Orioles bash four homers in string of five batters against Astros

However, that didn’t bother the Astros too much.

Houston bounced back from a first inning in which Astros starter Collin McHugh allowed the four homers and five runs. In the second, the South Korean smacked another single off Musgrove and got an RBI this time, giving the Orioles a 5-1 lead.

“It was really just pitch execution”, manager A.J. Hinch said. A long reliever – or three – in the bullpen, and eventually you’ll need to use him.

Altuve finished 3-for-6 with a two-run homer, a two-run double and an RBI single.

Houston (62-60) had five RBIs from Jose Altuve and four hits by George Springer.

CLEVELAND – Tyler Naquin’s sacrifice fly in the ninth inning drove in the winning run as Cleveland beat Chicago. We are right there in this thing, but I’ve got to go out and give us a chance to. They hit five home runs in all, and still managed to get embarrassed by the Houston Astros.

Springer, Gattis and Hernandez each homered as the Astros scored in seven of the nine innings and stunned the Orioles (67-54).

“It’s going to happen throughout the course of the year”, he said. “It doesn’t matter if we’re losing by five or six runs”. “And when we were, we weren’t as consistent with making them pay as we were tonight”.

Justin Turner and Yasmani Grandal went deep for the Dodgers, who began play 1 1/2 games in front of the San Francisco Giants in the NL West. Back-to-back-to-back home runs for the Orioles, bookended by a Mark Trumbo dinger.

Indians starter Danny Salazar came off the disabled list to make his first appearance since August 1 and was removed from the game after a 34-pitch, three-walk, three-run first inning.

After the teams traded five-run innings, Baltimore went up 7-6 in the third and Houston pulled even in the fourth.

Odrisamer Despaigne, who was with the club earlier this season, is listed as Norfolk’s starter for Saturday, and could be headed here since Wilson was optioned to the Tides after the game. As Showalter likes to say, eventually someone was going to pay for the struggles the Orioles had been having. “You would have liked to go back out there with it 5-1 and get a shutdown inning”. “I know [Miley] is frustrated, but he’s not the only one who struggled pitching tonight”. After getting Adam Jones to ground out, Hyun Soo Kim singled and Manny Machado doubled to put runners on 2nd and 3rd. “I like to throw fastballs”, the right-hander said. “Today’s game in general was kind of a insane”.

That run came on Pedro Alvarez’s solo homer in the fifth. Worley allowed two runs on four hits and a home run in two innings before Zach Britton came on to get the last out.

Naquin followed with a drive that hit the top of the right-field wall, above the leap of Michael Saunders.

Home runs by rookies Alex Bregman and A.J. Reed weren’t enough as the Orioles banged up rookie pitchers Joe Musgrove and James Hoyt. But after a two-home run explosion on Thursday night (his first multi-home run game of the season), Davis now appears to be back on track to surpass the 30 home run plateau for the fourth time in the past five years. Hernandez blooped an RBI single to center and Springer greeted Tyler Wilson with a run-scoring single. The group has combined for 116 home runs in 2016 just by themselves.

The Astros took a 9-7 lead against Ubaldo Jimenez (5-10) in the fifth. Hardy in the bottom half of the inning to push their lead to 7-2.

“It was bad. It’s embarrassing for that to happen”, he said.