It wasn’t a great day of baseball for the Tides, but reinforcements are on the way.
Triple-A: Worcester Red Sox 13, Norfolk Tides 0
Well, if you liked Trevor Rogers in a Baltimore uniform wait ‘til you … no, this was really bad. Red Sox affiliate Worcester has several players with MLB experience on its roster in Bobby Dalbec, Vaughn Grissom and and Eddy Alvarez, but the Orioles left hander’s stuff should still play better in Triple-A than this! Rogers allowed a whopping 10 runs, all earned, on nine hits and three walks. That includes a Grissom grand slam in the fifth which, you figure, really had to put a damper on Rogers’ day.
Other than that, the Tides scattered five hits, all singles, up and down the lineup. Jud Fabian, Blake Hunt, Liván Soto, TT Bowens, and Hudson Haskin all had one.
OK. Moving on.
Double-A: Erie SeaWolves (DET) 8, Bowie Baysox 6 – F/10
The Baysox made it a game, scoring two in the bottom of the ninth on a two-run Silas Ardoin single to send it to extras before losing in ten. This was a very top-heavy box score: Enrique Bradfield Jr., hitting leadoff, went 4-for-5 with a double and two runs scored. Samuel Basallo, DH’ing in the No. 2 spot, went 2-for-4 with 3 RBI, including a two-run home run. And Ardoin finished 2-for-4 with a homer and 3 RBIs of his own. After that, no Baysock had a hit, with Collin Burns and Ryan Higgins reaching on bases on balls.
Peter Van Loon got bombed out in a five-run second inning during which he allowed two home runs, including one for three runs. But Bowie responded almost immediately, with Samuel Basallo going deep to score himself and Bradfield Jr. Ardoin homered in the sixth and Basallo knocked in a fourth Bowie run on a sac fly ahead of Ardoin’s heroics in the ninth.
After Van Loon, things went a bit better for the pitchers. Dylan Heid threw 2.2 innings and allowed no earned runs. Kyle Virbitsky gave up one run in two innings of work. But Keegan Gillies took the loss with two runs, one earned, in the ninth.
After the game, though, good news came: the Orioles are calling up Basallo to Triple-A Norfolk! The 20-year-old jumps to the next level after 106 games in Bowie, where he posted a .289 average, .465 slugging and .820 OPS as a DH/catcher. Good luck in Norfolk, Samuel!
High-A: Aberdeen IronBirds 7, Winston-Salem Dash (CWS) 6 – F/11
A second straight weekend win in extras for the IronBirds. Aberdeen and Winston-Salem traded two-run innings in the second, Aberdeen’s runs both coming on a Douglas Hodo blast. They’d add a third run on a Creed Willems double followed up by a Leandro Arias single. Hodo and Arias were instrumental in the fourth run, Hodo walking to set up Arias’ game-tying double.
Come extra innings, these two teams made it a tight contest. Each scored one run in the tenth inning, Aberdeen’s coming on a wild pitch. After Winston-Salem went ahead in the top of the eleventh, Aron Estrada singled home the ghost runner and scored on a walkoff hit by Thomas Sosa.
Five Aberdeen pitchers shared responsibilities. Zach Fruit, the starter, gave his team four innings with a two-run home run his only blemish. Grabiel Salazar allowed two more runs to score on a home run and a balk. Graham Firoved, Yaqui Rivera and Cooper McKeehan had pretty good outings.
Low-A: Delmarva Shorebirds 5, Down East Wood Ducks (TEX) 4
Delmarva made this one 5-0 in the fourth inning and stuck it out for a win. A bunch of new Orioles contributed to the early-innings run-scoring: Vance Honeycutt, Ethan Anderson and Ryan Stafford helped drive a two-run third inning, and three more Delmarva runs scored against a very wild Down East farmhand, who managed to hit two batters and walk three more in a single inning.
Blake Money didn’t have his best start, with four runs allowed (three earned) in 4.2 innings, but it wasn’t terrible. Eddy Alberto threw a great 2.1 innings with no hits and four strikeouts. Trent Turzenski turned in a scoreless inning of his own, and former O’s MiLB signing Joe Glassey, a 23-year-old out of Park Ridge, Illinois, got the save with a scoreless ninth.
Tuesday’s Schedule
- Norfolk @ Jacksonville, 7:05. Starter: TBD
- Bowie @ Akron, 12:05. Starter: TBD
- Aberdeen @ Wilmington, 6:35. Starter: TBD
- Delmarva vs. Salem, 7:05. Starter: TBD