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After struggling to mount an attack against
White Sox starter Mike Clevinger during his six shutout innings,
Baltimore rallied against the Chicago bullpen to win for the
fourth time in five games.
Jorge Mateo and Ryan O'Hearn made it six unanswered runs for
Baltimore with eighth-inning RBI doubles.
Felix Bautista worked around a walk to strike out three in the
ninth inning and earn his fourth save of the season.
The White Sox led 3-0 entering the seventh, when the Orioles
struck for four runs against relievers Jake Diekman and Reynaldo
Lopez (0-1).
Jake Burger smacked a solo home run against Baltimore starter
Tyler Wells to open the scoring in the second inning. Chicago's
Andrew Benintendi and Eloy Jimenez contributed RBI hits in a
two-run sixth.
Elvis Andrus doubled twice for Chicago.
Benintendi saved at least one run with a remarkable diving catch
in left field for the first out in the sixth inning.
After Clevinger opened the inning by issuing consecutive walks,
Rutschman sent a fly ball toward the left field line. Benintendi
raced over and sprawled out to make the catch. Terrin Vavra
tagged up and advanced to third on the play, but the White Sox
escaped further trouble when Clevinger retired the next two
batters on a foul popup and a flyout to right.
Clevinger yielded one hit and five walks while striking out five
in his White Sox home debut.
Wells allowed three runs and five hits in 5 1/3 innings with one
walk and three strikeouts. The right-hander retired nine
straight White Sox and 11 of 12 following Burger's blast, but
things unraveled in the sixth, as Wells allowed four of the
first five batters to reach base.
Winning pitcher Mike Baumann (1-0) helped Baltimore avoid an
even more crooked number. He entered with two runs in and two on
base, and he walked Gavin Sheets to load the bases. Baumann then
recorded successive strikeouts of Yasmani Grandal and Lenyn Sosa
to keep the deficit at 3-0.
--Field Level Media
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