The Sports Xchange
Jun 15, 2017
CHICAGO -- Welington Castillo clubbed his first grand slam and collected a career-high five RBIs as the Baltimore Orioles snapped a six-game losing streak with a 10-6 victory over the Chicago White Sox on Wednesday.
The homer was Castillo's lone hit, and Trey Mancini went 3-for-4 to lead a 13-hit attack for the Orioles (32-32) in a game that started 90 minutes late due to rain.
Baltimore starter Dylan Bundy (7-5) worked five innings, allowing five runs (four earned) on six hits. He walked three and struck out four.
Both starting pitchers were hit for early runs and White Sox right-hander Miguel Gonzalez (4-8) took the loss, departing after five rocky innings. He gave up eight runs on nine hits, walked two and struck out three.
Chicago (28-36) saw a two-game winning streak end.
The White Sox had the bases loaded in the first inning and Tim Anderson -- fresh from a day off -- delivered a hit to left-center to score Jose Abreu and Avisail Garcia.
The Orioles got one run back in the second as Mancini reached on a ground-rule double down the third-base line and scored as Jonathan Schoop lined a double over center fielder Willy Garcia.
Matt Davidson's second home run in two days -- a leadoff shot in the second inning on a 1-1 Bundy pitch -- gave Chicago a 3-1 lead. Davidson, who now has a team-leading 13 homers, hit a grand slam Tuesday.
The White Sox scored twice more in the second inning. Yolmer Sanchez was hit by a pitch, reached third on Melky Cabrera's hit to left and scored when Schoop's throw to third went wide. Cabrera ended up on third and came home on Abreu's sacrifice to right to make it 5-1.
The Orioles added three runs in the fourth, the first coming when Castillo grounded into a bases-loaded fielder's choice that scored Mark Trumbo. The bases remained loaded and Baltimore added two more when Hyun Soo Kim's single to right drove in Mancini and Schoop to cut the deficit to 5-4.
Gonzalez got into another bases-loaded jam in the fifth and Castillo made him pay with a two-out grand slam to center as Baltimore seized an 8-5 lead.
The Orioles added more against White Sox reliever Juan Minaya in the sixth inning. Adam Jones' single drove in J.J. Hardy, and Jones scored on Mancini's two-out hit to left for a 10-5 lead.
Pinch hitter Alen Hanson hit his first career home run in the ninth, on a first pitch from reliever Mychal Givens, to make it 10-6.
NOTES: The Orioles placed 1B Chris Davis on the 10-day disabled list following a right oblique injury suffered on Monday. ... Baltimore called up 1B/OF David Washington from Triple-A Norfolk on Wednesday. He was batting .291 with 10 home runs and 26 RBIs in the minors. ... Orioles RHP Chris Tillman (1-4, 8.01) hopes to break a four-game losing streak as he goes against White Sox LHP David Holmberg (1-0, 2.74 ERA) in Thursday's series ender. ... RHP James Shields is expected to return to the White Sox following rehab work and start Sunday in Toronto. He was 1-0 with a 1.62 ERA in three starts until he landed on the disabled list with a strained back muscle. ... Chicago embarks on a six-game trip that includes stops in Toronto and Minnesota before returning for three games against Oakland, June 23-25. ... The Orioles head back home to open a three-game interleague series on Friday against the St. Louis Cardinals.