BALTIMORE—Kyle Bradish pitched impressively into the seventh inning and Austin Hays homered to lift the Baltimore Orioles to a 3–1 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Wednesday night, May 17.
Mike Trout went deep for the Angels, but they fell back to .500 with their eighth loss in 11 games.
Bradish (2–1) allowed a run and four hits in 6 2/3 innings against the team that drafted him. He struck out five without a walk. Danny Coulombe, Yennier Cano and Felix Bautista got the final seven outs, with Bautista working the ninth for his 11th save in 14 chances.
Bautista walked Trout with one out, bringing Shohei Ohtani up as the tying run. Ohtani went down swinging and Hunter Renfroe flied out to deep center field to end it.
Griffin Canning (2–2) allowed three runs and nine hits in 5 1/3 innings.
The Orioles loaded the bases with nobody out in the second, but Terrin Vavra hit into a 1–2–3 double play and Canning escaped the jam. Baltimore took the lead the following inning on Ryan Mountcastle’s RBI single, but Trout answered in the fourth with his ninth home run of the year.
Baltimore went back ahead in the bottom of the fourth when Vavra swiped second—the first steal of his career—and scored on a two-out single by Cedric Mullins. Hays hit a solo shot in the fifth.
Bradish was picked in in the fourth round of the 2018 draft by the Angels. They traded him to Baltimore the following year in a deal that sent Dylan Bundy to Los Angeles. He has allowed only one earned run in 12 2/3 innings over his past two starts.
