Mancini's impressive RISP stats and other notes from last night

Not only did Trey Mancini hit game-tying and game-winning home runs for the Orioles last night, but he added to some amazing stats he is compiling when he bats with runners in scoring position.

Mancini is now batting .483 (14-for-29) with six homers, 24 RBIs and an OPS of 1.672 when batting with runners in scoring position. Last night, he hit with a runner in scoring position and two outs each time he batted. For the season, when he hits with RISP and two outs, Mancini is batting .583 (7-for-12) with three homers, 11 RBIs and a 2.083 OPS.

His two-run homer in the ninth tied the game 6-6 and it came off Pittsburgh's Tony Watson. Mancini hit the ball with a 104 mph exit velocity and drove it 390 feet to right-center. His walk-off three-run shot in the 11th came off Wade LeBlanc. He hit that one 109 mph and 406 feet to left.

According to baseball-reference.com, Mancini is the second player ever to hit a game-tying, two-out, ninth-inning pinch-hit homer and a walk-off blast in the same game. Brian McCann did it for Atlanta on May 17, 2011.

Mancini became the third player since 1961 to enter a game in the ninth inning or later and drive in five or more runs. Harold Baines did it for the Orioles against the Chicago White Sox on May 4, 1999. Adam LaRoche did it for the Nationals against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Sept. 3, 2014.

According to STATS, Mancini is the first Oriole to hit a pinch-hit homer in the ninth inning or later and then hit another homer in the same game. This was his third two-homer game of the year and first career pinch-hit homer.

Did Mancini have some boosted confidence and momentum at bat in the 11th after he had homered two innings earlier?

"A little bit. I felt good going up there," he said. "I knew he (LeBlanc) had a fastball/cutter mix that he liked to go with. He threw me a cutter inside and luckily got around it because it was a little inside, but I was just trying to get a base hit there again and not try to do too much."

Mancini is now 3-for-6 when batting as a pinch-hitter.

"It's something (pinch-hitting) that you kind of practice over time, honestly. I didn't have a ton of experience before coming up here in September. It's something you learn really quickly to do and we have all the resources we need here. We have video and everybody that starts the game on the bench goes into the cage throughout the game, stays loose, watches some video on the pitchers we might face. That preparation really helps with some comfort-ability up there once you go into the game."

The Orioles produced two walk-off wins the last two nights. They now have a major league leading six walk-off wins. In the two-game Pittsburgh series they were outscored by the Pirates 8-2 in the first six innings. But in innings seven and on, they outscored the Bucs, 13-3. The Orioles hit seven homers the last two games with six of them coming in the seventh inning or later.

Catcher Caleb Joseph talked about the Orioles rallying from two runs down in the ninth Tuesday and four down in the ninth Wednesday to comeback and win.

"People just grinding out at-bats and we never gave up," he said. "It was similar to (Tuesday) night, there was no panic in the dugout. It felt like 2014, when you might be down to your last two or three outs and we felt like we would win. It's the kind of win you have to have to be a championship-caliber team. Great team win."

Joseph on Mancini: "When you're watching at home on TV it looks really easy. He makes it look easy and I promise you it is not easy to do, to come off the bench and get hits. It really amazes me. To come in and make an impact, not just once but twice, it really is amazing. That's the type of player Trey is. Trey is ready at all times. That's the type of player we love and we need to have on this team, to pick us up when we need him."

Wade Miley on Mancini: "That is pretty special. He's a special player. He knows what he's doing. For being a younger guy, he has a really good plan up there. When he's seeing the ball well lookout."

The Orioles began the Pittsburgh series with a record of 2-23 when trailing after eight innings. Now they are 4-23.

Those four wins leads the American League in such games. The rest of the AL East has five combined such wins with Tampa Bay 3-28, New York 2-23, Boston 0-25 and Toronto 0-26.

Tonight the Orioles play in Washington, then they play three games in New York against the Yankees followed by four against the White Sox in Chicago. Now they look to take the momentum from the two comebacks on the road. They are just 1-9 in their past 10 road games and are 10-16 on the road for the season.

New record at Bowie: Mancini is not the only one that had a great night on Wednesday. At Double-A Bowie the Baysox split a doubleheader at Reading. In their Game 1 win by a 12-5 score, Baysox first baseman Aderlin Rodriguez drove in a team-record nine runs.

The previous Bowie single-game record for RBIs was eight, done five times previously. Rodriguez went 5-for-5 and homered twice. He had a two-run bloop single in the first, an RBI single in the second, a two-run homer in the fourth, a three-run homer in sixth and an RBI single in the seventh.

Over 57 games, the 25-year-old Rodriguez has hit .305/.372/.500 with 10 doubles, 11 homers, 40 RBIs and an OPS of .884.