Vs. Baltimore Orioles (16-19) FIRST PITCH: 7:05 P.M
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Monday • May 10, 2021 • Game #35 • Home Game #18 Boston Red Sox (22-14) vs. Baltimore Orioles (16-19) FIRST PITCH: 7:05 p.m. • TEMP: 65 degrees • TIME OF GAME: 2:45 R H E LOB WP: Scott (2-2) Today’s Attendance: 6,826 Red Sox 1 4 0 4 LP: Andriese (1-2) Season Total: 123,659 Orioles 4 9 0 6 SV: Valdez (8) Season Average: 7,729 ORIOLES NOTES • The Orioles avoided a four-game sweep at the hands of the Red Sox with a 4-1 victory on Monday night…The Orioles are now 5-13 at home this season, compared to an 11-6 record on the road…O’s batters have homered in each of their last 11 games (15 HR total), the longest-active streak in the majors…The club is 6-5 over this stretch…The Orioles are now 12-12 when they hit at least one home run in a game and 9-3 when they hit multiple home runs. • RHP Jorge López allowed just one run on four hits with five strikeouts and one hit batter through 5.2 innings of the no decision…It was his longest outing of the season, and second without giving up a home run…It was his first start since 9/29/19 vs. Minnesota that he did not walk a batter…Threw 71 pitches, 52 strikes. • DH Ryan Mountcastle crushed his third home run of the season to left field to open the scoring in the second inning…All three of his homers this season have been against the Red Sox…The 391-foot, 106.5 MPH solo shot was the second home run of his career to come on the first pitch…It was his second homer this season when he leads off an inning, and he is 8-for-30 (.267) in such situations…Added an infield single in the sixth inning for a multi-hit game in consecutive days for the first time this season and second time in his career (last: 9/8/20-9/9/20). • 1B Trey Mancini gave the Orioles a 2-1 lead in the sixth frame with his seventh home run of the season…The solo shot was hit 440 feet to deep center field for the longest home run by an Orioles batter this season…It was the second-longest homer of Mancini’s career (7/29/17 at TEX, 459 ft.)…Added to the Orioles lead with an RBI single to center field in the eighth inning for his ninth multi-hit game of the season, and his team-leading eighth multi-RBI game of the year. • C Pedro Severino snapped a 0-for-18 skid with his first three-hit game of the season…His last hit before tonight was a double on 5/2 at Oakland (four games between)…It was his sixth multi-hit game of the year and first since 4/26 vs. New York-AL…His last game with three-or-more hits came on 8/16/20 vs. Washington. • CF Cedric Mullins hit the sixth triple of his career in the eighth frame before scoring on Mancini’s base-hit to increase the Orioles lead to 3-1…He last tripled on 9/27/20 at Toronto, when he tallied two in the game…He has hit safely in five-straight games, batting .250 (5-for-20) with three extra-base hits (2B, 3B, HR), one RBI, five runs scored, two walks, and one stolen base. RED SOX NOTES • The Red Sox dropped game four against the Orioles by a score of 1-4…The loss snapped their current four- game winning streak…This was the first time in the last 11 meetings between the clubs that the visiting team was not victorious…The Red Sox are now 22-11 (.667) since being swept by the Orioles to open the season. • LHP Martín Pérez did not factor in the decision, allowing one run on four hits (one home run) and a walk with four strikeouts through 5.0 innings…Was just his second home run allowed this season…He has allowed two earned runs-or-fewer in five of his last six starts, including each of his last four…Has not earned a decision in five of his seven starts this season…Threw 74 pitches, 53 strikes. • DH J.D. Martinez went 2-for-4 with one run scored tonight after lacing two singles into left field in the first and fourth frames…It was his 14th multi-hit game of the season, and fifth in his last 10 games played…Entering today, Martinez was in a six-way tie for the most multi-hit games in Major League Baseball. • RF Hunter Renfroe knocked a double to right field in the fifth inning for his only hit of the game…He has tallied at least one hit in each game of this series, going 5-for-16 (.313) with a double, one home run, three RBI and three runs scored, after going 0-for-7 in his first two games played against Baltimore this season. .