Kyle Bradish struck out nine over eight shutout innings and Taylor Ward and Coby Mayo each homered to lead the Baltimore Orioles to a 6-1 victory over the Los Angeles Angels in the opener of a three-game series on Monday night in Anaheim, Calif.
Bradish (5-7), a fourth-round draft pick of the Angels in 2018, scattered six singles and walked one while winning his second straight start and first at Anaheim Stadium. Six of his nine strikeouts were looking.
Gunnar Henderson tripled and had three hits and an RBI and a run scored and Leody Taveras and Ward also had two hits for Baltimore, which won its third straight game.
Jorge Soler homered and Nolan Schanuel had two hits for Los Angeles, which had a two-game win streak snapped. Sam Aldegheri (2-3), making his fourth start of the season, suffered the loss, allowing five runs on five hits over 4 2/3 innings. He walked one and struck out three.
Baltimore took a 1-0 lead when Ward, playing his first game against Los Angeles following a winter trade for pitcher Grayson Rodriguez, led off the game with his fifth home run, a 419-foot drive to center. It was the 12 th career leadoff homer of Ward’s career.
The Orioles extended the lead to 4-0 in the fourth inning when Mayo ripped his 10th home run down the left field line, driving in Henderson, who had walked, and Pete Alonso, who had singled.
Baltimore made it 5-0 in the fifth inning on a bases-loaded sacrifice fly by Alonso, driving in Jeremiah Jackson, who had singled.
The Orioles added an insurance run in the seventh inning to make it 6-0 when Ward led off with a single and scored on a triple into the right field corner by Henderson.
Soler spoiled the shutout with his 10th home run against reliever Rico Garcia leading off the bottom of the ninth to end the scoring.
–Field Level Media
