{"id":796323,"date":"2026-09-04T09:54:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T09:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/796323\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T09:54:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T09:54:18","slug":"rutschman-homers-twice-in-return-to-baltimore-and-the-red-sox-rally-for-a-6-5-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/796323\/","title":{"rendered":"Rutschman homers twice in return to Baltimore, and the Red Sox rally for a 6-5 victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BALTIMORE (AP) \u2014 Adley Rutschman homered twice in his return to Baltimore, and the Boston Red Sox rallied to beat the Orioles 6-5 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Sogard&#8217;s two-run shot in the eighth broke a 3-all tie. Baltimore led 3-1 after consecutive fourth-inning homers by Luis Robert Jr. and Pete Alonso, but the Orioles had just two hits after that.<\/p>\n<p>Luis De Le\u00f3n (0-2) took the loss. One of Baltimore&#8217;s top pitching prospects, he was called up earlier in the week, and both his appearances have been in the late innings with the game tied. He lost each time.<\/p>\n<p>After a leadoff single by pinch-hitter Jahmai Jones, Rutschman hit a grounder to third. Jones slid hard into to second to break up a double play, and after De Le\u00f3n struck out Wilyer Abreu, Yennier Cano came on.<\/p>\n<p>Sogard hit a drive to right-center field for just his fourth homer of the year and only the second allowed by Cano in 61 appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Roman Anthony added a solo homer in the ninth to make it 6-3.<\/p>\n<p>Erik Miller (4-0) won in relief, and Aroldis Chapman held on for his 31st save in 33 chances despite allowing a two-run homer to Christian Encarnacion-Strand in the ninth.<\/p>\n<p>A month after the Orioles traded the three-time All-Star catcher to Boston, Rutschman went deep in the first and sixth innings. He received a standing ovation from the Baltimore crowd before his first-inning drive to right gave the Red Sox a 1-0 lead. Alonso tied it with a sacrifice fly in the bottom half.<\/p>\n<p>Robert, who was picked up by the Orioles off waivers from the New York Mets, homered for the first time with Baltimore to put the Orioles ahead 2-1. Then Alonso sent a drive to right-center for his 33rd homer of the year. Center fielder Eli White had time to camp in front of the wall and reach up for the ball, but he couldn&#8217;t come up with the catch.<\/p>\n<p>Alonso&#8217;s two RBIs moved him into a tie atop the AL at 94 with Triple Crown hopeful Yordan Alvarez of Houston.<\/p>\n<p>Rutschman&#8217;s sixth-inning homer cut the deficit to one, and then Orioles starter Brandon Young gave up a double to White and an RBI single to Isiah Kiner-Falefa with two outs in the seventh, tying it at 3.<\/p>\n<p>Boston sends Rangers Suarez (5-4) to the mound Friday night against Shane Baz (5-14) of the Orioles.<\/p>\n<p>See AP\u2019s full MLB coverage here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BALTIMORE (AP) \u2014 Adley Rutschman homered twice in his return to Baltimore, and the Boston Red Sox rallied&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2375],"tags":[1079,1113,5,141,48,2542,796,10922,663,1090,2057,12017,54000,369,4,8531,9500,9501,74,9496,9497,22856,39139,88106,83947,88107,86147,88108,22860,89,42869,2543,5144,606,4962,2264],"class_list":["post-796323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boston-red-sox","tag-adley-rutschman","tag-aroldis-chapman","tag-baseball","tag-boston","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-bostonredsox","tag-brandon-young","tag-christian-encarnacion-strand","tag-eli-white","tag-erik-miller","tag-isiah-kiner-falefa","tag-jahmai-jones","tag-luis-de-leon","tag-luis-robert","tag-mlb","tag-nick-sogard","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-pete-alonso","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40778-ap-connecticut-sports-only","tag-product-40779-ap-delaware-maryland-sports-only","tag-product-40790-ap-maine-sports-only","tag-product-40791-ap-massachusetts-sports-only","tag-product-40799-ap-new-hampshire-sports-only","tag-product-40811-ap-rhode-island-sports-only","tag-product-40817-ap-vermont-sports-only","tag-product-40819-ap-washington-dc-sports-only","tag-red-sox","tag-red-sox-orioles-score","tag-redsox","tag-shane-baz","tag-wilyer-abreu","tag-yennier-cano","tag-yordan-alvarez"],"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\/796323","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=796323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}