Adley Rutschman’s hamstring is fine. Samuel Basallo’s feelings aren’t hurt. Colton Cowser and Pete Alonso are still packing plenty of power. And the Orioles pulled out of their latest spiral by winning back-to-back games and splitting their series against the Mariners.

Kyle Bradish surrendered a career-high three homers over four innings, but the Orioles scored six times against Bryan Woo in the third and withstood a rally and rainstorm in a 7-5 victory before an announced crowd of 15,776 at Camden Yards.

The unpredictability remains a featured attraction of the Orioles, who improved their record to 33-37 after their latest triumph over the first-place Mariners.

The Orioles almost experienced their first rain delay of 2026, with the grounds crew moving behind the tarp in the sixth. The group left in the eighth and didn’t unroll it until after the last out. The weather also is unpredictable.

Nine batters came to the plate in the third, which began with Cowser’s seventh home run of the season. The Orioles loaded the bases with one out on singles by Jackson Holliday and Taylor Ward and Gunnar Henderson’s walk, and a wild pitch broke a 1-1 tie.

Rutschman, playing for the first time since Sunday, lined a two-run double down the right field line, and Alonso destroyed a first-pitch sweeper for his 15th homer. The ball traveled 439 feet to left field at 110.6 mph and landed in the back of the lower section, the furthest of his young Orioles career.

“That one felt good, that one felt really good,” Alonso said. “I thought I had a chance to get up there (second deck). But again, I was just really happy I was able to come through right there, especially to cap off that big inning. That inning was the big blow from us. It felt really good to come through right there.”

Rutschman’s run-scoring single in the fifth gave him 10 RBIs in his last six games.

“He’s just such a stellar hitter,” Alonso said. “He’s not afraid to take guys out in the deep water and deep counts. Just such professional at-bats every single time he steps in the box. He defends the standard really well of just what professionalism is at the plate. He’s swinging a hell of a bat right now, and also too, I can’t tell you how important he is for the work he does behind the dish calling games, receiving, trying to steal strikes, holding guys on.

“He’s one of the big pillars that we have here, and I mean, dude’s a stud.”

Rutschman tweaked his hamstring while running the bases Sunday and wasn’t available until tonight.

“It’s just an interesting injury, just trying to manage everything, see how it feels, check off all the boxes,” he said. “I made it through today. I’m really happy, just because you never know with injuries how they’re gonna formulate over days and stuff. So really happy to be in there today.”

The Mariners also sent nine batters to the plate in the top of the fourth and scored four times to cut the lead to 6-5. Luke Raley and Dominic Canzone hit back-to-back homers after Randy Arozarena’s leadoff walk. Canzone’s golfed a low curveball.

Julio Rodríguez had a two-out RBI single.

Bradish allowed five runs and seven hits with three walks and five strikeouts. Tyler Wells entered in the fifth, his second-earliest appearance of the season, and he retired the first eight batters and nine of 10. Wells struck out four, and a walk was the only smudge on his line.

“With the weather coming in, I was honestly really happy about it,” Wells said. “Make sure that we didn’t waste anyone else in the bullpen for a possible short outing. Really happy with the results, really happy with the confidence that Alby (manager Craig Albernaz) had in me to go out there for that third, and overall I can’t complain about it at all. Super happy with the outing.”

Wells completed three relief innings for the third time in his career and the first since April 3, 2023 in Texas. He’s never allowed a run in those outings.

“I think Alby said it at the beginning of the year where it’s like a Swiss army knife type of thing where it just kind of feels like I could be used in really anywhere,” he said. “I’m really just trying to embrace that and continue to be able to focus on the process and just going out there and executing pitches. Whenever you’re kind of in a situation where it’s a little chaotic, you don’t know when you’re going in, it’s kind of all over the place in a certain sense. You really just have to keep the consistent mindset with it and that’s definitely helped me out a lot with that.”

Cole Young hit a leadoff homer in the top of the first inning. Bradish got ahead 0-2 with his four-seam fastball and curveball, but Young lined a slider over the fence in right-center field.

Rodríguez also was down 0-2, took a curveball out of the strike zone and singled into center field. Josh Naylor worked the count full from 0-2 and grounded into a 6-3 double play, and Arozarena struck out on a 2-2 sinker after falling behind 0-2.

The inning cost Bradish 20 pitches but only one run. Finding favorable counts wasn’t an issue.

A sinker to Naylor that missed outside was clocked at 99.1 mph, the fastest of Bradish’s career.

Bradish struck out the side in the second inning – twice with his sinker and once with his slider – and he escaped a two-on, two-out jam in the third. The fourth was a 28-pitch terror that left him at 85.

In his last two starts, Bradish has allowed 10 runs and 16 hits over eight innings to raise his ERA from 3.44 to 4.30.

“They put some good swings on some good pitches,” he said. “The two-strike curveball looked like it was about to bounce, and the down-in slider, I’m not mad about that pitch. He just got to it and hit it 92, and it barely got out. I think the biggest thing were the two walks, just can’t happen, especially after we put up six.

“I felt great, even in the first tinning, leadoff homer. It wasn’t a terrible pitch. He just got the barrel to it, then bounced back, but I think overall this was probably one of the better outings, at least mentally for me. Doesn’t look like that in the box score, but I think there were some good things.”

Rico Garcia retired the first two batters in the eighth, allowed back-to-back singles and watched Grant Wolfram strand the runners. Andrew Kittredge earned his first save, but not until Rodríguez reached second base with one out on defensive replacement Blaze Alexander’s error at third.

“The standard is really high and we’re making sure that we continue to live up to that standard every day,” Wells said. “So for whenever we are struggling and we’re not living up to that standard, I know that there are people out there that are frustrated, but I can assure them that we’re even more frustrated. And I think that you start to see the fruits of the labor of the guys who continue to work hard, keep their head down, keep their mindset consistent.”

Basallo went 0-for-4 in his first start since Sunday. He fouled a ball off his lower right leg in the eighth, hopped out of the box, bent over and grabbed his bat. None of the athletic training staff came out of the dugout. Nothing to see here.

“I think, for him, he’s a very smart player, but just kind of understands how injuries are, they’re tough, and you obviously don’t want them to bigger,” Rutschman said. “He’s smart with stuff, and smarter than his age.”

Moo vs. Woo

Cowser’s home run was his third in his last six games and fourth in 11. He drove a fastball 416 feet to left-center field at 108.5 mph.

His first six homers this season traveled an average distance of 418 feet, the further in the majors for any player with at least five. Tonight’s shot was another missile.

The night began with Cowser slashing .300/.368/.617 (18-for-60) with six homers in 23 games since May 17. He appears to be settling in as the primary center fielder unless he slides over to left with Taylor Ward serving as designated hitter.

Woo tied his career high with seven runs allowed over five innings.

“Bryan Woo is a really tough pitcher,” Albernaz said. “This whole starting rotation for Seattle is really impressive and Woo is a tough, tough guy to get up there and do some damage on, and our guys did a good job of, especially in that inning where we put up six, of getting a pitch to hit and putting a good swing on it. Cowser getting it going and obviously Pete with the big blow, Adley with a double. It was really impressive to watch, our offensive performance.”

Pham won’t be part of Orioles family

Outfielder Tommy Pham is expected to opt out of his contract with Triple-A Norfolk, according to a source.

Pham signed a minor league deal on May 16 that included a June 12 opt-out clause. He went a combined 1-for-5 with his fourth home run in today’s doubleheader at Norfolk and batted .197 with a .696 OPS and 21 strikeouts in 16 games.

In his last six games, Pham was 7-for-26 with three home runs, including a grand slam, and nine RBIs.

The Baltimore Sun first reported the opt out.

Also on the farm

Double-A Chesapeake’s Luis De León tossed five hitless innings with seven strikeouts. He walked two. Alex Pham kept the no-hit bid going until the seventh, when he gave up back-to-back two-out singles.

Aron Estrada hit his 10th home run, a leadoff shot in the first inning.

High-A Frederick’s Caden Hunter allowed one run and three hits in four innings, with three walks and four strikeouts. Elis Cuevas hit his seventh home run.

Vance Honeycutt was removed for a pinch-hitter in the top of the third inning due to left quadriceps tightness.

Single-A Delmarva’s Stephen Still tossed four scoreless innings with two hits and seven strikeouts to lower his ERA to 1.13.