Nats continue road success, rout Rockies
DENVER — Erick Fedde pitched seven sharp innings, Josh Bell and Juan Soto homered and the Washington Nationals continued their high-scoring ways on the road by beating the Colorado Rockies 10-2 on Tuesday night.
Keibert Ruiz had three hits and three RBIs and Yadiel Hernández added three hits and two RBIs for the Nationals, who entered the game averaging a major-league high 6.4 runs on the road.
“For me, you can never score enough runs in this ballpark,” Nationals manager Dave Martinez said. “The big thing, like we talked about, you score early, but you’ve got to keep working good at-bats. They did that tonight. It was awesome to see Juan hit the ball like he did today and Bell going the other way.”
The Nationals have won three of four to start their nine-game road trip after going into it off an eightgame losing streak.
Fedde (2-2) limited the Rockies to six hits and a run on Randal Grichuk’s RBI forceout in the third inning. He struck out three and walked two to reverse his fortunes at Coors Field, where he had gone 0-2 with a 9.00 ERA in four previous appearances there.
C.J. Cron connected for his ninth homer of the season in the eighth inning off reliever Erasmo Ramírez for Colorado.
Germán Márquez (0-2) allowed seven runs on 10 hits in five innings.
Bell finished with three hits, including a three-run homer off Márquez in the third.
Ryan Jeffers hit a tiebreaking, three-run homer in the sixth inning and surging Minnesota defeated host Baltimore for its fourth straight victory.
The Twins have won 12 of 13 to move six games over .500 (15-9) and into first place in the AL Central, which does not have another team with a winning record. Minnesota has outscored the opposition 63-25 during its 13-game run, including 25-7 during its current win streak.
This game was tied at 2 before the Twins took control in the sixth. Gary Sanchez hit a one-out double off Joey Krehbiel (1-3), Trevor Larnich walked and Jeffers followed with a drive over the center-field wall.
Minnesota pulled away with a two-run ninth that featured an RBI double by Byron Buxton.
Trey Mancini had two hits and an RBI for the last-place Orioles, who have dropped seven of nine. Bruce Zimmermann worked five innings for Baltimore, allowing two runs and four hits.
Baltimore third baseman Tyler Nevin left in the sixth inning with right groin soreness.
Twins 7, Orioles 2: