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The Orioles did not provide an injury designation or say whether catcher Adley Rutschman is in concussion protocol.
Ryan O’Hearn and Dylan Carlson each hit a solo homer and the Baltimore Orioles beat the Boston Red Sox 5-1 to salvage a split of the four-game series that was interrupted by two rainouts.
There were a lot of people who were happy for Marcelo Mayer to get the call up to the Boston Red Sox on Saturday, including Nick Sogard.
The Red Sox bats fell quiet again in what wound up being a 5-1 loss to the Baltimore Orioles in Sunday’s series finale. Jarren Duran went 4 for 5 and Mayer went 2 for 4 with a double, but the club couldn’t sustain any offense until the ninth inning, by which point the Red Sox had too much ground to make up.
Baltimore Orioles catcher Adley Rutschman left Sunday’s game against the Boston Red Sox in the top of the fifth inning after taking a hard foul ball off his mask two innings earlier.
Over time, Saturday could be remembered as the day the Red Sox called up star prospect Marcelo Mayer from the minors. But the Sox still had business to take of as Mayer made his way from Worcester to Boston for the second game of Saturday’s doubleheader against the Orioles.
Rafael Devers grounded a single up the middle to drive in the winning run with one out in the bottom of the 10th inning, lifting the Boston Red Sox past the Baltimore Orioles 6-5 in the opener of a sp