HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Brandon Young allowed one run over seven innings, Coby Mayo homered, and the Baltimore Orioles extended their season-best winning streak to seven games by beating the Houston Astros 5-2 on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The streak is the Orioles\u2019 longest since 2023.<\/p>\n
Young (8-2) allowed five hits and one walk while striking out seven, which is one less than his season high. Yordan Alvarez\u2019s third-inning RBI double accounted for the only run he allowed.<\/p>\n
With Young out of the game, Rico Garcia allowed a solo home run to Jose Altuve in the eighth inning. Grant Wolfram pitched a 1-2-3 ninth for his first major league save.<\/p>\n
Gunnar Henderson gave Baltimore the lead with a third-inning RBI single. He made it 2-0 later in the frame when he stole home on a double steal.<\/p>\n
The Orioles finished with a season-high four stolen bases.<\/p>\n
Leody Taveras increased Baltimore\u2019s lead to 4-1 with a broken bat, two-run single in the fifth inning.<\/p>\n
Mayo added his solo homer in the sixth.<\/p>\n
Dylan Beavers was 2 for 4 with a double.<\/p>\n
Orioles\u2019 catcher Samuel Basallo left the game in the second inning due to right shoulder discomfort.<\/p>\n
Houston starter Hunter Brown (1-1) allowed four runs on three hits over 4 2\/3 innings. He issued a career-high six walks and hit two batters.<\/p>\n
Astros pitching combined for seven walks and four hit batters.<\/p>\n
Houston has lost four straight games and seven of its last nine.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/strong><\/p>\n Astros RHP Ronel Blanco makes his season debut against Marlins RHP Janson Junk (4-5 4.57 ERA) in the first game of a three-game series Monday night in Houston.<\/p>\n Orioles RHP Shane Baz (4-9, 4.19) starts against Red Sox LHP Payton Tolle (5-6, 3.11) in the first game of a three-game series Monday night in Boston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Brandon Young allowed one run over seven innings, Coby Mayo homered, and the Baltimore Orioles extended their season-best winning streak to seven games by beating the Houston Astros 5-2 on Sunday. The streak is the Orioles\u2019 longest since 2023. Young (8-2) allowed five hits and one walk while striking out seven, which … Continue reading Young shines over 7 innings as the Orioles stretch their win streak to 7 with a 5-2 win<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1452],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1525862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":true,"date":"2026-07-21 16:40:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[0],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1525862"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1525864,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525862\/revisions\/1525864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1525862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1525862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1525862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}