Royals vs. Orioles Game Recap (5/2/25) | MLB Highlights | Baltimore Orioles

Royals vs. Orioles Game Recap (5/2/25) | MLB Highlights | Baltimore Orioles

Dean Kramer his seventh start of the year. Ben, it’s only his second start here at Camden Yards. Yeah, Dino needs to get going. One, two for India. There’s the first curveball swatted out to H Kerstad and Wright. And a nice start to the game for Dean Kramer. Well, here’s Bobby Whit Jr., one of the best players on planet Earth. Three cutters in this sequence. And there’s the first splitter. He splits Wit for his first strikeout. Brings up Vinnie Pasquantino. Pasquantino rolls the game. Second splitter over to second and he’s thrown out by Jackson Holiday. And a very quick one, two, three, neat and tidy. Top of the first for Dean Kramer. Michael Walker takes the mound for his seventh start of the season. He enters with a 338 erra. That’s after six shutout innings against the Astros. The last time he took the mound off speed and popped up off of third. Mikel Garcia is there tonight. One away. Just another change up for an outright there by Michael Walka. What he does best. And now Gunnar Henderson steps to the plate. He’s got a sevengame hit streak and Henderson makes an eight. Well, that’s that elevated change up you’re talking about. And that brings up Adley Rutman. Switch hitter batting left-handed. Grounded out to Massie who turns and gets the out at second. And that is an inning ending double play. Well, just what the doctor ordered right there. And there’s one away. First pitch to Michael Massie. Now Massie hits it fair and down into the right field corner. Massie standing with a double. The first hit of the game for the Royals. So Massie in scoring position and now Mark Hannah. This ball’s off of Kramer. Kicks to Mount Castle. Dean covers and still gets the outs for the good of the play. You don’t see that every day. A31 put out over at first base. 103 off the bat. It looked like it caught Dean Kramer somewhere on the thigh is what it looked like. So here’s Drew Waters. Massie at third. Breaking ball over to first. Mount Castle feeds Kramer again. And Dean withstands a mighty blow in that inning, but he keeps Kansas City off the board. Michael Waka is back on the mound for the bottom of the second inning. His first pitch to Ryan O’Harn. And O’Harn grounds the ball the other way here. There’s a base hit for the longtime Royal brings up Jackson Holiday, a left-handed hitter. Jackson Holiday first pitch served in the right and that’s two first pitch hits for the O’s in the inning. Raone Lauriano steps to the plate. Right-handed hitter on the ground to Junior. Quick turn and a double play. An inning ending double play in a second straight inning. So two fly ball outs to start inning number four for KC. And now Garcia and that’s down and away. Make it two as Garcia reaches with a two out walks. That’ll bring up Michael Massie. Blocked by Rutman, but Garcia read it right away and moves up without a throw. Yeah, looked like he was going with that delayed steel again like we did yesterday trying to catch the with a left-handed hitter up there. You know, Rutchman has a tougher time. Seems Let’s see. He gets the extended lead. No, he read that ball down in the dirt. He’s out in front. One ball, one strike. Massie lines it to left center. Mullins away back there. Makes it look easy for the Royals. Left at second base and no score as Ryan Mount Castle comes to bat in the bottom of the fifth. Mount Castle chops a high fast ball into right. Way to stay on top of that Mount Bounty. One away brings up Raone Gloriano. He’ll get a strike out here and two down. That’s his second. Got him with a high change up. And now Kirst back. Swung on a miss that got away from for me and Mount Castle takes an extra base. Struck him out with a change up of ways. Backto back case for Waka to end a scoreless fifth. And Massie will be at first base now for Mark Cannon. Fast ball here. caught a little too much of the plate, but it’s going to stay in the yard for Kerat. Massie still at first base now with two down. Drew Waters will be the hitter. Two two pitch. Grounded. Henderson sliding. Made a fantastic play. What a play by Gunner Henderson on the ricochet right back up the box. He had to dive to his left. Comes away with it. Springs to his feet and retires the Royals here in the seventh inning. And nobody has scored tonight. Bottom of the seventh inning and Adley Rutman, their three-hole hitter, will lead off against Waka as Adley Rutman serves this one into the right field corner. The heart of the order in the Orioles seventh kickstarts a rally with a Rutman double. So he’s in scoring position now. Ryan O’Harn, the ex Royal, their DH, who has really found a home in Baltimore. O’Harn drives one to left center out toward the bullpen. up. It’s gone. Oh, obliterated. It took until the seventh, but finally the Orioles strike as the former Royal does his old team. Who else would it be other than turn and burn O’Harn? He said, “Forget about a ground ball to the right side. I’m just going yard ball on this one.” Old wall, new wall. That bird land is a long ball. Nobody down for Ryan Mount Castle. Mount Castle launches one to left. That ball is off the wall. Mounty turns for second and the dynamic duo mashes a couple of extra base hits here in the seventh. Three extra base hits. So runner at second, one out. And the batter will be Ramon Lauraniano. Great battle by Lauraniano. He has the Orioles first walk tonight. And Matt Quatero makes his first walk tonight. Michael Waka for six innings built on great deception. But the Orioles figured out the truth here in the seventh. They take the lead. They knock him out. And he’s going to hand the ball off to Steven Cruz who has pitched seven games, six and two/3 innings. He has not allowed a run. He has not allowed a hit yet. Oh, the bottom line is he’s been getting it done. Let’s see if he can do it here against Kurtstad. Left-hand batter. And Kerstad slices one up the gut for a base hit. That’ll load the bases. Mount Castle had to hold in case Wit was there. A 106 shot. Now Emanuel Rivera. Remember Rivera was the late addition of the lineup. Monas was scratched with right hamstring tightness. Rivera comes through up the gap and right center. That’ll bring in a run. Now Castle in to score. where everybody else goes station to station and Emanuel Rivera in his second game of the year has a big first RBI. It’s three nothing. A big first RBI and a big first hit for Rivera. First base hit of the year. You talk about another ball struck firm. A line drive right over Massiey’s head at second base. So back to the top of the order. Left-handed hitting Cedric Mullins. Bases loaded. Still only one out. Line. Vinnie’s got it. And that’s a double play. An unassisted double play at first base. A line shot to Vinnie. He reaches down and touches first base. Steven Cruz gets out of it relatively cheaply. He allows one inherited runner into the game. You near canoe. That means the night is over for Dean Kramer. And what a night. Best downing of the year by far. Seven scoreless. Freddy Fine leads off up the middle and into center field. Freddy Fine has a two-hit game and the Royals have their leadoff man on for the first time. And the Royals try to start a rally of their own. and brings up Kyle Isel who’s 0 for two with a couple of pop outs and a little looper left field. Carlson makes a sliding catch. The defensive replacement comes up big. Back to the top of the lineup and Jonathan India. There’s a ground ball to third. Rivera picks it and too tough to turn against India. And now Canó against Wit Bobby Jr. the longest active hit streak in baseball at 22. is 0 for three tonight with a hit streak on the line and for Kansas City possibly the game on the line with the top of their order up advantage Canó a change up of death and he got him with a nasty change a stare down from Yianir he punches out wit and the Orioles still have a three nothing lead could be the death star on the mound here in the ninth inning time to turn him clocks back to mountain time making his 10th appearance of the year five for five and save opportunities. Here’s Mike El Garcia. One out bases empty. Oh yeah, that wasn’t his best splitter, KB. But when you got to get your foot down and catch up with 97, 98, sometimes 99, even though you leave that splitter a little bit higher up than you want, you see the swing way out in front of it. And that’s the advantage of throwing hard. Last chance for Kansas City is Michael Massie, who has two hits so far tonight. And they’re on their feet in downtown Baltimore. That ball’s rocketed to shortstop. Henderson’s there, and the Orioles win it. A one, two, three save for the Orio death star at the back of this bullpen. And the first shut out of the season is in the books for the birds who have won three of four to start this home stand.

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