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He allowed two runs and four hits in his 5 1/3 innings, walking two and striking out a career-high nine. That was more than sufficient support for Wells (4-2), who was pulled immediately following Sabol's homer in the bottom of the sixth.

McCann's homer, a solo shot, came in the sixth, increasing the Baltimore lead to 7-0. Hays and Aaron Hicks scored on the hit, and when Austin Slater threw errantly trying to keep the damage to a minimum, Mountcastle followed his teammates to the plate to double the Baltimore advantage.ĭeSclafani was pulled at inning's end, charged with six runs (five earned) on five hits in three innings. The teams were scoreless for two innings before McCann drew a walk and Jorge Mateo doubled off Giants starter Anthony DeSclafani (4-5) to open the floodgates in the decisive third.Ī sacrifice fly by Adam Frazier, RBI single by Austin Hays and bases-loaded walk drawn by Ryan Mountcastle made it 3-0 before Lester, promoted from Triple-A earlier in the day, lashed the game's most productive hit to center field. James McCann homered and Josh Lester drove in two runs in his Orioles debut, helping Baltimore, which has alternated losses and wins in its last eight games, take two of three from San Francisco.īlake Sabol belted his seventh home run of the season, a two-run shot, for the Giants, who completed a disappointing 2-4 homestand against the Pittsburgh Pirates and Orioles. 'It's definitely felt like a grind to get through these last couple of months,' Means said.Tyler Wells took a shutout into the sixth inning and the Baltimore Orioles scored three runs on a single to center field as part of a six-run third en route to an 8-3 victory over the host San Francisco Giants on Sunday afternoon. He has logged 119 1/3 total innings this year, compared to 43 2/3 over a shortened 2020 season. Orioles: LHP John Means (5-6, 3.47 ERA) is looking for his first win since July 31. Royals: RHP Carlos Hernandez (5-1, 3.57 ERA) is 4-0 with a 1.91 ERA and 31 strikeouts and just 10 walks over his last seven appearances (42 innings). 'I don't know if it's season-ending or not,' Hyde said. RHP Hunter Harvey is dealing with a right triceps strain and remains on his rehab assignment with triple-A Norfolk. Hyde hopes he can get in the lineup over the next couple of days. Orioles: 1B/DH Trey Mancini (oblique) is still sidelined with soreness. Perez moved into sole possession of third place on the Royals' all-time list with his 194th career home run.

'We had some things get away from us today.' 'To have one inning that gets away from us like that, our worst inning of the year, that is hard to swallow,' Royals manager Mike Matheny said. The Orioles matched their largest comeback of the season, joining an 8-7 win on July 28 against the Marlins when they overcame a 5-0 disadvantage after two innings. 'This is the moment I have been waiting for since I was a little kid.' 'Baseball-wise, this is probably the pinnacle of my career right now,' Barreda said. Manny Barreda (1-0) picked up his first career win. However, Tyler Wells got the last out and earned his second save.īenintendi finished with three hits and five RBIs. For us to battle back and win today was huge.'ĭillon Tate allowed a two-out, three-run homer to Andrew Benintendi in the ninth that cut Baltimore's lead to 9-8. It's very easy to do that this late in the year. Mountcastle capped the rally with his 26th homer.

Anthony Santander and pinch-hitter Ramon Urias had RBI singles off Josh Staumont (3-3), cutting the deficit to 5-3.Īfter Gutierrez's two-run single off Jake Brentz, Mullins hit a fly ball between right fielder Hunter Dozier and center fielder Edward Olivares, who bumped into one another, allowing two runs to score. 'Today was one of those games you just have to forget about it.'Īustin Hays extended his career-best 15-game hitting streak with an RBI double in the eighth for Baltimore's first run. 'I never see something like that in my career,' Perez said about the outcome. He leads the majors with 104 RBIs, moving one ahead of Jose Abreu, of the Chicago White Sox, who plays later Wednesday at Oakland.

Salvador Perez hit his 42nd homer for Kansas City and trails Shohei Ohtani by one for most in MLB.

Orioles score series#

We don't get too many of those usually.'īaltimore has taken two of three from the Royals, who haven't won a series at Camden Yards since April 2014. 'It took us eight innings to put some at-bats together. 'We haven't had too many of those types of innings in the last few years,' Orioles manager Brandon Hyde said. BALTIMORE - Kelvin Gutierrez hit a game-tying two-run single, two Kansas City outfielders collided on a ball hit by Cedric Mullins, allowing two more runs to score, and Ryan Mountcastle followed with a two-run homer as the Baltimore Orioles scored all their runs in the eighth inning in a 9-8 win over the Royals on Wednesday night.