D-backs muster only Goldy’s RBI in loss to O’s

BALTIMORE — The Orioles did exactly what they needed to do on Sunday afternoon: complete a three-game sweep against Arizona.

Baltimore, which rebounded this weekend following a four-game sweep by the Red Sox, used Hyun-Soo Kim’s two-run homer and four scoreless innings from an impressive bullpen to edge the D-backs, 2-1, and gain ground in the American League Wild Card race.

The win, coupled with the Tigers’ loss to the Royals, gave the Orioles a 1 1/2-game lead for the AL’s second Wild Card.

“No, it doesn’t take [the sting of the Boston series] away because that’s come and gone. It really has. It left. You have to do that and our guys do it,” manager Buck Showalter said. “Do the Red Sox fold the tent when we were beating them early in the season, sometime during the season? That’s the fortitude you’ve got to have. Our guys are warriors. They grind through a lot of things. Working on short sleep, game 150-whatever. That’s a hard game to win today. It really is. And our bullpen and our starting pitcher made Kim’s home run stand up. Of course, the defense was unbelievable.”

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Orioles starter Dylan Bundy went five innings and held Arizona to a run on three hits with a walk, striking out three.

Arizona starter Braden Shipley went six innings and gave up two runs, both of which came on Kim’s homer, with six strikeouts.

Zach Britton improved to a perfect 46-for-46 in save chances on the year as the lefty continues to dominate.

“They pitch very well, Bundy pitched well, Wade Miley obviously last night pitched well and then you get into their ‘pen,” D-backs manager Chip Hale said. “It’s a very, very good ‘pen, that’s why they are in the position that they’re in to make the playoffs.”

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