Baltimore Orioles beat the Toronto Blue Jays 6-5 game recap 4/1/19

The Baltimore Orioles are coming off an impressive opening series win against the rival New York Yankees and looked to keep up the hot offense. They wasted no time in tonight’s game.

Jonathan Villar put up the first runs tonight, smashing his first homerun of the season, scoring Dwight Smith to give the Orioles an early 2-0 lead.

The Orioles would continue in the top of the first scoring another run when Chris Davis walked with the bases loaded to make it 3-0. Following the walk, Jesus Sucre struck out on a wild pitch that scored third baseman Rio Ruiz to take a 4-0 lead.

David Hess started the game for the Baltimore Orioles tonight. This was his first start of the season and was certainly one to remember. David Hess was lights out the entire game, giving up 0 hits and 0 earned runs in 6.1 innings. Despite a low pitch count of 82 and an impressive 8 strikeouts, Manager Brandon Hyde pulled Hess with one out in the 7th inning.

In the top of the 2nd, Trey Mancini would keep his smoking hot bat going, scoring Cedric Mullins on a sacrifice fly to take a 5-0 lead.

Both offenses would stay quiet until the top of the sixth, when once again Trey Mancini would come through for the Orioles, blasting a solo shot to center to take a 6-0 lead. Already this season, Trey has 4 RBIs off of 8 hits, two of which have been homeruns in back to back games.

Enter Pedro Araujo in relief in the bottom of the seventh for the Baltimore Orioles. Araujo would quickly kill Davis Hess’ no hit bid, giving up a 2-run homer to Randal Grichuk, cutting the Orioles lead to 6-2.

In the bottom of the 8th, Mike Wright would come into pitch, and he would do Mike Wright things. Wright gave up a solo homerun to Freddy Galvis after making quick work of the first two batters, making the score 6-3

The bottom of the 9th was as stressful as you could imagine, with Richard Bleier coming in for the save opportunity. Bleier would struggle, giving up a sacrifice fly to Blue Jays centerfielfer Kevin Pillar, making the game 6-4. Following the sac fly, Teoscar Hernandez would triple, scoring another run to cut the lead to 6-5.

Fortunately for the Orioles, Bleier would strike out the next batter, recording his first save this season and securing a nail bitting 6-5 victory for the Baltimore Orioles.

David Hess would record the win (1-0) and Blue Jays pitcher Sean Reid-Foley would record the loss (0-1).

The Baltimore Orioles will take on the Toronto Blue Jays Tuesday night for game 2, sending Andrew Cashner to the mound to face off against Marcus Stroman for the Blue Jays.

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