Major League Baseball
Baltimore 6, Minnesota 2
When: 2:10 PM ET, Saturday, July 8, 2023
Where: Target Field, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Temperature: 76°
Umpires: Home - Ben May, 1B - Jeff Nelson, 2B - Ryan Wills, 3B - Mike Muchlinski
Attendance: 27617

Adam Frazier had a two-run single to highlight a six-run second inning as the Baltimore Orioles won their fourth consecutive game, 6-2 over the host Minnesota Twins on Saturday afternoon.

Tyler Wells (7-4) picked up the win, allowing two runs on six hits over six innings for the Orioles, who closed to within 2 1/2 games of first-place Tampa Bay in the American League's East. He walked two and struck out four.

Donovan Solano had three doubles and an RBI, Edouard Julien went 2-for-4 with a double and a run, and Michael A. Taylor had two hits, including a double for Minnesota, which dropped back to the .500 mark. It marked the second time in his career that Solano had three doubles in a game.

Sonny Gray (4-3), who hadn't allowed more than three runs in a start all season, suffered the loss, allowing six runs on six hits over six innings. The All-Star Game-bound Gray, who last picked up a victory on April 30 against Kansas City, walked three and struck out five.

Minnesota took a 1-0 lead in the first when Julien lined a double off the wall in right-center, advanced to third on a groundout by Byron Buxton and then scored on a wild pitch.

Baltimore then had seven straight batters reach base to open a 10-batter second inning while building a 6-1 lead.

Gray issued back-to-back, bases-loaded walks to Colton Cowser and Ramon Urias to put the Orioles in front. Frazier then followed by hitting a bloop single to left to increase the lead to 4-1. Gunnar Henderson and Anthony Santander added RBI singles before Gray got out of the 36-pitch inning by getting Ryan O'Hearn to line out into a double play.

Minnesota cut the lead to 6-2 in the sixth when Buxton singled and then came around to score on Solano's one-out double into the gap into right-center. Wells then rebounded to strike out Max Kepler and Ryan Jeffers to end the threat.

Baltimore finished with just six hits.

--Field Level Media

Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Baltimore   Minnesota
Tyler Wells Player Sonny Gray
Win W/L Loss
6.0 IP 6.0
4 Strikeouts 5
6 Hits 6
3.00 ERA 9.00
Hitting
Baltimore   Minnesota
Austin Hays Player Donovan Solano
1 Hits 3
0 RBI 1
0 HR 0
1 TB 6
.333 Avg .750
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Baltimore 6 0 6 .188 7 6 6 4 0 0
Minnesota 9 0 14 .265 14 7 1 3 0 0