BALTIMORE—On Labor Day, the Orioles put their bats to work and scored their most runs since June 20th, 13 runs on 18 hits and eight walks on their way to a 13-3 win over the Chicago White Sox before 35,906 on Monday.
It was the second consecutive win for the Orioles (80-59), and the 11th straight loss for the woeful White Sox (31-108), who have dropped 41 of 45 and are on their way to the worst record in modern baseball history.
Chicago took a 2-0 lead in the first inning, but the Orioles scored 11 unanswered runs, and they could have scored many more. They left 16 on base.
Corbin Burnes (13-7), who won for the first time since August 4th, allowed two run, one unearned, on six hits in five innings, walking one and striking out four.
Burnes allowed singles to the first two White Sox batters in the first. A botched pickoff throw by first baseman Ryan O’Hearn led to the unearned run.
Gunnar Henderson hit his 34th home run, tying Cal Ripken Jr. (1991) and Miguel Tejada (2004) for most home runs in a season by an Orioles shortstop. It was the Orioles’ 12th leadoff home run of the season, tying the club record set in 1996 when Brady Anderson hit all 12. It was the ninth hit by Henderson.
The Orioles took the lead in the third on an RBI single by Anthony Santander and a run-scoring double by Austin Slater against Chris Flexen (2-14).
A throwing error by reliever Fraser Ellard led to two runs, one of them a sacrifice fly by Henderson, who drove in his third run on an infield out in a six-run sixth.
In the sixth, the first six Orioles reached and scored. Slater drove in two runs with a single, and third baseman Emmanuel Rivera had a two-run triple.
After Cole Irvin allowed a run in the top of the eighth, Cedric Mullins hit a two-run home run, his 14th, to make it 13-3.
Irvin worked the final three innings to record the second save of his career, his first with the Orioles.