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Twins hit 5 more homers off Orioles(cheap Baltimore Orioles championship rings) in 9-2 win
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Baltimore's pitching staff kept the Minnesota Twins(custom Minnesota Twins championship rings) in the ballpark - for five innings. Then it was back to normal for the Orioles. Minnesota hit five home runs for the second straight day, including a pair by Max Kepler in a 9-2 rout of the Orioles on Saturday. C.J. Cron, Jason Castro and Marwin Gonzalez also homered for the Twins, who have 21 home runs against the Orioles this year while going 5-0. Minnesota's high for homers in a season against Baltimore is 22 in 1962 and 1964. Baltimore has given up 69 homers in 28 games, a pace that projects to 399 for the season. St. Louis is second in home runs allowed with 51.
Cron's two-run homer on a full-count put the Twins up 3-2 in the sixth.
''We just had a really bad pitch with two bases open and two switch-hitters on deck that turned the tide of the game(world series rings for sale),'' Orioles manager Brandon Hyde said. ''It's just stuff these guys are going to have to be able to learn - to navigate through a lineup and understand who's on deck and who can hurt me and who can't.'' Cron battled through an eight-pitch at-bat before connecting on a slider for his fifth home run. ''I think I missed a few pitches I probably should have hit earlier in the count,'' Cron said. ''But, it was good to see what he had kind of, and the longer the at-bat drew out, the better I felt up there. Just a good pitch to hit and thankfully I put a good swing on it.''
Kepler had four RBIs to help back Jose Berrios (4-1), who allowed two runs and seven hits in six innings with eight strikeouts and no walks. Trevor May pitched a perfect seventh, Taylor Rogers struck out the side in a one-hit eighth, and Adelberto Mejia pitched a 1-2-3 ninth. ''I think we have a nice balance of different types of hitters in our lineup that are seemingly complementing each other really well right now,'' Twins(championship rings) manager Rocco Baldelli said. ''There's no guarantees that anything like this, or anything similar to it, is going to last, anyway. But, when you do have runs like this, it's nice and you appreciate them as you see them.''
Paul Fry (0-1) lost in relief of Dan Straily, who lowered his ERA from 8.59 to 6.75 by allowing an unearned run and three hits in four innings. Kepler hit a sacrifice fly in the third, but Baltimore built a 2-1 lead on RBI singles by Rio Ruiz in the fourth and Hanser Alberto in the fifth. Kepler had a two-run drive off Tanner Scott in the seventh. Jimmy Yacabonis gave up three home runs in the eighth.
Gonzalez stopped an 0-for-19 skid with his second home run this season, a solo drive. Jason Castro added a two-run homer in the eighth and Kepler connected two pitches later.
In Friday's series-opening 6-1 win, Nelson Cruz, Eddie Rosario and Cron hit consecutive homers.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Baltimore's pitching staff kept the Minnesota Twins(custom Minnesota Twins championship rings) in the ballpark - for five innings. Then it was back to normal for the Orioles. Minnesota hit five home runs for the second straight day, including a pair by Max Kepler in a 9-2 rout of the Orioles on Saturday. C.J. Cron, Jason Castro and Marwin Gonzalez also homered for the Twins, who have 21 home runs against the Orioles this year while going 5-0. Minnesota's high for homers in a season against Baltimore is 22 in 1962 and 1964. Baltimore has given up 69 homers in 28 games, a pace that projects to 399 for the season. St. Louis is second in home runs allowed with 51.
Cron's two-run homer on a full-count put the Twins up 3-2 in the sixth.
''We just had a really bad pitch with two bases open and two switch-hitters on deck that turned the tide of the game(world series rings for sale),'' Orioles manager Brandon Hyde said. ''It's just stuff these guys are going to have to be able to learn - to navigate through a lineup and understand who's on deck and who can hurt me and who can't.'' Cron battled through an eight-pitch at-bat before connecting on a slider for his fifth home run. ''I think I missed a few pitches I probably should have hit earlier in the count,'' Cron said. ''But, it was good to see what he had kind of, and the longer the at-bat drew out, the better I felt up there. Just a good pitch to hit and thankfully I put a good swing on it.''
Kepler had four RBIs to help back Jose Berrios (4-1), who allowed two runs and seven hits in six innings with eight strikeouts and no walks. Trevor May pitched a perfect seventh, Taylor Rogers struck out the side in a one-hit eighth, and Adelberto Mejia pitched a 1-2-3 ninth. ''I think we have a nice balance of different types of hitters in our lineup that are seemingly complementing each other really well right now,'' Twins(championship rings) manager Rocco Baldelli said. ''There's no guarantees that anything like this, or anything similar to it, is going to last, anyway. But, when you do have runs like this, it's nice and you appreciate them as you see them.''
Paul Fry (0-1) lost in relief of Dan Straily, who lowered his ERA from 8.59 to 6.75 by allowing an unearned run and three hits in four innings. Kepler hit a sacrifice fly in the third, but Baltimore built a 2-1 lead on RBI singles by Rio Ruiz in the fourth and Hanser Alberto in the fifth. Kepler had a two-run drive off Tanner Scott in the seventh. Jimmy Yacabonis gave up three home runs in the eighth.
Gonzalez stopped an 0-for-19 skid with his second home run this season, a solo drive. Jason Castro added a two-run homer in the eighth and Kepler connected two pitches later.
In Friday's series-opening 6-1 win, Nelson Cruz, Eddie Rosario and Cron hit consecutive homers.