The Toronto Blue Jays were unable to complete the comeback against the Baltimore Orioles on Tuesday at Rogers Center and lost 6-5.
Ryan Mountcastle gave some headaches to the pitchers of the crowd favorites. The visitors’ first baseman drove in two runs on a home run in the third inning, in addition to hitting two doubles. He also circled the trails twice.
Jays pitcher Yusei Kikuchi (2-3) was the victim of Mountcastle’s long ball and saw the loss add to his record. In four innings of work, he allowed four runs on five hits and four walks.
Charlie Montoyo’s men never had the lead in this game. Matt Chapman, in the fourth inning, tied the game 3-3 with a two-run long ball, but the Orioles quickly widened the gap to 6-3 afterward.
Meanwhile, rookie Gabriel Moreno drove in his first two career major league runs. His singles, in the sixth and eighth innings respectively, cut the Orioles’ lead each time, but to no avail.
The third duel of this series which has four will be played on Wednesday. Jose Berrios (Blue Jays) and Bruce Zimmermann (Orioles) should be the starters on the mound.
Without Ryu for the rest of the season
Very bad news fell on the head of the Blue Jays a few hours before the game. The Toronto team has learned that pitcher Hyun-Jin Ryu will miss the remainder of the 2022 campaign.
The 35-year-old injured his elbow and will need surgery, according to General Manager Ross Atkins’ comments by Sportsnet.
Major League Baseball’s only organization in Canada has no idea yet of the extent of the injury and whether Ryu will need Tommy John-style surgery or surgery to partially fix it, but one thing is certain: their gunner will miss. the rest of the campaign.
The left-hander didn’t have the best start to the season, allowing 11 runs in seven-and-a-third innings over two games before his name was added to the injured list for the first time. He had even been returned to the AAA level, in order to get back into shape, which seemed to do him the greatest good. He had maintained a 1.72 ERA in three starts in May after his recall.