Kyle Bradish Brings the Orioles to a W vs. Astros (8/26/22)

Coming off of a winning series vs the White Sox, the O’s had a great pitching outing by Kyle Bradish and the O’s take game 1 of the series vs the Houston Astros.

This marked Trey Mancini’s first game ever against the Orioles and he went 0-3 with a walk.

The Orioles starting lineup:

1. C. Mullins, 2. A. Rutschman C, 3. A. Santander DH, 4. R. Mountcastle 1B, 5. A. Hays RF, 6. K. Stowers LF, 7. R. Urias 3B, 8. R. Odor 2B, 9. J. Mateo SS

The starting pitcher for the Birds was Kyle Bradish (1-5, 6.25 ERA, 73 K).

The Astros starting lineup:

1. J. Altuve 2B, 2. Y. Gurriel 1B, 3. Y. Alvarez LF, 4. A. Bregman 3B, 5. K. Tucker RF, 6. T. Mancini DH, 7. J. Pena SS, 8. J. Meyers CF, 9. M. Maldonado C

Kyle Bradish’s eight scoreless innings lead Orioles to victory over Astros

The starting pitcher for Houston was Lance McCullers Jr (1-1, 2.45 ERA, 11 K).  He made his third start of the season after recovering from Tommy John surgery.

Cristian Javier (2.97 ERA) came in for McCullers Jr in the 6th after Lance pitched five excellent innings.

Ramon Urias hit a 389-foot 2-run home run (14) to the train tracks to give the Orioles a 2-0 lead.  Kyle Stowers scored on the play and had two hits in the game.

Will Smith (4.30 ERA) came in for Houston in the 9th.

Kyle Bradish had an amazing game as he pitched eight shutout innings before he was relived in the 9th by Cionel Perez (1.66 ERA).

Dillon Tate (2.72 ERA) came into the 9th with 2 runners on and got his 3rd save of the season. Trey Mancini was the final out, striking out on 3 pitches.  Houston only mustered four hits, and only two of those came off of Bradish.

The Astros and Baltimore will continue their series with game 2 tomorrow, Saturday, August 27th at 7:10 PM EST.  Dean Kremer will be on the mound.