Boston scores two in the 11th to rally and beat O's (with quotes)

The Boston Red Sox picked up a win important to their AL East title hopes. The Orioles just added another loss and more frustration.

Boston trailed by five runs in the fifth inning tonight, but rallied to tie the game and then won it 10-8 in 11 innings over the Orioles. Now 86-64, they stay three games ahead of the Yankees for first place. The Orioles fall to 73-78 with their 10^th loss in the last 12 games. This was the start of the final homestand of the year.

After he pitched a 1-2-3 tenth, right-hander Miguel Castro walked the bases loaded (with one intentional) with two outs in the Boston 11^th. The count went to 2-2 on Andrew Benintendi. Then he grounded a sinker into right for a two-run single and the lead.

The Red Sox improved to 14-3 in extra innings games while the Orioles fell to 12-3. Boston leads the majors in extra innings wins. The game took four hours and 24 minutes.

Down by 7-6, the Orioles scored twice in the fifth to take an 8-7 lead. They tied it 7-7 on a Pedro Álvarez 394-foot homer to the flag court in right, his first of the year. Austin Hays followed with a grounder off the glove of Rafael Devers at third and scored on Tim Beckham's double to left.

But that O's lead did not hold for long. Xander Bogaerts' solo homer to left in the seventh off Donnie Hart tied it, 8-8. He hit No. 9 on a changeup.

The Orioles scored runs in the first four innings to take a 6-1 lead to the top of the fifth. But then Boston produced a big inning and knocked right-hander Dylan Bundy out of the game. Boston scored six runs on six hits in the fifth to lead 7-6. The inning featured Brock Holt's two-run single that made it 6-2 and Mookie Betts' three-run double to left for the 7-6 lead.

Bundy had sailed through the first three innings on one hit and 34 pitches. But he gave up a run in the fourth before the big inning knocked him from the game. Over 4 1/3 innings he gave up seven hits and six runs, one off a career high. His ERA went up from 4.03 to 4.24. Bundy had gone 4-1 with a 2.74 ERA over his previous seven starts.

The Orioles led 1-0 in the first on a Jonathan Schoop RBI grounder after a Beckham walk and Manny Machado's single. They added three in the second. Right fielder Hays doubled with the bases loaded to score two runs. His grounder up the middle hit the second-base bag and caromed into left. Machado's sac fly later in the inning made it a 4-0 lead on Boston starter Doug Fister. Welington Castillo's sac fly in the third made it 5-0.

The teams exchanged runs in the fourth. An Adam Jones RBI single made it a 6-1 O's lead until the fifth inning put the Red Sox ahead.

The Orioles have not lost a series against Boston this year, tying three and winning two. They fall to 10-7 in the season series and 4-4 at Oriole Park.

Postgame quotes

Bundy on if fatigue is a factor late in year, and on Showalter saying he will not be shut down: "I mean, it could yeah, but it doesn't matter. It's September, everybody is tired right now. So, you have to battle through it and work on it in my next bullpen and get ready for the next one. I'll be ready to throw on my next day to throw and throw my bullpen in between and be ready for my next game."

Bundy on allowing a big inning after a strong start to his night: "Just that one inning. Kind of let things slip away from me and didn't really limit the damage very well obviously. Just leaving balls over the middle of the plate and they made me pay for them.

"I think I got kind of lucky those first three innings. They were hitting some balls right to people and the defense was playing awesome all night. So I think it was a little bit of false reading right there. I was leaving pitches over the middle of the plate and they were hitting them right to guys and then in that fifth inning, they weren't hitting them to those guys anymore. You've just got to limit the damage there and I didn't."

Castro on his scoreless 10th and allowing two in the 11th: "I think that the biggest difference was [in] one, I was locating my ball, making my pitches, and in the other one, things were not as good as I thought they were."

Castro on if he is tiring late in the year: "The thing that I notice is that sometimes I lower my arm angle too low, and that gets me in trouble (with command), but that's just an opportunity to improve and get better and work at it. I'm ready to go. This is my job. I'm available whenever I'm called, so I'm ready to go."

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