Three of four O’s affiliates won on Sunday, with the Baysox getting a gem from Braxton Bragg.
Triple-A: Norfolk Tides 9, Charlotte Knights (CHW) 3
Charlotte was out to a 3-1 lead but the Tides responded with seven runs in the last three innings. Jud Fabian had himself quite a day, homering once in the fifth inning and once more in a six-run seventh where the Tides walked three times and had four hits. Fabian drove in a third run with a sac fly.
Other Tides hitters who had productive days included Dylan Beavers (H, BB, R), Vimael Machín (2H, 2B, RBI), Luis Vázquez (2 H, 2B, 2 RBI) and TT Bowens (2 H, 2B, 2 RBI).
All the offense obscured perhaps the most important occurrence, which was Trevor Rogers’ three-run, three-inning rehab outing. The left hander was terrible last year in four games for the Orioles (7.11 ERA) and his 2025 season started no more promising, with a right knee subluxation. He was fine, not great, but it can’t be overstated how thin the Orioles are on pitching right now.
Behind Rogers, six separate Tides pitchers combined to cover six scoreless innings: Grant Wolfram, Roansy Contreras, Rodolfo Martínez, Colin Selby, Kade Strowd, and Carlos Tavera.
Double-A: Chesapeake Baysox 5, Hartford Yard Goats (COL) 1
Chesapeake made this one look easy thanks to a stellar outing from the pitching. Braxton Bragg pitched a five-inning, three-hit, eight-strikeout gem. He allowed only run, unearned. After Bragg, the Baysox relief corps was spotless: Houston Roth struck out two in two scoreless innings and Daniel Lloyd and Keegan Gillies pitched a no-hit inning apiece.
Chesapeake hitters only had seven hits, but they were big ones. Max Wagner tripled and scored when Douglas Hodo homered. Wagner also doubled in two more runs. Frederick Bencosme doubled in the fifth run. Catcher Adam Retzbach also finished with two hits.
High-A: Bowling Green Hot Rods (TB) 5, Aberdeen IronBirds 3
The IronBirds lost in extras when Bowling Green’s Mac Horvath got revenge on his former team with a two-run home run. The loss, however, was through no fault of rehabbing starter Zach Eflin, who threw 58 pitches (35 for strikes) in a successful four-inning Sunday outing. The right hander walked two and also struck out four. Reliever Andrew Kittredge, who’d begun the MLB season on the IL, threw one inning, allowing a run on two hits.
Unfortunately, with the IronBirds up 3-2 Aberdeen reliever Christian Heberholz let the tying run score. And in extras, Horvath homered off Angel Tejeda to give the Hot Rods the win.
Low-A: Delmarva Shorebirds 8, Fayetteville Woodpeckers (HOU) 4
Delmarva busted out the bats to support a pitching quartet of Chase Allsup, Chipper Menard, Eccel Correa and Deivy Cruz. Down 2-1, the Shorebirds exploded with a four-run inning, on a pair of two-run jacks by Raylin Ramos and Edwin Amparo. From the DH spot, Yasmil Bucce added a two-run blast of his own in the eighth inning. Bucce finished the day 3-for-5 with three runs scored.
As for the pitching, Allsup tossed 3.2 innings with four hits, including one two-run home run, allowed. Menard pitched a scoreless 1.1 innings, Correa struck out five while allowing two runs (zero earned), and Cruz earned the save by striking out the one batter he faced.
Monday’s scheduled games:
There are no scheduled games for Monday, 5/5.