{"id":264554,"date":"2026-04-12T22:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T22:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/264554\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T22:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T22:04:10","slug":"basallos-homer-alonsos-2-rbis-help-orioles-defeat-giants-6-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/264554\/","title":{"rendered":"Basallo&#8217;s homer, Alonso&#8217;s 2 RBIs help Orioles defeat Giants 6-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BALTIMORE (AP) \u2014 Samuel Basallo hit a two-run homer, Pete Alonso also drove in two runs and the Baltimore Orioles defeated the San Francisco Giants 6-2 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Baltimore has won five of six games and moved above .500 for the first time since its opening day victory.<\/p>\n<p>Baltimore starter Cade Povich (1-0) retired the first 12 batters and yielded one run in 6 2\/3 innings on his 26th birthday. The left-hander allowed five hits and no walks and struck out five.<\/p>\n<p>Alonso chased Houser (0-2) with a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Orioles\/status\/2043404304569000126?s=20\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\">two-run double<\/a> down the left-field line in the fifth. Houser gave up four runs and struck out three in 4 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco second baseman Luis Arraez sat out after leaving Saturday night\u2019s game with a bruised right wrist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think with a day off tomorrow, it makes sense if we can get through today\u2019s game without using him, you get almost three days of recovery so he can get to feeling great instead of just good enough to play,\u201d Giants manager Tony Vitello said.<\/p>\n<p>The Giants\u2019 road trip continues Tuesday when LHP Robbie Ray (2-1, 2.08 ERA) starts the opener of a three-game series at Cincinnati.<\/p>\n<p>Baltimore has not announced its pitching plans for Monday\u2019s series opener against visiting Arizona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BALTIMORE (AP) \u2014 Samuel Basallo hit a two-run homer, Pete Alonso also drove in two runs and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[103071,69957,115581,36473,115152,73483,2390,5341,50601,5337,5339,5340,115156,77298,115937,101,103,102,104,106,105,10892],"class_list":{"0":"post-264554","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-adrian-houser","9":"tag-casey-schmitt","10":"tag-coby-mayo","11":"tag-colton-cowser","12":"tag-giants-orioles-score","13":"tag-luis-arraez","14":"tag-package-100024-ap-online","15":"tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","16":"tag-pete-alonso","17":"tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","18":"tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","19":"tag-product-40776-ap-california-sports-only","20":"tag-product-40779-ap-delaware-maryland-sports-only","21":"tag-robbie-ray","22":"tag-samuel-basallo","23":"tag-san-francisco","24":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","25":"tag-san-francisco-news","26":"tag-sf","27":"tag-sf-headlines","28":"tag-sf-news","29":"tag-tony-vitello"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}