Gunnar Henderson and Jackson Holliday homered and Kyle Bradish struck out a career-high 12 in 7 2/3 strong innings as the Baltimore Orioles defeated the host Seattle Mariners 5-3 on Wednesday.
Seattle’s Dominic Canzone and Cole Young hit back-to-back homers to open the bottom of the ninth against Orioles closer Ryan Helsley, who was making his first appearance after a six-week absence caused by right elbow inflammation.
Helsley overcame that by getting Victor Robles to ground out before fanning rookie Colt Emerson and Connor Joe to end the game.
Bradish (4-7), who lasted four innings in each of his previous two starts and gave up five runs in both, limited the Mariners to one run on five hits and two walks.
With a runner on first and two outs in the eighth, the Orioles brought in Yennier Cano to face Cal Raleigh. The move didn’t work as Raleigh walked, but Cano got Rob Refsnyder, the potential tying run, to pop out to shortstop, ending the inning.
Despite a quality start, Mariners right-hander George Kirby (5-7) dropped his fifth straight decision. Kirby allowed three runs on eight hits over six innings, with no walks and five strikeouts.
The Orioles opened the scoring in the third inning. Blaze Alexander grounded a one-out single to right field, and an out later, Henderson hit a high fly to right that just cleared the fence.
The Mariners halved their deficit in the fourth. Julio Rodriguez hit a one-out double to right and Canzone followed by grounding a run-scoring single to center.
The score remained 2-1 until the sixth when the Orioles’ Pete Alonso reached on a one-out infield single. An out later, former Mariner Leody Taveras hit a low liner to right-center that rolled all the way to the wall for a run-scoring triple.
The Orioles’ Tyler O’Neill made a leaping catch at the right field wall in the bottom of the inning to rob Raleigh of a home run.
The Orioles tacked on another run in the seventh against reliever Alex Hoppe. Holliday drew a leadoff walk and advanced to third as Alexander grounded a single up the middle. Holliday scored to make it 4-1 as Taylor Ward grounded into an around-the-horn double play.
The Mariners were without first baseman Josh Naylor (right wrist discomfort) and outfielder Luke Raley (lower back tightness) for the second straight game.
