{"id":706330,"date":"2026-05-23T05:00:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T05:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/706330\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T05:00:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T05:00:35","slug":"alonso-and-holliday-homer-orioles-hand-tigers-seventh-straight-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/706330\/","title":{"rendered":"Alonso and Holliday homer, Orioles hand Tigers seventh straight loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BALTIMORE (AP) \u2014 Pete Alonso homered and drove in four runs, Jackson Holliday added a go-ahead two-run shot and the Baltimore Orioles handed the Detroit Tigers their seventh straight loss with a 7-4 victory on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLB\/status\/2057977540837359647?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Alonso homered<\/a> for a second straight game, a three-run shot off Jack Flaherty (0-6) in the third to put the Orioles up 3-2. The slugger added a sacrifice fly in the seventh following his 10th home run.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Orioles\/status\/2057984030348345405?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Holliday hit<\/a> a two-run homer in a three-run fourth that gave Baltimore a 6-4 lead. The second baseman, who was on the injured list for the Orioles\u2019 first 48 games, singled for his first hit before Alonso homered. <\/p>\n<p>Baltimore snapped a three-game losing streak.<\/p>\n<p>Rookie Kevin <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tigers\/status\/2057964523110236191?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">McGonigle hit<\/a> his third homer \u2014 on opener Keegan Akin\u2019s first pitch \u2014 to give Detroit the lead. <\/p>\n<p>Chris Bassitt (4-3) entered in the second and needed seven pitches to retire the side, but Gage Workman and Hao-Yu Lee led off the third with doubles to make it 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>Zach McKinstry\u2019s RBI fielder\u2019s choice and Hao-Yu Lee\u2019s two-out single put the Tigers ahead 4-3 in the fourth.<\/p>\n<p>Leodys Taveras, who doubled in the second, reached on a bunt single to start the bottom of the fourth. Colton Cowser singled to put runners on the corners and Taveras scored on a balk to tie it 4-4. <\/p>\n<p>Flaherty did not have a balk through any of his previous 200 appearances and 1,037 1\/3 innings. He allowed six runs \u2014 three earned \u2014 in 3 1\/3 innings, striking out seven.<\/p>\n<p>Bassitt left in the sixth after a one-out double by Wenceel P\u00e9rez, allowing three runs on six hits in 4 1\/3 innings. Rico Garcia got the final two outs in the fifth, and Yennier Cano and Tyler Wells both pitched a scoreless inning before rookie Anthony Nunez fanned two in the ninth for his third save in five opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Henderson had three of Baltimore\u2019s 14 hits at the start of a season-high, 10-game homestand.<\/p>\n<p>Detroit lost for the 15th time in 17 games and has the majors\u2019 worst road record at 7-20.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Tigers LHP Framber Valdez (2-3, 4.58) starts Saturday opposite Orioles RHP Brandon Young (3-1, 4.25).<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BALTIMORE (AP) \u2014 Pete Alonso homered and drove in four runs, Jackson Holliday added a go-ahead two-run shot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2386],"tags":[14169,143,47,5,796,82,1125,147,53,2583,79,84,1514,11038,4140,4771,1212,9149,4901,4,256,74,28982,185,594,1275,4962,398],"class_list":["post-706330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-detroit-tigers","tag-anthony-nunez","tag-baltimore","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-baseball","tag-brandon-young","tag-chris-bassitt","tag-colton-cowser","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-detroittigers","tag-framber-valdez","tag-jack-flaherty","tag-jackson-holliday","tag-keegan-akin","tag-kevin-mcgonigle","tag-maryland","tag-md-state-wire","tag-mi-state-wire","tag-michigan","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-pete-alonso","tag-rico-garcia","tag-sports","tag-tigers","tag-tyler-wells","tag-yennier-cano","tag-zach-mckinstry"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116622133081624840","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706330","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=706330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}