Sunday’s rubber game of the series saw a total of eleven homeruns hit, seven by the Kansas City Royals and four by the Baltimore Orioles. The Splash Zone became the splash down zone as six of those homers landed in the Bird bath area. Despite two homeruns by Jackson Holliday (3 for 4, 2 HR, 2 R, 2 RBI), the Orioles fell to the Royals by a score of 11-6.
Holliday became the sixth youngest Oriole at 21 years, 151 days old to have a multi-homerun game.
Cedric Mullins (1 for 5, HR, R, RBI) homered to right in the fifth inning and Ryan O’Hearn (2 for 5, 2B, HR, 2 R, RBI) homered to left two batters later.
O’Hearn stays hot
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— Baltimore Orioles (@Orioles) May 4, 2025
Adley Rutschman went 1 for 5 with a double and 1 RBI.
Ryan Mountcastle went 1 for 4 with 1 RBI.
Gunnar Henderson (2 for 4, R) and Heston Kjerstad (1 for 4) each hit a double in the game.
Kyle Gibson started and fared better than he did in his last start, allowing 3 runs on 5 hits (HR) with a walk and 3 strikeouts over 4.0 innings.
Of the five relievers Manager Brandon Hyde called upon, only Keegan Akin (1.0 IP, K) pitched a clean inning.
Bryan Baker (1.0 IP, 2 R, 3 H) gave up two homers in the 5th inning, Charlie Morton (1.0 IP, 2 R, 3 H) gave up one in the 8th and Matt Bowman (1.0 IP, 2 R, 2 H, K) gave up one in the 9th.
The pitcher of record, Yennier Cano (0-1) took the loss for a 7th inning in which he allowed 2 runs on 3 hits with 2 homeruns surrendered and 1 strikeout.
Matching Holliday in the multiple homerun game was Kansas City’s Maikel Garcia (3 for 5, 2 HR, 2 R, 2 RBI).
2025 Record: 13-20
Next Game: Tues. 5/6 @ 7:40 pm vs. Twins in Minnesota