Baltimore Orioles fall as Kevin Gausman struggles in Boston

Kevin Gausman lasted only three innings and gave up six runs as the Baltimore Orioles fell 6-4 to Boston at Fenway Park.

In many of his starts for the Baltimore Orioles this season, Kevin Gausman found himself as a hard-luck loser. That wasn’t the case last night, as the Birds fell 6-4 on the heels of a very tough third inning for Gausman. He was able to get through two unscathed, however the third inning was all Boston needed. In fact, it was all they go. Gausman’s line: 3.0 IP, 7 H, 6 R, 2 BB, 3 K.

When I say it was all they got, I mean that literally. Boston scored six runs off of Gausman in the third, but were unable to net anything else off of any Oriole reliever. In fact, the Birds almost came back on the BoSox, something that can’t make their coaching staff very comfortable.

Big innings start innocently enough. With Boston already leading 1-0, they had two on and nobody out in the third, Gausman seemed to get a gift in the sense that Bogaerts hit a comebacker straight to him. That should have been a double-play – which would have changed the dynamic of the inning and the game. However the ball ticked off of Gausman’s glove, and ended up an infield RBI-single.

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Ortiz would add an RBI-single of his own a moment later, and the O’s trailed 2-0. That brought Ramirez to the plate, and his three-run homer ran the score to 6-0. The Orioles would lift Gausman after that third inning. You don’t want to do that, however it was obvious he didn’t have it on this night. He was getting too much of the plate on his fastballs, and his breaking pitches weren’t really breaking.

However as I said, the Orioles’ bullpen didn’t yield a run. Now that’s eventually going to change if they continually get put into long relief, however the bullpen put the Birds in a position to have a shot. And with their offense, they always have a shot.

Unfortunately for the O’s, they were hitting against Boston’s knuckleballer, Wright. He of course shut them down at Camden Yards on Memorial Day, and appeared to be doing the same thing here. However come the seventh inning he started to tire. Adam Jones put the O’s on the board with a two-run homer which cut the lead to 6-2. Matt Wieters‘ RBI-double an inning later cut it to 6-3, and Jonathan Schoop added an RBI-single later in the inning.