Twins split squad ties Orioles

Updated Mar. 4, 2020 12:40 p.m. ET

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FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) -- Wei-Yin Chen pitched four innings of three-hit ball, Henry Urrutia homered and the Baltimore Orioles tied a Minnesota Twins' split squad 2-2 Friday.

Brandon Waring hit a two-out homer in the ninth off Troy Patton to knot the score. Patton will serve a 25-game suspension at the start of the season after a positive test for a banned amphetamine.

Chen gave up one run, walked one and struck out three. He's got a 2.00 ERA in three outings this spring training.

Tommy Hunter, poised to take over for Jim Johnson as Baltimore's closer, worked a perfect fifth inning with a strikeout. The only two runs he's allowed in four innings came on solo home runs by Boston's Will Middlebrooks.

The Orioles used two singles and a walk to load the bases with no outs in the second against Mike Pelfrey but got only one run, on a sacrifice fly by Quintin Berry.

"I would prefer not to be in those situations, but they're definitely going to happen and I thought that was good damage control," Pelfrey said.

In the bottom half, Eduardo Escobar hit an RBI single. Urrutia homered in the fifth off Brian Duensing.

Starting time: Pelfrey allowed one run, five hits and one lamentable walk in 3 1-3 innings.

"The one thing that maybe irritated me more than anything was the (Nolan) Reimold at-bat, when I got ahead and tried to throw some sliders and got into a full count and walked him," Pelfrey said.

The walk, sandwiched between two singles, led to Baltimore's only run off the right-hander.

Pelfrey likes where he stands just over two weeks before the opener.

"I have three more starts and I want to take advantage of that," he said. "I feel like there's still some arm strength to build up, but I feel good about where I'm at right now."