Pete Alonso homers for Orioles as Baltimore tops Red Sox 4-2

BOSTON (AP) — Pete Alonso hit a two-run homer and Shane Baz pitched seven strong innings because the Baltimore Orioles beat the Boston Purple Sox 4-2 on Tuesday night time.

Coby Mayo additionally homered for Baltimore, which gained its third straight and ended a three-game street skid.

Baz (3-5) pitched seven innings for a second straight begin, permitting 4 hits and hanging out six as he picked up consecutive wins for the primary time this season. After giving up a leadoff triple to Jarren Duran within the first, Baz held Boston with out one other hit till the fifth and had a stretch of retiring 10 straight batters.

Rico Garcia struck out two within the ninth for his fourth save.

Alonso’s third-inning homer was his twelfth of the season. He belted a 2-2 pitch from Connelly Early (5-3) properly over the Inexperienced Monster in left discipline to place Baltimore up 3-1 and provides the slugging first baseman 38 RBIs.

Gunnar Henderson’s double to left within the first inning prolonged his streak of reaching base safely at Fenway Park to 23 video games — as many instances as he has appeared on the ballpark.

Mayo tied it at 1-all within the second along with his seventh homer of the season, a drive to the highest of the Monster that was initially known as a double earlier than getting overturned on a video evaluation.

Wilyer Abreu and Marcelo Mayer drove in Boston’s runs on sacrifice flies because the Purple Sox fell to 9-20 at house.

Early went 5 1/3 innings, permitting 4 runs on six hits.

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Baltimore RHP Chris Bassitt (4-3, 5.06 ERA) faces Boston LHP Payton Tolle (2-2, 2.61) because the sequence continues on Wednesday.