Sept. 6 was a day that already held historic meaning in Orioles history.
Cal Ripken Jr. broke the MLB record with his 2,131st consecutive game Sept. 6, 1995. Eddie Murray launched his 500th career home run Sept. 6, 1996, becoming the third of seven players all time to collect 500 home runs and 3,000 hits. The Orioles celebrated Ripken’s milestone on its 30th anniversary Saturday with a pregame ceremony in front of a sellout crowd.
On the brink of finding themselves on the wrong side of history, the Orioles tapped into the magic of their predecessors.
Baltimore was one out away from being no-hit by the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Yoshinobu Yamamoto before Jackson Holliday injected life into the Orioles’ lineup with a wall-scraping home run to right field. A two-out rally culminated with Emmanuel Rivera’s two-run single to win the game, 4-3.
Before the ninth, the only blemishes against Yamamoto were consecutive walks drawn by rookies Dylan Beavers and Samuel Basallo in the third. But Holliday’s 362-foot long ball spoiled any chance of the Dodgers marring Sept. 6 in the Orioles’ history books.
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts then turned to Blake Treinen for the final out leading 3-1, and the right-hander allowed a double by Jeremiah Jackson and walked both Gunnar Henderson and Ryan Mountcastle to load the bases. Another walk by Colton Cowser narrowed the margin to one run and prompted another pitching change, this time for former Oriole Tanner Scott.
But Scott, who allowed a walk-off home run to Basallo on Friday, once again gave up the game-winning hit as Rivera lined a two-run single up the middle
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