Just had no offense after that and had to hold on tight." Had him on the ropes there and then lined into an (inning-ending) double play. "We didn't hit the ball extremely hard but we put the ball in play. "They like to make it tough on me," Hyde joked. I felt good and then the second inning, you just look up and they're poking it the other way, they're staying inside, they're just hitting it in the holes."īaltimore didn't garner a hit in the other eight innings of the contest. "You start to get a little bit too fine, because things are not going your way," said Gray, who blanked the Orioles on two hits over six innings in his previous start on July 2. Two other runs scored on back-to-back bases-loaded walks to Colton Cowser and Ramon Urias. Adam Frazier led the way with a two-run single and Gunnar Henderson and Anthony Santander added RBI singles. The Orioles parlayed six singles and two walks into six runs in the second inning on Saturday against Twins starter Sonny Gray en route to a 6-1 lead. "Hopefully Gibby pitches well and we get a well-deserved break for these guys."īaltimore had lost 12 of its previous 13 meetings in Minneapolis entering the series, which began with a 3-1 victory in 10 innings on Friday night.
"It would be great to close out the first half with a win tomorrow," Baltimore manager Brandon Hyde said after the Orioles defeated the Twins 6-2 on Saturday afternoon.
He is 0-0 with a 3.38 ERA in one career start against the Twins. He will be making his 97th career appearance and 96th career start at Target Field, where he has compiled a 32-36 record and 4.70 ERA. The 35-year-old Gibson was a first-round pick of Minnesota in the 2009 MLB Draft and played for the Twins from 2013-19. Right-hander Kyle Gibson (8-6, 4.73 ERA), no stranger to Target Field, will take the mound for the Orioles and will be opposed by right-hander Joe Ryan (8-5, 3.42). July 9 - The surging Baltimore Orioles will aim to take a five-game winning streak into the All-Star break when they attempt to complete a three-game sweep of the Minnesota Twins on Sunday in Minneapolis.
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