That’s a wrap on Dean Kremer’s 2025 season. He put a pretty bow on it.
Kremer made his final start tonight and shut out the Rays on one hit in 6 1/3 scoreless innings in the Orioles’ 6-0 victory before an announced crowd of 15,267 at Camden Yards. He waited through a 1 hour and 11 minute rain delay and started to deal.
Colton Cowser belted a two-run homer in the sixth, giving him 16 to tie Gunnar Henderson for second on the team, and the Orioles began their last home series by improving their record to 74-83 overall and 6-5 against Tampa Bay. They moved within two games of fourth place.
Kremer finishes with an 11-10 record, 4.23 ERA and 1.22 WHIP in 30 appearances covering 170 1/3 innings, including a bulk relief assignment. He received a standing ovation as he came out of the game at 97 pitches after nailing Junior Caminero in the back with a splitter with one out in the seventh. Kremer walked none and struck out four.
José Castillo stranded Kremer’s runner and one of his own, with Hunter Feduccia lining to third baseman Jordan Westburg for the final out. Kremer improved his ERA to 1.64 in 11 career starts against the Rays.
The first nine Rays were retired before rookie Chandler Simpson delivered a bouncing single up the middle and advanced on a wild pitch. He was stranded at third base.
Kremer threw nine pitches in the first inning and 21 in the second while again retiring the side in order. Jake Mangum saw the last 10 before flying out.
Mangum reached with one out in the fifth on left fielder Dylan Beavers’ two-base error and Kremer responded by striking out Feduccia and Carson Williams. Kremer retired the side in order on nine pitches in the sixth and struck out Brandon Lowe to open the seventh.
The Orioles scored twice in the first inning against Ryan Pepiot after Jackson Holliday drew a leadoff walk and Westburg doubled down the left field line. Henderson flied to the left-center field fence, 372 feet away, and Westburg came home on Tyler O’Neill’s grounder.
Coby Mayo led off the third with a bloop single into center field, Pepiot retired the next two batters and Henderson singled to center for his 66th RBI. Henderson stole his 28th base in 32 attempts.
Pepiot faced the Orioles four times this season and he was really good on June 16 in Tampa with one run and 11 strikeouts in eight innings. The other three fell way short, including tonight with three runs in three innings.
Westburg had a sacrifice fly off Ian Seymour in the fifth after Cowser and Mayo singled. Mayo has four multi-hit games in his last 10. Seymour drilled Samuel Basallo on the left elbow with a 90.4 mph sinker with two outs in the sixth and Cowser cleared the center field fence with a 426-foot shot.
The Rays couldn’t put up much of a fight. Colin Selby returned from the injured list and retired his three batters in the eighth, and Yaramil Hiraldo worked around a two-out walk in the ninth, striking out two and breaking one bat.
The Orioles nailed down their seventh shutout, and it began with Kremer.