BALTIMORE — Adley Rutschman and Ryan Mountcastle homered, Félix Bautista labored by one other shaky ninth inning and the Baltimore Orioles prolonged their streak to 76 collection with out being swept, edging the Houston Astros 5-4 on Thursday.

It was 5-3 when Bautista, who allowed a grand slam to Kyle Tucker on Tuesday night time to lose that recreation, got here on to pitch the ninth. Jose Altuve’s one-out double and Alex Bregman’s stroll allowed the go-ahead run to return up, however catcher James McCann caught Yordan Alvarez’s foul pop, holding onto the ball as he misplaced his stability and fell.

Tucker then drew a stroll to load the bases, and Yainer Diaz adopted with a line drive to the left aspect. Third baseman Ramón Urías made a dive for it and couldn’t catch it, however he did stop it from going all through and just one run got here house.

Bautista then retired Jon Singleton on a popup for his thirty first save in 37 possibilities.

After dropping the primary two video games of this collection, the Orioles set the tone early within the finale. Urías made a diving cease on Altuve’s grounder main off the sport, and Rutschman put Baltimore forward with a drive to left main off the underside of the primary.

Left fielder Ryan O’Hearn and second baseman Adam Frazier made terrific defensive performs for the Orioles within the fifth, and Mountcastle’s two-run shot within the seventh made it 5-2.

Now AL East-leading Baltimore heads out on a nine-game western journey with stops at Seattle, San Diego and Oakland.

Dean Kremer (11-4) allowed two runs and 6 hits in seven innings. Hunter Brown (8-8) allowed 5 runs and eight hits in six innings.

Diaz homered within the second for Houston, and Altuve went deep within the seventh. Altuve additionally singled and doubled twice.

Mauricio Dubón blooped an RBI single within the eighth for Houston, however Yannier Cano was capable of work out of that inning.

The Orioles have gone 76 straight collection of no less than two selections with out being swept. That’s the fifth-longest streak in main league historical past - based on data from the Elias Sports Bureau distributed by the Orioles - and the longest for the reason that St. Louis Cardinals set the report of 124 from 1942-44.

Baltimore entered with a two-game lead over Tampa Bay atop the AL East. The Rays performed later Thursday.

Houston fell to 2 1/2 video games behind first-place Texas within the AL West.

Urías tripled to steer off the Baltimore third and scored on McCann’s single. Rutschman made it 3-1 with a run-scoring single within the sixth after McCann doubled.

Houston was unfortunate to not rating within the fifth. O’Hearn made a pleasant catch earlier than slamming into the wall in left on a drive by Jeremy Peña. Then, with males on first and third and two out, Frazier made a diving cease on the hardest-hit ball of the day - a pointy grounder by Alvarez with an exit velocity of 115.2 mph, based on Statcast.

The recreation began 13 minutes late due to rain.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Orioles: Baltimore’s bullpen took a success earlier than the sport when LHP Danny Coulombe (biceps tendonitis) went on the injured checklist, retroactive to Wednesday. The Orioles recalled RHP Joey Krehbiel from Triple-A Norfolk.

UP NEXT

Kyle Gibson (11-6) begins for Baltimore on Friday night time in opposition to Seattle’s Luis Castillo (7-7).

Houston returns house to face the Los Angeles Angels, with Justin Verlander (6-6) taking the mound for the Astros in opposition to Reid Detmers (2-8).

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