Orioles walk off with win on Mullins’s two-run HR

Cedric Mullins hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the Orioles a 4-2 victory over Minnesota on Wednesday and a three-game sweep of the Twins in Baltimore. It was the first walkoff homer for Mullins. Gunnar Henderson and Anthony Santander also went deep for the Orioles, their fifth straight game with at least three home runs. Baltimore also accomplished the feat in 1996 and 1987.

With one on and one out, Mullins hit a drive to right field off Griffin Jax (1-2) for his fifth homer of the year. Craig Kimbrel (3-0) worked a 1-2-3 top of the ninth.

Pablo López allowed a leadoff homer to Henderson in the first but was stellar after that. He exited after six innings and 87 pitches, having allowed a run and two hits with seven strikeouts.

Baltimore’s Albert Suárez pitched 5„ scoreless innings in his first big league appearance in seven years. The 34-year-old was called up from Triple A before the game because Tyler Wells went on the injured list Tuesday.

“I worked hard for it. I think when you work hard and you have faith in something, it happens,” Suárez said. “I think I enjoyed this moment more than the first time I got called up.”

The righthander allowed three hits and struck out four without a walk.

The Twins scored twice in the seventh to take the lead. Austin Martin’s single scored Manuel Margot from first. One out later, Kyle Farmer’s single scored Martin.

Santander tied it in the bottom of the inning with a solo shot.

Suárez pitched for the Giants from 2016-17. He pitched in Triple A in 2018, then spent a few years in Japan and South Korea. The Orioles signed him to a minor league deal in September.

Arcia, Braves top Astros in 10th

Marcell Ozuna hit his major league-leading eighth homer and Orlando Arcia’s RBI single in the 10th inning lifted the Braves to a 5-4 win and three-game sweep of the Astros in Houston. The Braves scored two in the eighth to tie it at

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4-4. Michael Harris II started the 10th on second and there was one out in the inning when Seth Martinez (1-1) intentionally walked Matt Olson.

Ozuna lined out to send Harris to third. Arcia singled on a grounder to score Harris.

Jake Meyers was on second when Kyle Tucker walked in the 10th. Meyers moved to third on a fly out by Yainer Diaz but Jeremy Peña grounded into a double play to end it.

A.J. Minter (3-1) got the last two outs of the ninth and Raisel Iglesias earned his fifth save.

Ozuna also leads the majors with 23 RBIs and he extended his hitting streak to 16 games, which ties his career best and is the longest active streak in the majors.

Yordan Alvarez and Mauricio Dubón both homered for the Astros, who fell to 6-14 and are last in the AL West.

Alvarez homered in the first to put Houston up, 1-0.

Ozuna opened the second with his 432-foot shot to left to tie the game.

Acuña put the Braves up, 2-1, when he sent the first pitch of the fifth to straightaway center.

The Astros tied it in the fifth on an RBI single by Alex Bregman and took the lead on Kyle Tucker’s RBI double.

Dubón hit his first home run of the year in the sixth to push the lead to 4-2.

Harris singled to start the seventh before a ground-rule double by Austin Riley. Olson reached, and Harris scored on an error by first baseman José Abreu. There was one out when Riley scored on a sac fly by Arcia to tie it at 4-all.

Judge lifts Yankees in ninth

Aaron Judge broke a 4-all tie with a two-run single in the ninth inning, Juan Soto and Giancarlo Stanton hit solo home runs, and the Yankees rallied to beat the Blue Jays, 6-4, in Toronto to avoid their first sweep of the season.

Daulton Varsho hit two home runs for the Blue Jays, but Toronto’s four-game winning streak was snapped.

Blue Jays manager John Schneider was ejected by plate umpire Ryan Wills for arguing in the bottom of the ninth.

Victor González (1-0) got one out for the win and Clay Holmes finished for his seventh save.

Judge was 0 for 12 against Toronto in the series before coming through on a full-count pitch from lefthander Tim Mayza with two outs and the bases loaded.

The Yankees trailed, 4-1, through seven, but Soto homered off Génesis Cabrera in the eighth and Stanton connected off Erik Swanson (0-1) to begin the ninth.

Pinch hitter Jose Trevino greeted Mayza with a tying single over the drawn-in infield. Anthony Volpe fouled out and Soto walked before Judge broke the deadlock with a single down the thirdbase line.

Varsho hit a two-run homer off Marcus Stroman in the second and added a solo blast off Caleb Ferguson in the seventh.

Blue Jays starter Kevin Gausman finished five innings for the first time in four starts after missing most of spring training because of a sore shoulder. He allowed one run and four hits, walked three, and matched a season high by striking out six.