{"id":106396,"date":"2025-06-15T20:24:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T20:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/106396\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T20:24:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T20:24:13","slug":"gary-sanchez-hits-a-grand-slam-and-the-orioles-complete-sweep-of-angels-with-11-2-rout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/106396\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary S\u00e1nchez hits a grand slam and the Orioles complete sweep of Angels with 11-2 rout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BALTIMORE (AP) \u2014 Gary S\u00e1nchez hit a seventh-inning grand slam, Ram\u00f3n Ur\u00edas and Jordan Westburg also homered, and the Baltimore Orioles completed a three-game sweep with a 11-2 victory Sunday over the Los Angeles Angels.<\/p>\n<p>Cade Povich earned his first victory since April 24 as Baltimore secured its third sweep of the season, all in its last five series. The Orioles (30-40) are within 10 games of .500 for the first time since they were 15-25.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Nolan Schanuel homered for Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Baltimore took a 3-2 lead against left-hander Yusei Kikuchi (2-6) on Ram\u00f3n Laureano\u2019s RBI single in the fourth, and then chased Kikuchi in the sixth. S\u00e1nchez hit a two-out single and then came around when Kikuchi flung Cedric Mullins\u2019 bunt single down the right-field line. Coby Mayo followed with an RBI double.<\/p>\n<p>S\u00e1nchez broke the game open with his sixth career grand slam and first since Aug. 15, 2023. The catcher ripped Connor Brogdon\u2019s two-out fastball to left-center for Baltimore\u2019s third grand slam of the season and first since May 14.<\/p>\n<p>Povich (2-5) came out of the bullpen for the first time in 29 career outings. He threw 3 2\/3 shutout innings after replacing opener Scott Blewett.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Schanuel hit a solo homer in the first for Los Angeles, and Ur\u00edas responded with a two-run shot later in the inning. Westburg hit a two-run homer in the eighth.<\/p>\n<p>Kikuchi allowed a season-high five runs \u2014 three earned \u2014 and struck out 10 in 5 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Key moment<\/p>\n<p>Orioles reliever Seranthony Dom\u00ednguez entered with the bases loaded and one out in the seventh and struck out Jo Adell and pinch hitter LaMonte Wade Jr. to preserve a 5-2 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Key stat<\/p>\n<p>Baltimore improved to 20-6 against the Angels since 2022, including 5-1 this season.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles RHP Jos\u00e9 Soriano (4-5, 3.86 ERA) starts the opener of a four-game series Monday at the New York Yankees. Baltimore has not announced its pitching plans for a four-game series at Tampa Bay starting Monday.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BALTIMORE (AP) \u2014 Gary S\u00e1nchez hit a seventh-inning grand slam, Ram\u00f3n Ur\u00edas and Jordan Westburg also homered, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2390],"tags":[291,47,5,600,77,583,4611,1127,6998,2179,581,1165,446,3223,6464,774,56,3224,3222,4,62,4953,1495,914,467,2539,1362,809],"class_list":{"0":"post-106396","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-angels","8":"tag-angels","9":"tag-baltimore-orioles","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-cade-povich","12":"tag-cedric-mullins","13":"tag-coby-mayo","14":"tag-connor-brogdon","15":"tag-gary-sanchez","16":"tag-grand-slam","17":"tag-jo-adell","18":"tag-jordan-westburg","19":"tag-la","20":"tag-la-angels","21":"tag-laangels","22":"tag-lamonte-wade-jr","23":"tag-los-angeles","24":"tag-los-angeles-angels","25":"tag-losangeles","26":"tag-losangelesangels","27":"tag-mlb","28":"tag-new-york-yankees","29":"tag-nolan-schanuel","30":"tag-ramon-laureano","31":"tag-ramon-urias","32":"tag-scott-blewett","33":"tag-seranthony-dominguez","34":"tag-the-orioles","35":"tag-yusei-kikuchi"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114689256222476156","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}