which leadoff hitter Taylor Ward<\/a> did something predictable to\u2014he doubled\u2014and a Bello cutter hit Gunnar Henderson<\/a> on the foot. Adley Rutschman<\/a> singled to the gap, and Ward made it 1-0. Then, oh no!, Pete Alonso<\/a> hit into a double play. I confess I thought the rally was over.<\/p>\n

I was very wrong. Samuel Basallo<\/a> took a very grown-up walk. Leody Taveras<\/a> singled through the infield and Gunnar scored. 2-0, Birds. Still not done: Colton Cowser<\/a> walked to load the bases for Coby Mayo. Bello threw him a bunch of sweepers\u2014one too many: Cowser skied a ball three-fourths of the way off The Monster, and all the little Orioles came home.<\/p>\n

Baltimore had one more trick up their sleeve, still with two outs: Jackson Holliday<\/a> walked, and leadoff man Taylor Ward came back to the plate, and singled up the middle, his second hit of the inning. 6-0, Orioles, after one.<\/p>\n

Then, an improbable lull\u2014or, a streak, I guess, if you\u2019re in the Brayan Bello fan club. I can\u2019t say many of us on this blog are. The 27-year-old recovered after that disastrous first inning to retire ten Orioles in a row. It was a gutsy effort to get some length for his team, give him that. At one point in the fifth, Brian Roberts, from the booth, said, \u201cYou might think this was a 0-0 game considering how these guys have been pitching since [the first inning].\u201d Ohhh, Classic Roberts. (I have no idea if Brian Roberts is a jinx.) Right then, Pete Alonso singled to left, after which Sam Basallo torched a ball, 112.4 mph to right field. Surprising to me, this was the hardest-hit ball of Basallo\u2019s young career. The Polar Bear chugged home to make it 7-0. Basallo, on third base after a groundout, came home and scored when Cowser hit a deep sac fly. 8-0, Orioles.<\/p>\n

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An 8-0 score tells you that things were going pretty well for Trevor Rogers. The Orioles lefty, who\u2019d struggled in his first ten outings this season but may be turning a corner, had himself an easy shutout through five innings, in fact a no-hitter until into the fifth. His control was pinpoint, and his fastball had movement!<\/p>\n

The only sour note was it looked, if we\u2019re being honest, that he seemed to lose gas after that. He allowed three straight singles in the sixth inning, plus his first run of the game, and he couldn\u2019t close out that frame against the Red Sox<\/a>. Instead, manager Craig Albernaz lifted Rogers for Yennier Cano<\/a>, who got one out and called it a day. Still, overall, progress for Trevor Rogers, who\u2019d had an era of nearly eight on the season: one run in 5 2\/3 innings will do. As MASN pointed out, Rogers now has five-inning-shutout starts in back-to-back appearances.<\/p>\n

Not much suspense after that. Andrew Kittredge<\/a> had a five-outing scoreless streak entering this one, but he served up a home run to Willson Contreras<\/a>. There are worse things one can do. The veteran righty kept it suspense-free after that.<\/p>\n

Any team can look great or terrible on any given day. Yesterday was the Orioles\u2019 turn to be cannon fodder; today they were \u2026 the cannon? Either way, this team been stacking more of the good days instead of the bad days. Let\u2019s see if it continues north of the border against Toronto<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Who is your Most Birdland Player of the game? Trevor Rogers, with a stabilizing outing of 5 2\/3 and one run? Coby Mayo, with a three-run double? Taylor Ward with a casual 3-for-5 day, including a double?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sometimes you eat the road, and sometimes the road eats you. I\u2019m not totally sure how relevant that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[10780,38632,371,8731,47417,37373,376,108398,86976,80666,7949,217696,363,297713,9888,28624,68200,99,79459,85905,12378,92892,2331,7648,246441],"class_list":["post-684691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-adley-rutschman","tag-andrew-kittredge","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-boston","tag-brayan-bello","tag-brian-roberts","tag-chris-bassitt","tag-coby-mayo","tag-colton-cowser","tag-gunnar-henderson","tag-jackson-holliday","tag-leody-taveras","tag-mlb","tag-orioles-red-sox","tag-pete-alonso","tag-red-sox","tag-samuel-basallo","tag-sports","tag-taylor-ward","tag-the-orioles","tag-toronto","tag-trevor-rogers","tag-washington-nationals","tag-willson-contreras","tag-yennier-cano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}