The Baltimore Orioles won their third consecutive game Saturday with an 8-5 win over the Cincinnati Reds (40-48). Having established a 3-0 lead in the first inning, the Orioles added 5 runs in the fourth to wrap up their scoring for the game. The Baltimore lead was 8-4 after the top of the fourth.
Samuel Basallo (1 for 4, BB) hit a three-run homerun, his second homerun in as many days, in the first inning. The homerun was his 14th of the season and travelled 406 ft. to right center field, allowing Gunnar Henderson and Pete Alonso to score in front of him.
Alonso, who went 3 for 3 with a run scored, 1 RBI and 2 walks, found himself in the middle of the Orioles’ offense. He hit a single in the third, a RBI-single in the fourth and a double in the ninth inning.
The five-run fourth inning saw Blaze Alexander (1 for 4) knock in a pair of runs with a bases loaded single. Alexander stole second base and scored on Adley Rutschman‘s two-RBI double; Jackson Holliday also scored on the play. Alonso’s RBI-single knocked in Rutschman for the fifth run of the inning.
Announced as the Orioles’ lone representative in the 2026 All-Star Game in Philadelphia, Rutschman marked the occasion by going 2 for 5 with a pair of doubles, a run scored and 2 RBI; he doubled to lead off the third inning.
Baltimore managed to work three walks, one being an intentional walk of Basallo in the ninth, and record two hits following the fourth inning outburst. The team left the bases loaded in the ninth and had just two other base runners over the final five innings of the game.
Brandon Young (7-2) was the eventual winner of his 14th start of the year. He allowed 4 runs on 8 hits with 3 walks and 5 strike outs across 5.0 innings of work in doing so. Cincinnati used a double and a RBI-single to score a run in the first inning and then touched him for three runs in the second inning with a double and a triple sandwiched between a pair of singles.
Grant Wolfram gave up a run in the sixth inning before Yennier Cano, Andrew Kittredge and Tyler Wells each pitching an inning to close out the game. Wells earned his second save for his effort in the ninth inning.
Now that the O’s have once again won three games in a row, the attention turns to Sunday’s game. Will a fourth game in a row end up in the win column or will another three-game winning streak end?
2026 Record: 42-48
Next Game: Sun. 7/5 @ 1:05 pm @ Cincinnati Reds (streaming on Peacock)
