![]() ![]() His career high is 5 2/3 on May 9 against the Rays. We didn't pitch our best there in the sixth inning."įor the sixth time in 11 starts, Rodriguez exited without recording an out in the sixth inning. He gave up that hard hit to Betts the inning before, but still had more left in the tank. "We were up (4-2) when he left."Īsked whether he considered taking out Rodriguez before a third time through the order, Hyde said, "With the state of our bullpen, I thought he was still throwing the ball well. "This is a tough lineup to get through three times and that's a tough top of the order," Hyde said. Smith lined a changeup into left, and Rodriguez missed with his curveball, changeup and fastball while walking Muncy. "The velo is something we've been working on, something that has been with me the last couple starts with Norfolk, so that's something we're going to try to keep in our pocket."įreeman barreled a fastball for his triple in the sixth, with Hicks preventing the home run but unable to make the catch. "I was excited to get back in front of the fans, especially throwing in Camden Yards," Rodriguez said. His four-seamer didn’t touch triple digits after the first, but he could sit in the upper 90s and weave in his changeup and other secondary stuff. He has 13 doubles, 18 home runs and 44 RBIs in 184 at-bats.īetts singled into left-center field with two outs in the fifth and Hicks threw him out at second base to leave Rodriguez at 80 pitches. 300 average and 1.073 OPS in 47 games at Camden Yards. Rodriguez has surrendered 14 runs in the fourth this season. But Rodriguez limited the damage and the Orioles led 3-1. Martinez after Freeman’s leadoff single, a wild pitch and Smith’s walk. ![]() The fourth inning wall caused another collision for Rodriguez, who allowed an RBI single to J.D. Just had a tough time there in the sixth, but besides that, I thought he threw the ball really, really well. "I thought he threw the ball really well," said manager Brandon Hyde. High-velocity fastballs weren’t his only weapon. He induced a double play with his changeup to end the second and used the same pitch to strike out James Outman and Betts in the third and Outman again in the fifth. Rodriguez was charged with four runs and seven hits, with two walks, four strikeouts and two wild pitches. He was removed at 91 pitches after Freeman tripled – the ball glanced off the glove of leaping center fielder Aaron Hicks – Will Smith singled and Max Muncy walked. "I think just being one strike away from getting out of it in general for that long, not being able to execute, yeah, it's tough, for sure," he said.Īdley Rutschman lined his 13 th home run to right field in the fifth inning, and Rodriguez walked to the mound with a 4-1 lead. "Didn't seem like he was really on time with (the fastball), so I trusted it and tried to get it up and just didn't get there."īaker also got ahead of Heyward 0-2 before walking him. Just a little bit too far out over, and gave him time to get to it, pretty much. "Probably could have been in a better spot," Baker said. ![]() Tampa Bay also lost, keeping the Orioles one game back in the division. Ryan Brasier, charged with three earned runs against the Orioles on Opening Day in Boston, earned his first save with the Dodgers, and the winning streak ended at eight games. 192 with runners in scoring position and. Twice handed three-run leads, Rodriguez couldn’t record an out in the sixth and watched from the dugout as Chris Taylor hit a grand slam off Bryan Baker in the Dodgers’ 6-4 victory over the Orioles before an announced crowd of 21,956 at Camden Yards.īaker inherited two runners from Rodriguez, retired two batters on fly balls, walked Jason Heyward, got ahead of Taylor 0-2 and served up the slam on a 97.7 mph fastball that landed in the bullpen. Not until he came back out for the sixth. This wasn’t the same version of Rodriguez. He didn’t top 99.3 during his first stint with the club. Six of his pitches exceeded 100 mph in the inning. Rodriguez concluded an eight-pitch at-bat against Freddie Freeman by getting him to ground a 101-mph fastball to third baseman Ramón Urías. That’s when he decided to turn up the heat. The first three pitches from Grayson Rodriguez tonight were clocked at 98.9, 99.2 and 99.8 mph, resulting in a fly ball from Dodgers leadoff hitter Mookie Betts. ![]()
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