Dylan Beavers went 2-for-5 with three RBIs and Gunnar Henderson finished 3-for-5 with two RBIs for the visiting Baltimore Orioles, who hung on for an 8-7 win against the Chicago White Sox on Tuesday.
Dean Kremer (10-10) allowed two runs on four hits in 5 2/3 innings for the Orioles, who have won two in a row after a three-game skid. He struck out four and walked three.
Shane Smith (6-8) was tagged for six runs on nine hits in 4 1/3 innings as the White Sox dropped their fifth straight. Smith walked one and fanned seven.
Baltimore broke a 2-2 tie in the fourth and grabbed its first lead of the game. After Coby Mayo hit a one-out single to center, Samuel Basallo connected on a curveball, sending it 420 feet just inside the right field foul pole to put the Orioles ahead 4-2.
In the fifth, Baltimore’s Jeremiah Jackson drove a leadoff double down the left field line and Henderson knocked him in on a single to center to make it 5-2. With one out, Beavers tripled to deep right field to bring Henderson around and extend the gap to 6-2.
Beavers increased it to 8-2 in the seventh inning, belting a two-run homer to right-center.
Chicago struggled to get on base after the first inning before finally breaking through in the eighth against reliever Chayce McDermott. Chase Meidroth scored on a wild pitch, and Lenyn Sosa singled, driving in Miguel Vargas and Mike Tauchman to narrow it to 8-5, ending McDermott’s brief outing. Andrew Benintendi then put a fastball from Rico Garcia over the wall in center to pull the White Sox within one.
The White Sox opened the scoring in the bottom of the first. Meidroth led off with a single and Kyle Teel followed with a home run to center field for a 2-0 lead.
The Orioles tied it in the third. Dylan Carlson doubled, Jackson drove him in with a double to cut it to 2-1, and Henderson brought Jackson in with a single to left.
Keegan Akin worked around a one-out single by Meidroth in the ninth inning to earn his sixth save.
