BOSTON — Tanner Houck gave up five runs in 5 ⅓ innings and the Red Sox offense did little against Orioles starting pitcher Kyle Bradish.
Boston entered with just a 3.8% chance of making the playoffs, per Fangraphs.com. That percentage will drop even more after an ugly 11-2 loss the Orioles.
The Red Sox recorded just four hits and dropped to 6-11 at Fenway Park since the beginning of August. They have lost six of their past seven games here.
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The Orioles took a 1-0 lead in the fourth inning when Ryan O’Hearn crushed a 424-foot home run to right field on an 83.3 mph slider from Houck. It left his bat with a 109.7 mph exit velocity.
Baltimore jumped ahead 5-0 in the sixth inning. Cedric Mullins hit a two-run double to right field and Austin Hays ripped an RBI single to left field after Mullins advanced to third base on an error. Joe Jacques replaced Houck and gave up a RBI sac fly to right field.
Houck pitched 5 ⅓ innings, allowing five runs, all earned, eight hits and two walks while striking out five. He threw 79 pitches, 54 for strikes. He recorded seven swings and misses with his 29 sliders. He also threw 29 sinkers, 14 four-seam fastballs and seven splitters. He topped out at 95.1 mph and averaged 93.3 mph with his four-seamer and 92.4 mph with his sinker, per Baseball Savant.
Orioles starter Kyle Bradish held the Red Sox to just one hit — a single by Connor Wong — through the first five innings. But Boston broke through with two runs on three hits in the sixth inning.
Wong made it 5-1 with a 395-foot home run to left field to lead off the bottom of the sixth. Alex Verdugo followed with a double and Justin Turner knocked in Verdugo with a two-out ground-rule double to cut it to 5-2.
Adley Rutschman put the Orioles ahead 6-2 in the eighth with a solo homer wrapped around Pesky’s Pole in the eighth. A wild pitch in the eighth scored Baltimore’s seventh run. The O’s added four more runs in the ninth.
