masn-baseballs-orioles.jpgCredit Tyler Wilson with a quality start this afternoon against baseball’s most productive offense. The rest was out of his hands.
The Orioles couldn’t do much with the knuckler coming out of Steve Wright’s hand.
Wright held the Orioles to one hit through four scoreless innings, allowed two runs in the fifth that temporarily tied the game and put up zeroes the rest of the way while going the distance in the Red Sox’s 7-2 victory before 43,926 at Camden Yards.
Wright has three complete games…

Credit Tyler Wilson with a quality start this afternoon against baseball’s most productive offense. The rest was out of his hands.

The Orioles couldn’t do much with the knuckler coming out of Steve Wright’s hand.

Wright held the Orioles to one hit through four scoreless innings, allowed two runs in the fifth that temporarily tied the game and put up zeroes the rest of the way while going the distance in the Red Sox’s 7-2 victory before 43,926 at Camden Yards.

Wright has three complete games in the majors, all of them coming this month. He retired 13 of the last 15 batters today.

Marco Hernandez broke open the game in the eighth inning with his first major league home run, a three-run shot off Mychal Givens.

Wilson surrendered three runs and eight hits in 6 2/3 innings, with two walks, four strikeouts and a home run. He threw 97 pitches, 64 for strikes.

Wilson has registered four quality starts in his last five outings. He was removed today after a two-out walk to Xander Bogaerts in the seventh brought David Ortiz to the plate.

Caleb Joseph threw out Bogaerts trying to steal – the call on the field had to be overturned – to complete Wilson’s line.

Jonathan Schoop’s infield single leading off the bottom of the second was the only hit off Wright until Nolan Reimold opened the fifth with a triple into right-center field. He scored on Ryan Flaherty’s double, Joseph’s single and Adam Jones’ lifted sacrifice fly to right field to tie the game.

Flaherty didn’t have an RBI before yesterday. Now, he’s got two.

Joseph came close to his first RBI today, but Flaharty had to stop at third base on the single.

Reimold reached base three times with a triple and two walks.

Rookie Ashur Tolliver, making his third major league appearance, served up a long home run to Ortiz in the eighth to expand the Red Sox’s lead to 4-2. He retired Jackie Bradley Jr. on a fly ball to left and walked Travis Shaw, both left-handed hitters.

Switch-hitting Blake Swihart singled and Givens replaced Tolliver.

Tyler Wilson throws white.jpgIt didn’t go well.

Ryan Hanigan popped up, but Hernandez homered to give Boston a 7-2 lead.

Left-handed hitters were 14-for-28 with five doubles and a home run off Givens, who came back out for the ninth and stranded two runners by striking out Shaw.

The game began with a controversial no-call on a ball that clearly hit Bogaerts’ foot. It was deemed a live ball and Mookie Betts scored from second base as Joseph threw out Bogaerts and no one covered the plate. The play can’t be reviewed.

Joseph was taken to the hospital as a precaution after being hit in the groin area by a foul ball.

Left-hander T.J. McFarland worked two scoreless innings at Triple-A Norfolk, throwing 27 pitches. Manager Buck Showalter said there’s nothing imminent regarding McFarland returning to the Orioles.

Here’s more from Showalter:

On Wright: “I told you before the game, he’s the sixth-best ERA in the American League. And if you put the National League in it, it would probably be higher than that in all of baseball. It’s quite a weapon for a team to have, a guy who you can run out there on three-four days’ rest. It doesn’t matter. And throw 120-whatever and don’t worry about it and pitch in extra-inning games. He’s been solid for them. He’s finally healthy. I was looking at his history on the plane coming in. Good job by the Red Sox staying with him and working through it. He’s been doing it for a long time.”

On challenge of not facing many knucklers: “Oh yeah. It’s not something … How do you prepare for it? It’s different. You hope they don’t have a real good one. I told you all before, if you see weak ground balls and some topped ground balls and weak fly balls early, he has a good one. And the catcher’s not catching it very clean. You actually like to see your catcher not catching it clean early. Kind of tells you he’s got a lot of movement.”

On bottom third of order being productive: “Well, I appreciate you putting that positive note out there. I was thinking about it as the game progressed. Nolan was on base, what, three times? We had a shot there with the bases loaded.”

On Wilson: “Tyler was really good. To hold that team to three runs for basically seven innings and overcome some challenges he had. He just kept regathering and getting us back in the dugout. I was just wishing we could hold it at 3-2, but we couldn’t. We had two, really 2 1/2 guys I wasn’t going to pitch, so we knew Mike was the last guy we were going to use. Tough. But I thought the foul ball they didn’t get in the first inning was a tough way to start it.”

On not being able to review it: “No, because the reason is that if you do the reverse of that, where do you place the runners. Where he doesn’t run, now they go back. Do they call back and say they challenged and bring him back to home plate? If you do the reversal of it is the reason they give about why they don’t challenge it. Yeah, I give the same look you’re giving right now. We’ll talk about it.”

More on apparent foul ball: “I was hoping the first base ump would see it, but it’s hard. We can’t see it from the dugout and we’re closer than the first base umpire for sure. Usually, the hitter gives you a reaction that shows you what’s going on, but he didn’t. He smelled a hit and took off. Made good use of the play. We were able to overturn a couple other mistakes, but we couldn’t overturn that one.”

On the overturned caught-stealing allowing Ortiz to see Tolliver a second time: “I’ll take that out every time, and if we had scored some runs, we might have tried to push the envelope on (Brad) Brach, but we weren’t going to there. If good hitters see a guy more than once and they’re not going to have success against them, you probably don’t have the right guy. But Ashur presented himself well. There have been a lot of people that have had trouble getting him out. He’s handled left-handed pitching very well this year. He just got a changeup up.”

More on Wilson: “He’s got three pitches you’ve got to think about. He can command the baseball. He’s got really solid makeup and never gives in. Playing a day game with the ball flying out of here and sitting in the bullpen yesterday in Cleveland, get in late and another quick turnaround, he’s out there competing. A lot of people miss on guys like him. They’re always looking for some prototype guy. I actually find him prototype.”