SEATTLE – On Wednesday night, Kyle Bradish went where no Oriole has gone this season. The veteran right-hander was in control for most of the game in a 5-3 victory over the Mariners on Wednesday night in T-Mobile Park, and he went 7 2/3 innings, marking the longest start by a Baltimore pitcher this season. Bradish gave up one run on five hits while posting a career-high 12 strikeouts. He became the first Orioles pitcher with 12 or more strikeouts since John Means in his 27-up, 27-down no-hitter on May 5, 2021 -- which also came in Seattle. “K.B. was outstanding tonight,” Orioles manager Craig Albernaz said. “I mean, 100 pitches, 12 strikeouts, one walk, he obviously was efficient, but the pairing of the two breaking balls with the heater was really fun to watch. There were some really good pitches on some really good hitters that they got them to chase, and that just speaks to the stuff that K.B. has.” Bradish got all the offensive support he’d need in the top of the third inning when Blaze Alexander singled off Seattle starter George Kirby and two batters later, Gunnar Henderson hit a towering fly ball to right field that landed in the first row of the bleachers to give Baltimore a 2-0 lead. The Mariners got on the scoreboard in the bottom of the fourth inning when Julio Rodríguez hit a two-out double to right-center field and the next hitter, Dominic Canzone, singled up the middle for an RBI to make it 2-1. But Bradish escaped from that jam and got out of another potential spot of trouble in the seventh when he issued a leadoff walk to Canzone but retired the next three batters in order. Bradish came into the game having struggled in his previous two starts, giving up a combined 10 earned runs on 16 hits in eight combined innings against Toronto and the Mariners, whom the Orioles faced in Baltimore on June 11. But Bradish said that previous outing vs. Seattle was better than it looked -- at least from his perspective.
