Orioles rally to beat Twins 2-1, finish 4-game skid and avert first sweep

BALTIMORE — Minnesota Twins nearer Jhoan Duran compelled within the tiebreaking run when he hit rookie Jordan Westburg with a pitch n the eighth inning, enabling the Baltimore Orioles to cease a four-game skid with a 2-1 victory Sunday.

The Orioles had gone 20 straight innings with out a run and have been poised to be swept for the primary time this season earlier than getting back from a 1-0 deficit within the eighth.

Duran struck out Gunnar Henderson earlier than successive singles by Adley Rutschman, Anthony Santander and Aaron Hicks tied the rating. After an intentional stroll loaded the bases, Duran (2-3) plunked Westburg with a fastball to present the Orioles their first lead within the three-game sequence.

Cionel Pérez (2-1) labored an ideal eighth inning and Félix Bautista struck out the aspect within the ninth for his twenty second save in 27 possibilities.

Baltimore scored three runs with 12 hits within the sequence towards the AL Central-leading Twins.

Twins starter Sonny Gray allowed two hits over six shutout innings, putting out seven and strolling three on a steamy day at Camden Yards. The right-hander confronted just one severe jam, within the fifth inning when the Orioles loaded the bases with two outs earlier than Gray retired Rutschman on a flyout.

PHOTOS: Orioles rally to beat Twins 2-1, finish 4-game skid and avert first sweep

Baltimore’s Cole Irvin gave up one run and 6 hits in 5 innings. He and Gray put up zeroes till the fifth, when Byron Buxton singled, took second in a wild pitch and scored on Willi Castro’s two-out double.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Twins: Placed INF Royce Lewis on the 10-day IL with a left indirect pressure and recalled INF José Miranda from Triple-A St. Paul. Lewis was injured Saturday whereas working out a grounder within the third inning. “He’ll be out for a little while, for sure,” supervisor Rocco Baldelli stated.

Orioles: OF Austin Hays left within the fourth inning with a hip contusion. He was changed by Hicks, who drove within the tying run.

UP NEXT

Twins: RH Joe Ryan (8-5, 3.44 ERA) begins Monday night time within the opener of a three-game sequence towards the visiting Kansas City Royals.