BOSTON -- After a laborious first inning -- needing 36 pitches, just 18 for strikes, facing seven batters, allowing two runs on a J.D. Martinez two-run homer -- right-hander Kevin Gausman appeared to settle down against the Red Sox on Thursday night at Fenway Park. He faced one batter over the minimum in his next three innings.
But Gausman came undone in the fifth to post his worst start since his first appearance of the season, as the Orioles dropped the opener of their four-game series with the Sox, 6-2.
Gausman went 4 2/3 innings, giving up six runs on eight hits and two walks with six strikeouts and a wild pitch.