Central Heights' Rodriguez earns 13th win of the season

BALTIMORE (KTRE) – Former Central Heights Blue Devil Grayson Rodriguez earned his 13th win of the season in Baltimore’s 10-4 victory over Toronto on Wednesday.

Rodriguez started the game by getting George Springer to ground out to third. Joey Loperfido was struck out on the second out. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. doubled to left field before Spencer Horwitz grounded out to second to end the inning.

The Orioles offense gave Rodriguez two runs to work with in the top of the second. In the bottom half of the inning, Rodriguez tied the Blue Jays 1-2-3 with three straight strikeouts.

To lead off the third inning, Blue Jays’ Addison Barger hit a home run to right field. Rodriguez bounced back to get Brian Serven on strikes. Springer singled to left field, but Rodriguez got Loperfido and Guerrero Jr. on strikes to end the inning.

In the fourth, Rodriguez forced Horwitz to go to third for the first out of the inning. Ernie Clement singled to left field to put a runner on first with one out. Daulton Varsho flew out to right field for the second out before Rodriguez walked Davis Schneider to put runners on first and second with two outs. Barger grounded out Schneider and made it a 4-2 game in favor of the Orioles. Serven grounded out to third to end the inning.

In the fifth inning, Springer led off with a double to right field. Rodriguez had Loperfido ground out to first on the first out, but that also put Springer on third. Guerrero Jr. made a soft groundout to third on the second out, but the groundout allowed Springer to score and bring the Jays within a run at 4-3. Horwitz grounded out to first to end the inning.

Rodriguez came out for the sixth inning and got Ernie Clement to ground out to short for the first out of the inning. Rodriguez walked Varsho before striking out Schneider. Another walk was given to Addison Barger to put two on with two outs. Rodriguez’s wild pitch brought both runners up 90 feet before Serven reached on a fielding error, allowing Varsho to come in and score. Rodriguez got Springer to fly out to right to end the inning.

Rodriguez threw 96 pitches, 68 of which were strikes.

The Orioles are 65-44 this year and in first place in the AL East.

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