{"id":770484,"date":"2026-07-18T16:02:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T16:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/770484\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T16:02:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T16:02:17","slug":"orioles-win-3-2-over-astros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/770484\/","title":{"rendered":"Orioles win 3-2 over Astros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Taylor Ward hit a go-ahead, two-run homer in the eighth inning, and the Baltimore Orioles beat the Houston Astros 3-2 on Friday night to extend their season-best win streak to five games.<\/p>\n<p>Adley Rutschman had a ground-rule double to begin the inning against Bryan King (2-3) before <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Orioles\/status\/2078310849689591916?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ward hit<\/a> the next pitch out to left for his seventh homer.<\/p>\n<p>Cam Sanders (1-0), acquired from Pittsburgh for cash on Monday, came in with the bases loaded and one out in the seventh. The right-hander struck out Isaac Paredes looking and got Christian Walker to pop out foul behind home plate to pick up his first major league win.<\/p>\n<p>Tyler Wells allowed Jeremy Pe\u00f1a&#8217;s infield hit in the ninth before retiring Yordan Alvarez on a shallow fly to center field for the second out. After Paredes walked, Wells struck out Walker for his third save.<\/p>\n<p>Houston starter Peter Lambert allowed three hits, struck out a career-high 10 over six innings and left with a 2-1 lead. He issued three straight two-out walks in the third, including a free pass to Pete Alonso that made it 1-1.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarez had an RBI double in the first for Houston and finished 2 for 3 with two walks. He leads the AL with a .321 batting average, 71 RBIs and 31 home runs as he pursues the Triple Crown.<\/p>\n<p>Paredes\u2019 sacrifice fly in the third made it 2-1. Orioles starter Dean Kremer allowed two runs in four innings.<\/p>\n<p>Astros center fielder Lucas Spence made his big league debut and singled in the seventh.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Orioles LHP Trevor Rogers (6-7, 4.48 ERA) starts Saturday opposite Astros RHP Spencer Arrighetti (7-5, 4.50).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Taylor Ward hit a go-ahead, two-run homer in the eighth inning, and the Baltimore Orioles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[58333,41445,2724,7095,363,99,1022],"class_list":["post-770484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-app-professional-sports","tag-app-sports","tag-associated-press","tag-houston","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}