Dylan Beavers drove in three runs during Baltimore’s eight-run third inning and the Orioles went on to defeat the visiting Cleveland Guardians 9-5 on Wednesday.
Beavers produced a two-run double and an RBI single during the big inning, and Leody Taveras rapped two singles in the frame.
Baltimore’s Coby Mayo added a solo homer in the sixth.
The Orioles (71-76), who won for just the second time in the past nine games, claimed the first and third games of the three-game series. They completed a 2-5 homestand.
Baltimore starter Shane Baz (6-15) received much-needed run support to pick up his second victory in 15 starts since mid-June. He left after 5 2/3 innings, charged with five runs on six hits and one walk with five strikeouts. Rico Garcia got the final four outs his seventh save.
Chase DeLauter’s two-run homer in the first inning and Nathaniel Lowe’s two-run blast in the sixth were highlights for the Guardians (74-73). DeLauter, Angel Genao and Steven Kwan had two hits apiece.
Cleveland starter Foster Griffin (15-5) lasted 2 1/3 innings, allowing eight runs on seven hits with two walks and four strikeouts.
Baltimore’s Carlos Navaez posted two hits.
DeLauter, who missed the previous four games because of a wrist injury, hammered his 14th homer before an out was recorded in the game. Kwan led off with a single before DeLauter hit a 410-foot shot to right.
Beavers tied the game with his two-run double in the third, and he scored the go-ahead run when Christian Encarnacion-Strand was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded. Jackson Holliday’s single made it 4-2, and Rece Hinds followed with a sacrifice fly for the first out of the inning.
Jeremiah Jackson, who was recalled from the minors by the Orioles earlier in the day, stretched the lead to 6-2 with a run-scoring single. Taveras then singled in a run, marking the last batter Griffin faced — and the 10th of the inning.
Beavers knocked in the final run of the frame with a two-out single off Matt Festa. The inning ended with the bases loaded.
Lowe delivered a two-out, two-run homer in the sixth, his 17th of the season. Patrick Bailey’s subsequent RBI double allowed Cleveland to cut the gap to 8-5 before Baz’s exit.
Mayo homered in the bottom of the sixth to curtail Cleveland’s momentum. It was his third long ball of the series and 22nd of the year.
–Field Level Media
