Noelvi Marte on Sunday had seven RBIs and hit his first career grand slam with a drive off infielder Jorge Mateo, while Austin Wynn had a career-high six RBIs as the Cincinnati Reds scored their most runs in 26 years in a 24-2 rout of the Baltimore Orioles.
Marte finished with five hits, including his eighth-inning homer off Mateo. Wynn hit a three-run homer in the ninth off catcher Gary Sanchez.
Cincinnati scored its most runs since a 24-12 win against the Colorado Rockies on May 19, 1999, and finished with 25 hits.
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Baltimore allowed its most runs since a 30-3 loss to the Texas Rangers on Aug. 22, 2007.
Marte, the No. 8 hitter, and Wynn, batting ninth, combined for 11 hits, the most from the final two spots in a batting order since at least 1901. Their 13 RBIs tied for second-most since RBIs became an official statistic in 1920.
Forty-one-year-old right-hander Charlie Morton (0-5) — making his fifth start since signing a one-year US$15 million contract for the Orioles, the sixth club of his 18-season major league career — allowed seven runs over 2-1/3 innings in his shortest start since Sept. 22, 2023, a performance that raised the two-time All-Star’s ERA to 10.89 amid continuing command problems.
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“It’s embarrassing. It’s not what you want to do on Easter Sunday in front of your home crowd,” Orioles manager Brandon Hyde said. “You just want it to be over as fast as possible.”
In Milwaukee, the Brewers stole nine bases in a 14-1 victory over the Athletics to break the team’s 33-year-old record for steals in a game.
All of them came in the first four innings. Six were swiped in the first, the first time in the expansion era a team stole that many bases in an inning.
According to Elias Sports Bureau, no team had stolen as many as six bases in one inning since the expansion era started in 1961. A team has stolen five bases in an inning 13 times since 1961, most recently by Cincinnati against Colorado on April 19, 2016.
“Anything that could have gone wrong, I felt like [it] did,” said Athletics starter Jeffrey Springs, who left the game in the fourth inning with a sore right hamstring.
Elsewhere, the New York Yankees blanked the Tampa Bay Rays 4-0, the Seattle Mariners cruised past the Toronto Blue Jays 8-3, the Atlanta Braves cut down the Minnesota Twins 6-2, the Miami Marlins outlasted the Philadelphia Phillies 7-5 in 10 innings, the Cleveland Guardians pipped the Pittsburgh Pirates 5-4 in 10 innings and the Los Angeles Dodgers survived the Rangers 1-0.
The Chicago White Sox rallied to an 8-4 victory over the Boston Red Sox, the Kansas City Royals needed 10 innings to overpower the Detroit Tigers 4-3, the New York Mets beat the St Louis Cardinals 7-4, the Arizona Diamondbacks salvaged a 3-2 win over the Chicago Cubs in 11 innings, the Washington Nationals beat the Rockies 3-2 in their early game and then 3-1 in the evening, the Los Angeles Angels toppled the San Francisco Giants 5-4 and the San Diego Padres took out the Houston Astros 3-2.
Additional reporting by staff writer, with Reuters
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