Orioles’ Davis ends record slump with 3 hits in win over Red Sox

Cended his record slump at 0 for 54 and drew applause from rival fans at Fenway Park in Boston, getting three hits and driving in four runs as the Baltimore Orioles beat the Boston Red Sox 9-5 Saturday to end a four-game losing streak.

Davis walked to the plate in the first inning to what mostly appeared to be mock cheers when he was announced. But many of those quickly changed when he lined a bases-loaded, two-run single over the head of second baseman ending the longest hitless streak ever by a position player.

Once he safely reached first, Davis tipped his cap to the Orioles dugout and many of his teammates raised their arms and hollered in support. He smiled and made a motion that he wanted to ball, which he got.

“Significant weight lifted off my shoulders,” he said later.

Davis, a former two-time

major league home run champion, later hit two doubles. He had been 0 for 33 this season.

Adam Eaton and Howie Kendrick homered on consecutive pitches in the eighth inning and the Nationals rallied past the Pittsburgh Pirates.

After Richard Rodriguez (0-1) retired the first two batters in the eighth, Eaton tied it with his first home run of the season. Kendrick then connected for his second.

Newcomer Austin Dean had four hits and five RBIs, both career highs, to help the Marlins break a five-game losing streak.

Dean hit his first major league homer and also drove in two runs with his first career triple to complete a 4-for-4 night. The performance came in the outfielder's second game since being recalled from Triple-A to make his season debut with the Marlins. Lourdes Gurriel Jr. hit a tworun double in the seventh inning to help the Blue Jays overcome reigning AL Cy Young winner Blake Snell's no-hit bid in a win over Tampa Bay, snapping the Rays' fivegame winning streak.

Snell didn't allow a hit until Luke Maile singled with one out in the sixth.

had two goals and an assist to help New York City FC tie Minnesota United, 3-3, in the first game at Allianz Field in St. Paul, Minn.

also scored for NYCFC (0-1-5), which survived an egregious own goal by goalie

in the 32nd minute to tie it after halftime and send a raucous crowd home a little less satisfied. and scored for Minnesota (3-2-1).

The opener at the $250 million facility, built halfway between the downtowns of Minneapolis and St. Paul, was a brisk one with the high temperature at 40 degrees in the afternoon the day after a storm finished dumping as much as a foot of snow around the Twin Cities.

The United States soared into the gold-medal game at the women's world hockey championship in Espoo, Finland by routing Russia 8-0 Saturday behind two goals each by

and

The undefeated Americans will be going for their fifth straight title Sunday against Finland. The host nation jolted Canada 4-2 in the other semifinal.

Goalie of the U.S. made 11 stops for her second shutout of the tournament.

Canada will face Russia for the bronze medal Sunday. Earlier in the tournament.

The U.S. and Canada had met in all 18 previous world championship finals, dating to the first in 1990.