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Alvarez continues tear with 2 HRs for O’s
- Updated: August 6, 2016
CHICAGO — A red-hot Pedro Alvarez homered twice, and Baltimore used a three-run third inning to beat former Oriole Miguel Gonzalez and the White Sox, 7-5, in Friday’s series opener at U.S. Cellular Field.
The win keeps the O’s tied atop the American League East standings with the Blue Jays.
Gonzalez, who was released by Baltimore this spring, was charged with four runs (three earned) on 10 hits and a strikeout over six innings.
“There was definitely some adrenaline going,” Gonzalez said. “Felt good, felt good overall.”
“Again, you are looking at some guys who can swing the bat and are familiar with him,” White Sox manager Robin Ventura said. “I think there’s a stretch there where he was pitching pretty good, and they got to him a little bit. But I thought he battled.”
Alvarez homered off Gonzalez in the second inning and also went deep in the eighth, bringing his total to six homers over his past five games. It marked Alvarez’s third multi-homer game of the year and his second in four days.
“He’s just getting comfortable,” Orioles manager Buck Showalter said of Alvarez, who signed as a free agent this spring. “The first time you’ve been with one organization your whole life and signed [somewhere else] and what have you, there’s a period you go through. We try to be patient and realize there’s an adjustment that human beings have to make. … We have a very welcoming and atmosphere. So, I think that works well for us.”
Jose Abreu homered for the White Sox, with Avisail Garcia doubling in a run off starter Yovani Gallardo in a two-run fourth. Gallardo went six innings allowing only those runs.
The White Sox rallied against O’s setup man Darren O’Day in the eighth, loading the bases and scoring a pair of runs before chasing him from the game. With Logan Ondrusek pitching, the Sox ran themselves out of the inning, when Dioner Navarro was thrown out at third base by first baseman Chris Davis after Adam Eaton grounded out. The play held up …
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