After Sam Haggerty tied the game in the top of the seventh with a two-run home run off Adam Plutko, Baltimore won its first home game of 2021 on a walk-off single by Ramón Urías, ending a four-game slide.
The first two Orioles batters in the bottom of the seventh, the final inning of regulation in doubleheaders, went quietly before Maikel Franco drew a two-out walk. The game seemed bound to join the first half of the doubleheader by going to extras when Ryan McKenna’s half swing led to a slow roller between first base and the pitcher’s mound, but Seattle pitcher Casey Sadler failed to pick up the ball clearly.
After a wild pitch sent the runners to second and third, Urías followed with a single into center to score pinch runner Rio Ruiz, delivering the Orioles their first home victory with fans in the stands since a 2-1 triumph over the Mariners on Sept. 22, 2019 — a span of 570 days.
In Tuesday afternoon’s opener, the Orioles fell, 4-3, in eight innings. While the Mariners had capitalized on their automatic runner in the top half of the eighth inning — with Kyle Seager driving a long double off Tanner Scott — the Orioles couldn’t do the same.
