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- Updated: August 19, 2016
BALTIMORE — The Orioles used six home runs — including two each from J.J. Hardy and Chris Davis — on Thursday to blast their way back into a second-place tie with the Red Sox in the American League East.
Baltimore roughed up red-hot Astros rookie Joe Musgrove, tagging him for eight runs in a 13-5 series-opening win at Camden Yards.
Hardy and Davis — who had been in quite the slump — were joined by Manny Machado and Mark Trumbo in the homer brigade. Trumbo, who set a career high with 35 homers, got the O’s off to a 3-0 start with his first-inning blast off Musgrove.
“That was a byproduct of a lot of good at-bats, a lot of counts. … It’s one night, but I think there was a lot of frustration there. I don’t know if frustration is the right word, but [we got] back to what we’re capable of doing,” Orioles manager Buck Showalter said. “[Musgrove has] been pitching real well. Tonight he had some command problems with the breaking ball, left some where he wasn’t trying to get them, and our guys, seems like a while now, we weren’t getting many mistakes, and when we were, we weren’t as consistent with making them pay as we were tonight.”
Orioles starter Kevin Gausman went 6 2/3 innings and struck out eight, allowing homers to Alex Bregman and A.J. Reed.
“It was great. The guys came out, and I tried to bring some excitement that first inning, and really, from then on, you could tell that they were going to come out hacking,” Gausman said of watching his lineup work. “You’re always one pitch away with this lineup, especially when you get guys on base tonight like we had.”
Houston has now lost five straight games and dropped 6 1/2 games behind in the AL Wild Card chase.
“They just continued to come at you,” Astros manager A.J. Hinch said. “They do that in this ballpark. They’re very comfortable. They do a lot of damage. This is how you score. We didn’t keep them in the ballpark at all the entire night. It turned out to be a long night, for sure.”
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