A’s get six homers to blast Orioles

OAKLAND — The ball was carrying to center and right field Tuesday night at the Coliseum.

Was it ever.

The Oakland Athletics got home runs from six different players and Brett Anderson pitched seven innings with one earned run in a 16-2 win over the Baltimore Orioles before a crowd of 14,310.

The game was blown open in a 10-run sixth inning that included three-run home runs from Khris Davis (his 16th) and Stephen Piscotty (his ninth). Robbie Grossman also hit a two-run shot, his fifth in the sixth.

Ramon Laureano had four hits, including a three-run home run in the fourth, and other home runs came from Beau Taylor in the third, his first in the major leagues, and Chad Pinder in the seventh, a pinch-hit two-run home run that went out in left field. The others all left the park in center or right.

The Athletics go for a sweep of the series Wednesday with a 38-36 record, while the Orioles looked every bit as overmatched as their major league worst 21-52 record suggests.

Anderson (7-4) had one walk and two strikeouts, with the lone earned run coming on a solo home run to center by Jonathan Villar, his eighth, in the fifth inning.

Laureano’s three-run home run in the fourth inning gave the Athletics a 4-0 lead. It came after Matt Olson doubled to left center and Ynoa hit Khris Davis with a pitch. The A’s drew first blood agianst Ynoa when catcher Taylor hit his first career home run leading off the second. Like Laureano’s blast, it went over the fence in center field.

Baltimore’s Villar got in on the center field action with a solo homer leading off the fifth, and was followed by a single by Keon Broxton. Broxton

got to second on a passed ball by Taylor and Rio Ruiz hit a one-hop smash to Marcus Semien at shortstop.

Semien went to third in hopes of getting Broxton but threw wildly to third, with the Orioles scoring their second run and cutting the Athletics’ lead in half.

The Athletics pushed the lead to 6-2 against Ynoa in the sixth when Laureano singled to left for his third hit of the game and Grossman hit one deep into the seats in right field for a two-run home run.

They weren’t done. Not even close.

After Piscotty grounded out for the first out, Jurickson Profar singled. Taylor forced Profar at second for the second out, and Semien kept his hitting streak alive at 15 games with a triple into the right field corner to drive in a run. Richie Martin booted Matt Chapman’s ground ball, with Semien scoring and it was 8-2.

lson’s single spelled the end for reliever Paul Fry, and Dan Straily was greeted by Davis, whose three-run blast to right center put the Athletics up 112. Laureano singled for his fourth hit, Grossman walked and Piscotty launched yet a third three-run home run for the Athletics to make it 14-2, capping a 10-run inning.

Aaron Brooks pitched the eighth and ninth innings for the Athletics.