Tigers held to five hits in 10-1 loss against Orioles

Chris McCosky, The Detroit News on Jun 11, 2025

Published in Baseball

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BALTIMORE — Zach Eflin continues to be a problem for the Tigers.

Making his sixth start after coming back from a lat strain, the 6-6 right-hander dominated the Tigers for six-plus innings, helping the Orioles even the series with a 10-1 win at Camden Yards.

In three career starts against the Tigers, he’s allowed three runs in 18 1/3 innings.

The Tigers managed two singles off him for six innings, one by Riley Greene, who, like Eflin, grew up in Oviedo, Fla., and attended Hagerty High School.

They finally put Eflin on the ropes in the seventh, when it was still a 2-0 game, but couldn't knock him out.

With one out, Spencer Torkelson reached on a broken-bat single and Wenceel Perez followed with another soft-liner.

Colt Keith then came within a couple of feet of putting the Tigers in the lead. He crushed a 1-0 change-up and hit it 360 feet to right field. The ball banged off the top of the out-of-town scoreboard.

Torkelson scored and the Tigers had runners at second and third.

The Orioles had lefty Keegan Akin warming. Manager AJ Hinch sent up righty-swinging Dillon Dingler to pinch hit for Jake Rogers. Orioles’ manager Tony Mansolino stuck with Eflin.

Dingler hit a hard ground ball to third baseman Ramon Urias, who threw out Perez at the plate.

Mansolino then brought in Akin and Hinch countered with righty Jahmai Jones.

Jones stuck out. Inning over. Tigers' one and only serious threat, over.

Eflin brings a six-pitch arsenal to the battle and he effectively kept baseballs off the barrel of Tigers’ hitters. He mixed his off-speed mix — change-up, sweeper and curveball — with an assortment of well-placed cutters, sinkers and four-seamers.

And he was relentless in the strike zone.

The Tigers put 20 balls in play with an average exit velocity of 84 mph and hit 10 ground-ball outs.

The night wasn’t as smooth for Tigers’ starter Casey Mize, but he was impressive in a different way, soldiering through 5 1/3 innings with seven strikeouts. There was traffic on the bases in every inning (eight hits and two walks), but he never buckled.

The only damage was a first-pitch, two-run homer by Urias in the third inning. The Orioles decided to attack first pitches in that inning. Cedric Mullins ripped a first-pitch four-seamer inside the bag at first for a double.

Urias hit the next pitch, a first-pitch sinker, on a line over the wall in left-center.

It looked like the Orioles would break the game open a couple of times, especially in the fourth, when they had runners at the corners and nobody out.

Mize, again, just dug a little deeper. He struck out Ramon Laureano with a splitter and Mullins with a dotted 97-mph sinker.

The inning ended with Urias grounding out to Keith at third base. It was Keith’s first chance in his first big league start at third.

The Orioles tacked on an insurance run off reliever Tyler Holton in the seventh and then batted around in a seven-run eighth inning. Brenan Hanifee was on the hook for two of them and Beau Brieske the other five.

Ryan O'Hearn snapped an 0 for 10 with a two-run single and Jordan Westburg followed with a three-run homer.

Lights out.