BOSTON -- A giant sport typically incorporates a standout participant, a clutch hitter or a dominant pitcher who takes the highlight in a win. It is perhaps a special man from night time to nighttime, but it surely’s not typical that the standout participant is constantly a gaggle of gamers.

Unless you’re Baltimore.

After a 92-minute rain delay, the Orioles held on for a 13-12 victory over the Red Sox for his or her seventh straight win and seventh consecutive sport with 10 or extra hits, their longest streak since Sept. 19-24, 2011. Baltimore (90-51) reached 90 wins in its fewest video games in franchise historical past since 1979 (136 video games).

The second of three video games on this sequence noticed 25 runs scored and 37 hits between the 2 groups, making the Orioles the primary crew to win a sport having allowed 23-plus hits because the Mariners did so on Sept. 3, 1981, a 20-inning contest that was additionally performed at Fenway.

"I feel like it's always like this here,” manager Brandon Hyde said. “It's such a tough team to pitch to. I said it coming in, it's a really good offense, and we have to pitch well. Tonight wasn't our best night on the mound or defensively. Give our guys a ton of credit. That was a straight grind-it-out, gut-check win."

Baltimore fell into an early gap after starter Jack Flaherty allowed his first two of 5 runs (4 earned) on a Justin Turner homer within the first. Aaron Hicks remedied that within the third, giving the O’s their first lead on a three-run dwelling run, his second extra-base hit of the night time off veteran lefty Chris Sale. Hicks and teammate Jordan Westburg every completed a triple shy of the cycle.

“These guys continue to work, and they continue to find different ways to win, and that’s what’s most impressive,” Flaherty mentioned. “They just keep making pitches, and the guys in the 'pen just [keep] trying to find ways to get outs.”

As he continues to construct confidence, Shintaro Fujinami discovered a method to document 5 large outs. Coming in with two males on and one out within the fifth, Fujinami promptly allowed a double steal to place the tying run at third. He recovered by inducing a Connor Wong flyout earlier than displaying off his athleticism to finish a powerful inning-ending play that McCann dubbed a “momentum shifter.”

McCann homered within the fourth and sixth innings for his second profession multi-homer sport. Three years in the past to the day, McCann homered twice in a contest vs. the Pirates as a member of the White Sox.

The Red Sox threatened to tie the sport after three consecutive singles off Danny Coulombe within the seventh, and once more loaded the bases towards Yennier Cano within the ninth. But the Orioles twice squashed Boston’s comeback try on a flyout.

“It was like a heavyweight boxing match,” McCann mentioned. “Every time we’d throw up some runs, they found a way. We had the advantage of the homers, and they found a way to shoot balls the other way, to find broken-bat hits, to find holes, infield singles, you name it. They did a good job of battling, and like I said, every time we threw a punch, they threw a punch. Thankfully, we were able to come out on top.”

With a four-game sequence towards the division's second-place Rays on the horizon, Baltimore’s capacity to constantly discover methods to win as a gaggle has by no means been extra pivotal. Not to say extra enjoyable.

“It’s a great group,” McCann mentioned. “I’ve said it since Spring Training, obviously, winning makes it fun, but just quality people. And seeing the success that the young guys are having, the success that veteran guys are having, the success that 1 [through] 9 is having with someone different every night, makes it a lot of fun.”

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