{"id":694678,"date":"2026-05-26T01:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T01:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/694678\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T01:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T01:40:10","slug":"cowser-hits-2nd-game-winning-hr-in-2-days-giving-the-orioles-a-9-7-win-over-the-rays-in-13-innings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/694678\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowser hits 2nd game-winning HR in 2 days, giving the Orioles a 9-7 win over the Rays in 13 innings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colton Cowser hit a two-run game-winning homer in the 13th inning \u2014 his second walk-off shot in as many days \u2014 to give the Baltimore Orioles a 9-7 win over the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>BALTIMORE(AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/i\/status\/2059030454875865326\" rel=\"nofollow\">Colton Cowser hit a two-run game-winning homer<\/a> in the 13th inning \u2014 his second walk-off shot in as many days \u2014 to give the Baltimore Orioles a 9-7 win over the AL East-leading Tampa Bay Rays on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Cowser&#8217;s 425-foot blast off Jesse Scholtens (5-3) was just his third homer of the season and punctuated a wild victory in which the Orioles rallied three times in extra innings. Cowser becomes Baltimore\u2019s first player to hit walk-off homers on consecutive days since Fred Lynn on May 10-11, 1985, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.<\/p>\n<p>                                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ktvb.com\/assets\/shared-images\/icons\/arrow-circle-down.svg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                                This story continues below.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Pete Alonso and Jeremiah Jackson each singled in a run to tie it at 4-all in the 11th. Cowser scored the game-tying run to make it 5-all in the 12th on Gunnar Henderson&#8217;s grounder to first, a sequence originally called an out by plate umpire Ryan Additon before a replay challenge <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/i\/status\/2059024734860575089\" rel=\"nofollow\">showed the sliding Cowser snuck an arm under Nick Fortes\u2019 tag<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Then, Leody Taveras doubled and Jackson Holliday hit a sacrifice fly to tie it a 7 in the 13th, setting up Cowser&#8217;s drive that landed in the seats in right-center, mirroring his game-winning homer in <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/tigers-orioles-score-1da6e028d149745d584dee9e793fea5a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sunday&#8217;s 5-3 victory over Detroit<\/a> in the first game of a doubleheader. <\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Aranda hit his ninth home run in the sixth and added a sacrifice fly in the 12th for the Rays, who lost consecutive games for the first time since dropping three straight April 19-21 in their second 13-inning game \u2014 and first such loss \u2014this season.<\/p>\n<p>Victor Mesa Jr. hit his second career home run, a two-run shot in the 12th inning of his Tampa Bay debut. And, Cedric Mullins and Richie Palacios each singled in the top of the 13th off Dietrich Enns (3-0). <\/p>\n<p>Mullins received an approximately 10-second standing ovation while in the on-deck circle in the second inning. It was his first game in Baltimore as visitor after playing with the Orioles from 2018-25.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nUp next                    <\/p>\n<p>Orioles right-hander Shane Baz (1-5, 4.87 ERA) face Rays RHP Griffin Jax (1-2, 3.54) on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colton Cowser hit a two-run game-winning homer in the 13th inning \u2014 his second walk-off shot in as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-694678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}