Leftovers for breakfast

Félix Bautista struck out Riley Greene on a 100 mph fastball Sunday afternoon to finish the top of the ninth inning, a pitch that didn’t coax a swing out of the Tigers’ center fielder. Akil Baddoo also struck out on a four-seamer after Jonathan Schoop grounded out.

A crowd of more than 30,000 erupted, and the Orioles won in the 10th on a wild pitch that scored Adam Frazier.

Bautista didn’t get a win or a hold, but he had clean inning.

No baserunners to disrupt his outing or remind him of the restrictions imposed by the new rules.

Teams are 4-for-4 in attempted steals while Bautista is on the mound, beginning with Aaron Judge on April 7 after a two-out walk.

Jace Peterson took second base with two outs on defensive indifference after his leadoff single on April 10. Seby Zavala advanced with two outs on a wild pitch on April 16 in Chicago.

But then, teams began to run again.

The Nationals’ Alex Call swiped second on Tuesday with two outs and the Orioles clinging to a 1-0 lead, and the Tigers were 2-for-2 on Friday.

Bautista couldn’t hold a 1-0 lead, fumbling his second save but getting the win on Adam Frazier’s walk-off fielder’s choice grounder. The Tigers tied the game after Baddoo led off with a single and stole second, putting him in scoring position for Javier Báez’s two-out, two-strike single.

Báez stole second with ease and was stranded.

Manager Brandon Hyde mentioned on Friday how Bautista is “just a little bit slow to the plate.”

“That’s a big man with kind of a long arm swing, and there’s been a lot of really, really good closers that you can get jumps on and can run on,” Hyde said. “He’s still early in his career, obviously, second year. He’s going to continue to improve in that area.”

Opponents have put a runner on base in eight of Bautista’s 11 outings. Masataka Yoshida reached with two outs in the ninth on Ryan McKenna’s dropped fly ball, and he scored on Adam Duvall’s walk-off home run. Otherwise, Bautista would have retired the side in order.

Bautista said he’s still adapting to the new rules limiting pickoff throws and disengagements.

“I think from a pitcher’s standpoint, the rules don’t play out in our favor as much,” he said via translator Brandon Quinones. “Now, runners have more opportunity to get better looks at you, time you out. The pickoff rule, just time it out a little bit better. So, it is something that we’re working on and just trying to get better at every day, get more accustomed to the rules and the way that it’s affecting the game. It is one of those things where runners have the better advantage right now.”

* Austin Hays batted leadoff last night and lined a go-ahead single into left field in the fifth inning. He also singled in the seventh, this time on a liner to right, as the Orioles improved to 8-0 in series openers.

Hays has 59 hits in 50 career games against the Red Sox to tie him with Hall of Famer Frank Robinson for second-most in club history in that span.

Trey Mancini holds the record with 62 hits. Hays broke a tie with Manny Machado and passed Matt Wieters and Billy Gardner, who had 58.

Hays didn’t know anything about the list when I mentioned it after the game. Not something that’s going to get a lot of attention. But, the more you know …

* Dean Kremer had an interesting split coming into last night’s start.

Opponents were batting .400 with a 1.238 OPS against him after 1-0 counts, according to STATS, and .146 with a .576 OPS after 0-1 counts.

The latter stat was the 10th-lowest in the majors with a minimum 50 batters faced at 0-1.

Kremer got first-pitch strikes on 17 of 23 batters last night. Triston Casas jumped on the first pitch in the second inning and hit a long two-run homer, and Rafael Devers homered onto Eutaw Street on a 2-0 count in the third.




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