Chance Sisco, Rio Ruiz lift Orioles over Phillies, 5-4, for fourth straight victory
Chance Sisco and Rio Ruiz spent baseball’s shutdown this spring living together with their families at Sisco’s Florida home.
Their work together paid off in a big way Wednesday for the Orioles in a 5-4 win over the Philadelphia Phillies at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, the team’s fourth straight win and another brick in the impressive season they’re putting together.
Sisco and Ruiz each had solo home runs to build and pad the Orioles’ late lead, with Sisco adding a two-run single early and Ruiz making a wondrous play at third base to end the eighth inning and keep that lead intact.
With runners on first and second and two out, Ruiz went to his left to field a ground ball from Andrew McCutchen. As he was falling to the ground, he shoveled it toward second base. The throw made it there on its fifth hop and narrowly beat the runner to an outstretched Hanser Alberto.
