BOSTON — Tyler O’Neill hit a three-run homer to left subject with one out within the tenth inning to provide the Boston Crimson Sox a 5-3 victory over the Baltimore Orioles on Wednesday evening.
O’Neill linked off Keegan Akin (3-1) after Rafael Devers struck out and Romy Gonzalez joined computerized runner Jarren Duran on base when he reached on second baseman Jackson Holliday’s fielding error.
“That was superior,” O’Neill stated. “Clearly, late within the sport, further innings, you wish to come up clutch for the staff. I’m simply making an attempt to get the run in from third, in the beginning. I used to be capable of put a great swing on that one, for certain.”
O’Neill has 30 homers this season. It was his second walk-off RBI this season and fifth general.
“I wasn’t making an attempt to get the groundball double play,” Akin stated. “Simply get an out, actually. Like an infield popup, get a groundball. Clearly, a punchout would have been nice. However yeah, clearly not that end result.”
Baltimore fell 1 1/2 video games behind the first-place New York Yankees within the AL East. Boston is 4 video games behind Minnesota for the league’s final wild card.
Greg Weissert (4-2) bought the victory after giving up Emmanuel Rivera’s RBI single within the backside of the tenth.
“It’s enormous,” Crimson Sox supervisor Alex Cora stated. “We’ve been pitching, which is superior, and hopefully at one level we begin hitting once more. Simply grind out the sport and we took benefit of 1 mistake and (O’Neill) put a great swing on it. We clearly wanted this one, and hopefully it’s the start of one thing massive.”
Enjoying the Crimson Sox for the ultimate time within the common season, the Orioles tied it at 2 with two outs within the eighth on Anthony Santander’s forty first homer, a shot to proper off Justin Slaten.
Baltimore opened the scoring on Rivera’s leadoff homer within the third in opposition to Nick Pivetta. Boston tied it within the backside of the inning in opposition to Dean Kremer, with Wilyer Abreu’s infield single and third baseman Rivera’s error permitting Duran to attain.
“I believed we have been actually unfortunate offensively the final third of the sport,” Orioles supervisor Brandon Hyde stated. “I believed we hit numerous balls onerous. Credit score to them, they made some good performs defensively, too. However they only bought the large hit tonight.”
Boston took a 2-1 lead within the fourth on Cedanne Rafaela’s two-out single.
Pivetta went six innings, permitting a run on 4 hits and a stroll with 9 strikeouts.
Kremer threw seven innings. He gave up two runs — one earned — on 5 hits and two walks with seven strikeouts.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Orioles: LHP Danny Coulombe, who had surgical procedure June 18 to take away bone chips from his left elbow, made his first rehab look Wednesday, going one scoreless inning with a strikeout for Triple-A Norfolk.
Crimson Sox: LHP Brennan Bernardino was positioned on the 15-day injured checklist due to irritation in his pitching elbow. LHP Cam Booser was reinstated from the IL.
UP NEXT
The Crimson Sox open a four-game sequence on the New York Yankees on Thursday evening. Boston RHP Cooper Criswell (6-4, 4.11 ERA) is scheduled to start out in opposition to LHP Nestor Cortes (9-10, 3.97). The Orioles will start a three-game sequence in Detroit on Friday evening.