Machado’s 3-run homer lifts Orioles over Dodgers 4-1

A trained bald eagle flew to temporary freedom on Monday at Dodger Stadium, using the Los Angeles Dodgers’ July 4 pregame ceremony to declare independence from his trainers at the Los Angeles Zoo.

Tillman is tied for second in the AL in wins and has a WHIP of just 1.25 after allowing one run on five hits with two strikeouts in seven strong innings. Los Angeles will be represented by three players in next week’s All-Star Game in San Diego. Everyone is pretty spent usually. Baltimore manager Buck Showalter kidded with his charges when he broke the news to them: “The good news is that you made the team, the bad news is you made the team”, he quipped in reference to the team’s demanding travel schedule this month.

Brach struck out the side swinging in the eighth before turning it over to Britton, who hasn’t allowed an earned run in his last 24 games since May 5.

Baltimore starter Chris Tillman allowed one run in seven innings in his first career game against the Dodgers.

Chase Utley had six hits for the Dodgers, who used 22 players. With one out, Machado walked and Davis grounded out to third. In the first inning, Thompson leaped and hit the center-field wall to snag Machado’s drive with a runner at second. Center fielder Adam Jones tried to make a sliding backhanded catch, but the ball landed in front of him.

“To win the East by the margin we did, that spoke volumes to the defense, the guys behind the plate and the starters on the mound”, Norris added. Yasmani Grandal was intentionally walked to load the bases before Hatcher’s groundout ended the marathon.

“It’s an extra-inning baseball game”, a somber Hatcher said.

Let me stop you before you get worrying too much about Chinook or start looking too deep for a Fourth of July metaphor.

The Dodgers took a 4-3 lead on Gonzalez’s two-run single in the fifth. Gonzalez moved to third on a wild pitch but stayed there when Gausman struck out Thompson. Vance Worley put the winning run on second base in a two-on, one-out jam in the 11th by getting a 4-6-3 double-play ball from Adrian Gonzalez. The right-hander surrendered five hits and two walks, and he struck out two while throwing 100 pitches.

Meanwhile, the Orioles rotation is coming off a four game series in Seattle in which they accounted for only 18 innings in the four games in Seattle, and allowed 21 runs while doing it. “We just have to keep grinding out wins and get more efforts like we got from Chris tonight”. The Orioles entered the game leading the major leagues with 129 home runs. Gausman, who never has faced Los Angeles, is 0-5 with a 5.02 ERA in eight starts on the road this year.Norris was superb in his debut with the Dodgers on Friday, limiting Colorado to two hits and a walk while striking out eight over six scoreless innings in the victory. Tommy Davis’ 20-game streak in 1960 holds the team record.

The Orioles are 7-2 in their last 9 during game 3 of a series and 1-4 in Gausmans last 5 starts. He had left shoulder surgery in May 2015 after going 14-7 with a 3.38 ERA in 2014.