The Riverside Press-Enterprise
Henderson, Orioles stay hot in home win over Blue Jays
Rookie Gunnar Henderson extended his torridhitting spree with his first career grand slam, one of four home runs launched by the Baltimore Orioles in an 11-6 victory over the visiting Toronto Blue Jays on Tuesday night.
It was the fifth straight win for the surprising Orioles, who climbed 18 games over .500 (42-24) for the first time since 2016, when they last reached the playoffs. Tampa Bay, which leads second-place Baltimore in the AL East, is the only team in the majors with a better record.
Henderson hit .526 last week with three homers and six RBIS in five games. After a day off Monday, the 21-year-old came up with a suitable encore: He went 3 for 5, including a basesloaded drive off Chris Bassitt that capped a six-run third inning.
Henderson has homered in three straight games and has 11 hits in his last four starts.
The Orioles banged out a season-high 17 hits, including two-run homers by Adam Frazier and Ryan O’hearn, along with a solo shot by Aaron Hicks. Three of those drives came off Bassitt (7-5), who allowed eight runs and 11 hits in three innings.
TWINS 7, BREWERS 5 >> Carlos Correa hit a two-run homer to cap a four-run bottom of the ninth inning off closer Devin Williams (3-1), giving Minnesota a win over Milwaukee.
Williams, who took his first blown save in 11 attempts, didn’t record an out and had his sparkling 0.42 ERA spike to 2.08.
Michael A. Taylor greeted him with a home run, and Eduoard Julien walked.
Then pinch-runner Willi Castro stole second and raced home on Donovan Solano’s single before Correa delivered the winner.
Williams gave up just two homers in 60 2/3 innings last season.
The Brewers saw their losing streak stretch to five games despite a homer and season-high four RBIS by Christian Yelich.
ASTROS 6, NATIONALS 1 >> Mauricio Dubón, Kyle Tucker, Martín Maldonado and Chas Mccormick each hit solo homers to back up a solid start by rookie Hunter Brown and lead host Houston past Washington.
Brown (6-3) scattered four hits across seven scoreless innings.
Dubón put the Astros up 1-0 when he homered off Patrick Corbin (4-7) with no outs in the fifth. There was one out in the inning
when Tucker then hit his ninth home run this season to right field to make it 2-0.
It was Washington’s first visit to Houston since the Nationals won their only championship by beating the Astros 6-2 in Game 7 of the 2019 World Series. Corbin was also on the mound in that game, pitching three scoreless innings of relief to get the win.
Tuesday, he walked five while allowing four hits and two runs in five innings. ATHLETICS 2, RAYS 1 >> Pinchhitter Carlos Pérez broke a tie with an RBI groundout in the eighth inning and host Oakland edged Tampa Bay Rays in front of a spirited crowd at the Coliseum.
The A’s drew a seasonhigh attendance of 27,759 as Oakland fans held a “reverse boycott” to protest the team’s planned move to Las Vegas.
It was a playoff-like atmosphere for the A’s season-high seventh straight victory, with the crowd repeatedly chanting “Sell the team!” and “Stay in Oakland!” Fans also shouted their anger at team owner John Fisher throughout the night.
YANKEES 7, METS 6 >> Clay Holmes pitched out of a bases-loaded jam in the eighth inning and the visiting Yankees stormed back from four runs down against Max Scherzer to beat the skidding Mets in a wild Subway Series opener.
Giancarlo Stanton and DJ Lemahieu homered off Scherzer, and pinch-hitter Josh Donaldson drove in the tiebreaking run with a sacrifice fly in the sixth.
Brandon Nimmo hit his eighth career leadoff homer and Jeff Mcneil had a two-run single for the Mets (31-36), who have lost nine of 10. They opened a 5-1 lead in the third only to see Scherzer give up five runs and six hits in the fourth.
Lemahieu’s two-run homer trimmed it to 5-3, rookie Anthony Volpe had an RBI double and Jake Bauers’ two-run bloop single over a drawn-in infield chased Scherzer and gave the Yankees a 6-5 lead.
GIANTS 11, CARDINALS 3 Mike Yastrzemski and Patrick Bailey homered and Michael Conforto added four hits and three RBIS as San Francisco beat St. Louis for its fifth straight road win.
Giants outfielder Mitch Haniger suffered a fractured right forearm after being hit by a pitch from Jack Flaherty in the third.
St. Louis lost for the ninth time in 11 games and fell to 27-41 overall, the team’s worst start since opening the 1978 season 24-44.