Entering Wednesday night’s game with the Seattle Mariners (67-54) there was one team without a walk-off win in 2025 and that team was the Baltimore Orioles. That all changed with one swing of the bat as the Orioles orchestrated a thrilling 4-3 win in front of 17,290 fans.
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It was a two-out double to the right field corner by Jackson Holliday that produced the walk-off win. Dylan Carlson, who went 2 for 4 on the night, scored the winning run which ignited a shirt-ripping, button-popping celebratory melee on the infield.
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— Baltimore Orioles (@Orioles) August 14, 2025
Carlson’s night was significant as it came on the heels of his 1 for 3 performance on Tuesday; Carlson entered the Seattle series in an 0 for 35 slump. Holliday was 0 for 4 entering his ninth inning at-bat.
Granted, Wednesday was just one game out of 162 but when measured against the narrative that is this lost 2025 season, it will be high up on the highlight list.
Another good pitching matchup
The game was scoreless through the first sixth innings as Orioles starter Trevor Rogers went toe-to-toe with Mariners starter Logan Gilbert. That all changed in the seventh inning and by the end of the inning both pitchers were out of the game. Seattle opened the seventh with a Julio Rodriguez triple and Josh Naylor singled him home one batter later. Rogers got through the inning without any further damage, hurling yet another quality start (7.0 IP, R, 4 H, 6 K).
Ryan Mountcastle greeted Gilbert in the home half of the seventh with a homerun off the top of the wall in centerfield, his fourth of the season.
Coby Mayo‘s one out single sent Gilbert to the showers. Jeremiah Jackson tripled and scored off of Seattle reliever Gabe Speier; the throw from the outfield to home landed into the third base camera well, allowing him to score.
The inning ended with the Orioles holding a 3-1 lead and Gilbert holding a line of 6.1 IP, 2 R, 4 H, 2 BB, 6 K.
Dietrich Enns struck out two alter allowing a lead-off single in the eighth. Yennier Cano was tagged for two runs in the ninth when the Mariners worked a single, a walk and a double-steal into game-tying runs. Keegan Akin (4-2) was credited with the win after he finished out the ninth despite allowing an inherited runner to score.
A roller-coaster of emotions for Rogers
Rogers time in the dugout was probably more stressful than pitching in the game was. He left after seven innings as the potential losing pitcher and went from no-decision after the Mountcastle homer to potential winning pitcher after the Baltimore half of the seventh inning. Rogers was back to a no decision once Seattle tied the game in the ninth and that is how his start ended, with a no-decision.
As the song says, If we took a Holliday, took some time to celebrate, just one day out of life…it would be so nice. And on this Wednesday night it was nice.
2025 Record: 54-66
Next Game: Thurs. 8/14 @ 1:05 pm vs. Seattle Mariners