BALTIMORE \u2014 Gunnar Henderson hit a two-run triple in a four-run seventh inning and the Baltimore Orioles rallied again, this time to a 6-4 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Friday night.<\/p>\n
Pinch-hitter Christian Encarnacion-Strand added a two-run double in the rally off Orion Kerkering (6-1) before Henderson found the gap off Tim Mayza as the Orioles overcame a two-run deficit two days after coming from seven down in a 10-9, 12-inning victory at Detroit.<\/p>\n
Pete Alonso connected on his 23rd home run early for Baltimore, which began Friday 2 1\/2 games behind Cleveland for the final AL wild-card place and finished July with a 15-8 record.<\/p>\n
Josh Walker, Anthony Nunez (3-2) and Yennier Cano combined for 2 2\/3 scoreless relief innings before Tyler Wells worked a perfect ninth for his fourth save.<\/p>\n
J.T. Realmuto and Trea Turner hit solo homers for Philadelphia, which lost its fourth straight and sank to 3-10 since the All-Star break.<\/p>\n
Kyle Schwarber went 1 for 2 with two walks after missing three games with an illness. And rookie Andrew Painter allowed two runs in six innings in his first start since June 17 on a night Philadelphia began still two games ahead of San Diego for the final NL wild card place.<\/p>\n
But a relief corps that entered with the NL\u2019s fourth-worst ERA couldn\u2019t make Painter\u2019s lead hold.<\/p>\n
Jackson Holliday singled and Colton Cowser walked before Encarnacion-Strand came on pulled a 2-2 offering off Kerkering into the gap in left-center.<\/p>\n
Kerkering then hit Alonso on an 0-2 count, and after Mayza entered, Henderson pulled his 2-1 sinker to the base of the right-center wall.<\/p>\n
UP NEXTLeft-handed Phillies ace Cristopher S\u00e1nchez (13-4, 2.74 ERA) looks for his fourth consecutive victory Saturday night, while Orioles right-hander Shane Baz (4-9, 3.98) looks for his first win since June 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BALTIMORE \u2014 Gunnar Henderson hit a two-run triple in a four-run seventh inning and the Baltimore Orioles rallied…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":766872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[47,5,2323,2314,2317,2313,2413,916,19,2310,2328,2304,2318,2308,2319,4,2305,2303,4681,25,1039],"class_list":["post-766871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb-postseason","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-baseball","tag-baseball-events","tag-baseball-finals","tag-baseball-games","tag-baseball-playoffs-and-champions","tag-champion-seasons-in-major-league-baseball","tag-gunnar-henderson","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-major-league-baseball-competitions","tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","tag-major-league-baseball-seasons","tag-major-league-baseball-teams","tag-major-league-baseball-teams-seasons","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-playoffs","tag-mlb-postseason","tag-orion-kerkering","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-world-series"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766871","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=766871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}