Adley Rutschman drove in three runs and the Baltimore Orioles beat the visiting Seattle Mariners 7-5 on Thursday night as the teams split a four-game series.
Colton Cowser homered and Rutschman, playing in his first game in the series after missing time because of an ailing hamstring, had two run-producing hits for the Orioles, who’ve won two in a row following a four-game skid. They did their damage on seven hits on Thursday.
Cole Young homered to begin the game and finished with three hits and Julio Rodriguez notched two hits for the Mariners. Seattle’s Luke Raley and Dominic Canzone smashed back-to-back home runs.
Tyler Wells (1-1) was the winning pitcher with three innings of hitless relief. Andrew Kittredge pitched the ninth for his first save of the season.
Both starting pitchers made it through at least four innings, but it wasn’t pretty for the first three innings.
Seattle starter Bryan Woo lasted five innings, giving up seven runs and seven hits.
Orioles starter Kyle Bradish was charged with five runs on seven hits in four innings. He matched his season low in innings from his last outing Saturday in Toronto.
Young hit the third pitch of the game — an 0-2 delivery from Bradish — for his fifth homer of the season.
Cowser led off the bottom of the third with his seventh homer of the season to tie the score at 1-1. He represented the first Baltimore batter to reach base in the game.
That launched a six-run inning, capped by Pete Alonso’s two-run shot. Rutschman had a two-run double.
The Mariners bounced back in the fourth with Raley’s two-run blast and Canzone’s solo homer before Rodriguez’s two-out run-scoring single cut it to 6-5.
Rutschman’s fifth-inning single pushed the margin to 7-5.
The Mariners put two runners aboard with two outs in the eighth, but Grant Wolfram came from the bullpen and retired Cole Emerson on a groundout.
