Baseball: Tomoyuki Sugano pitches Orioles over Mariners

The Mainichi

3 days ago

SEATTLE (Kyodo) -- Japanese pitcher Tomoyuki Sugano continues to be the most reliable starter in the Baltimore Orioles rotation, throwing seven innings of one-run ball in a 5-1 win over the Seattle Mariners on Tuesday.
The 35-year-old Sugano (5-3) picked up the fifth win of his major league rookie season after 12 years in Japan, all with the Yomiuri Giants. The Orioles have won four straight games.
Sugano held the Mariners to five hits, including a game-tying solo home run by Rowdy Tellez in the second inning, in a 90-pitch outing at T-Mobile Park in Seattle. He walked one and struck out five.
Ryan O'Hearn gave the Orioles the lead for good at 2-1 with a two-out RBI single in the fifth.
Sugano lowered his ERA to 3.04 in his 12th start.
Among other Japanese players, Los Angeles Angels left-hander Yusei Kikuchi got a no-decision after allowing three runs in five-plus innings in a 4-3, 10-inning win over the Boston Red Sox.
Shohei Ohtani went hitless in three at-bats in the Los Angeles Dodgers' 6-5, 10-inning victory over the New York Mets, capped by Freddie Freeman's walk-off double.