Outcome: L
Score: 1-4
Streak: L1
Record: 10-39
Rank: 7th
GB: 22.5
The difficulties the Orioles were having with scoring runs continued as they opened a three game series in Seattle. They got on the board quickly this evening though as Ken Gerhart led off the first with a walk and scored when Fred Lynn tripled. But that was the last of the scoring. Lynn didn't help matters by trying to score when Eddie Murray grounded to third baseman Jim Presley and got caught in a run down between Presley and catcher Scott Bradley.
Bad base running seemed to be a theme this evening as the Orioles had two runners caught stealing over the next couple innings - Murray in the fourth and Larry Sheets in the fifth.
The Mariners took the lead in the bottom of the fifth. Ken Phelps and Mickey Brantley led off the inning with back-to-back singles and Presley sacrifice bunted to move them to second and third. Mike Kingery and Rich Renteria then hit back-to-back RBI singles to put the M's up 2-1.
The Orioles looked like they were mounting a comeback in the top of the sixth when they loaded the bases with one out. But Murray grounded into a double play to end the threat.
Seattle scored two more runs - one in the sixth on an RBI single by Presley and the other in the seventh on an RBI single by Henry Cotto - to bring the score to 4-1.
Mark Langston had started for the Mariners and he pitched eight innings, giving up five hits and one run while striking out eight and walking three. The Orioles had one last chance when Seattle manager Dick Williams went to the bullpen and brought in Mike Moore in the ninth. Moore gave up a one out single to Murray and walked pinch hitter Keith Hughes to bring the tying run to the plate in the person of Larry Sheets. Williams went back to the bullpen and brought in Rod Scurry to pitch to Sheets. His third pitch went to the backstop and Murray and Hughes moved up a base. Scurry then buckled down and got Sheets and Mickey Tettleton to both fly out to left to end the ballgame.
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