Orioles jump on Red Sox early, win 8-2 at Fenway Park
Baltimore’s six-run first inning turned Fenway Park quiet fast. The 8-2 win gave the Orioles a series victory and a needed sign of life before Toronto.
The Orioles did more than beat Boston. They answered the question hanging over this road trip by exploding for six runs in the first inning, then protecting that lead behind Trevor Rogers in an 8-2 win at Fenway Park that sent Baltimore home with two wins in three games.
For a fan base that has spent much of the spring waiting for the lineup to look connected, the opening inning mattered most. Coby Mayo ripped a bases-clearing double, Taylor Ward doubled to start the inning and later drove in a run with an RBI single, and Adley Rutschman and Leody Taveras also delivered RBI singles as Baltimore batted around and seized control before the crowd of 33,180 had settled in. Samuel Basallo and Colton Cowser later helped stretch the lead to 8-0 in the fifth, giving the Orioles their biggest offensive burst of the night.
That was the kind of early support Baltimore has been searching for. Craig Albernaz said the offense was ready “from pitch one,” and Rogers made that cushion count. He carried a no-hitter into the fifth and finished 5.2 innings with one earned run, keeping Boston from ever building a counterpunch. Brayan Bello had the opposite kind of night for the Red Sox, lasting five innings, allowing eight earned runs and taking the loss after the Orioles tagged him for six runs in a first inning that forced him to throw 40 pitches right away and pushed his starter ERA to 10.35.
Boston got its first run in the sixth and added another on a solo homer in the ninth, but the game was long settled by then. Baltimore finished with 10 hits, improved to 31-33 overall and 11-18 on the road, and left Fenway with the kind of series win that can matter in a city where every surge, slump and pitching start gets weighed against the same practical question: does this travel to the next series? For one night, the Orioles looked like a club that had found an answer.
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