Three bats, three homers, one loud night
Gunnar Henderson, Pete Alonso and Christian Encarnacion-Strand each collected three hits on Tuesday. Each of them also went deep. Baltimore rode that trio to a 5-2 win over the Twins in Minneapolis, turning a road stop into a statement.
It is not every night that three players in the same lineup finish with three hits and a home run. The Orioles managed exactly that, and the Twins had no reply once the long balls started leaving the yard.
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Young keeps Minnesota quiet
Brandon Young set the tone on the mound. The right-hander worked six innings, allowed two runs with only one earned, and scattered six hits to improve to 9-3. He handed the game to a bullpen that closed it out without drama, and Andrew Kittredge locked down the ninth for his sixth save.
Minnesota never strung enough together against him. Brooks Lee did his part with a 2-for-4 night and a run-scoring double, but the Twins could not build on it. Bailey Ober took the loss, tagged for five runs on eight hits across six innings, and fell to 7-4.
Baltimore keeps swinging
The win keeps the Orioles’ bats trending the right way at the right time. Henderson remains the engine of this lineup, Alonso brings the kind of pop that changes a scoreboard in one swing, and Encarnacion-Strand joining the barrage only makes Baltimore harder to plan around. Nights like this are how a lineup builds belief.
The Twins managed just two runs at home and watched three different hitters beat them the same way.
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