O’s snap 13-game road skid with win at Boston

BOSTON — Jonathan Schoop homered and Alex Cobb got his first win of the season as Baltimore beat Boston 7-4 Friday night, ending the Orioles’ 13-game road losing streak.

Manny Machado went 3 for 5 with three RBIs and Adam Jones had two hits and drove in two for the Orioles, who won on the road for the first time since April 8 and avoided breaking the franchise record for road woes. Baltimore also lost 13 straight on the road while opening the 1988 season 0-21 overall.

Mookie Betts doubled twice and hit his 14th homer for Boston, which lost to Baltimore for the first time in the five meetings so far this season.

Cobb (1-5) got his first win as a member of the Orioles, holding Boston to three runs on 10 hits over 61⁄3 innings. Cobb, who signed with Baltimore as a free agent after spending his first 11 seasons with Tampa Bay, had his longest outing of the season and won for the first time since Sept. 22, when the Rays beat the Orioles.

Brad Brach pitched a scoreless ninth for his sixth save, preserving the Orioles’ first road win since beating the Yankees 8-7 in 12 innings in the 10th game of the season.

Drew Pomeranz (1-2) lasted only four innings for Boston, getting pulled after the Orioles scored four in

the fourth to take a 5-1 lead. Pomeranz allowed seven hits and walked three as Baltimore scored five off of him, four of them earned, and struck out a seasonlow two.

Pomeranz escaped the first trailing 1-0 after loading the bases with one out. He survived the second and third, but couldn’t get himself out of a mess in the fourth after Davis led off with a double and Danny Valencia followed with a single. Pomeranz got the next two batters, but walked Trey Mancini to load the bases for Jones, who delivered a two-run single to left. Machado followed with a line drive single to score two more and put Baltimore up 5-1.

Betts homer to left tied it at 1-1 in the third. He also doubled in the fifth as the Red Sox added two more runs to pull within 5-3

Winslow Townson / Associated Press Mookie Betts watches his RBI double against Baltimore during the fifth inning on Friday at Fenway Park.