James McCann hit two house runs to assist the visiting Baltimore Orioles stretch their successful streak to seven video games by beating the Boston Purple Sox 13-12 on Saturday.
McCann belted a two-run house run within the fourth inning and hit a solo shot within the sixth. The homers have been his fifth and sixth of the season.
Aaron Hicks hit his eighth homer, Jordan Westburg added his third and Gunnar Henderson belted his twenty fourth for the Orioles (90-51), who maintained a four-game lead over Tampa Bay on the prime of the American League East standings. Tampa Bay defeated Seattle 7-5 on Saturday.
Baltimore’s seven consecutive victories have all come on the street.
The Purple Sox scored three runs in opposition to Yennier Cano within the backside of the ninth however stranded the tying run on third base.
Shintaro Fujinami (7-8) earned the win after pitching 1 2/3 innings of scoreless aid.
Boston (72-70) has misplaced 4 in a row general and has dropped its final six house video games. Wilyer Abreu collected 5 of Boston’s 23 hits within the loss.
It was 2-2 within the prime of the third when Hicks hit a three-run house run in opposition to Boston beginning pitcher Chris Sale (6-4), who allowed seven runs (six earned) in 4 innings. Earlier within the third Jorge Mateo scored Baltimore’s second run on an Anthony Santander double.
McCann adopted with the primary of his two homers, which prolonged Baltimore’s result in 7-2 within the fourth inning.
Justin Turner’s twenty third house run handed the Purple Sox a 2-0 lead within the first inning, however the Orioles sliced that deficit in half within the second when Hicks scored on Trevor Story’s throwing error.
Boston added 4 runs within the fourth. Connor Wong received issues going with an RBI single earlier than Alex Verdugo hit a sacrifice fly that drove in Enmanuel Valdez. Wong scored on Henderson’s fielding error, and Rafael Devers made it 7-6 when he scored on a Triston Casas groundout.
Westburg and McCann added solo house runs within the sixth to increase the result in 9-6, and Henderson’s three-run homer within the seventh pushed the result in 12-6.
Boston answered with three runs within the backside of the seventh. Abreu hit a two-run double after which scored on a Devers single.
Ramon Urias drove in Austin Hays with a single within the ninth to offer Baltimore a 13-9 lead earlier than Story’s two-run double and Abreu’s RBI single pulled Boston inside a run within the backside of the inning.
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