BALTIMORE — Dean Kremer combined with four relievers on a five-hitter, and the Baltimore Orioles beat the Los Angeles Angels 1-0 Saturday for their first seven-game winning streak in five years.
Baltimore is on its longest winning streak since seven in a row from Aug. 7-13, 2017. The Orioles are 28-20 after a 14-24 start are closed within 3 1/2 games of a wild-card berth.
Los Angeles dropped to 1-7 on a nine-game trip, and at 38-48 is a season-worst 10 games under .500. The Angels are 14-35 since a 24-13 start and have 14 runs in their last eight games.
Kremer (3-1) allowed two hits and three walks in five innings and tied a career-high with seven strikeouts. He has pitched shutout ball in four of his last five starts, lowering his ERA to 2.15.
Bruce Zimmermann, Joey Krehbiel, Felix Bautista and Jorge Lopez followed, with Lopez retiring Kurt Suzuki on a game-ending flyout with a runner on second for his 16th save in 20 chances.
Angels Manager Phil Nevin returned following a 10-game suspension. He exchanged lineup cards before the game with his son, Tyler, an Orioles rookie third baseman, who went 1 for 2 with a walk.
WHITE SOX 8, TIGERS 0: Johnny Cueto allowed five hits over eight innings, Gavin Sheets hit a three-run homer an Chicago won at home, ending Detroit’s season-high six-game winning streak.
Cueto (3-4) and José Ruiz combined on a six-hitter in the 11th shutout against the Tigers this season. Cueto struck out five and walked none in the longest outing by a White Sox pitcher this season.
Kody Clemens, a son of Roger Clemens who usually plays left field or the infield, threw a 1-2-3 eighth for Detroit in his second big league pitching appearance.
INDIANS 13, ROYALS 1: Jose Ramirez hit his first home run in nearly a month, rookie Nolan Jones connected for an impressive first homer of his career and visiting Cleveland stopped a five-game skid.
The Guardians totaled a season-high 23 hits and led 11-0 after four innings. Amed Rosario homered off Royals center fielder Michael Taylor in a two-run ninth.
RANGERS 9, TWINS 7: Marcus Semien hit a tiebreaking RBI triple in the eighth inning after earlier being part of back-to-back homers with Corey Seager, and Texas won at home.
PHILLIES 1, CARDINALS 0: Kyle Gibson kept the ball in the park this time against the Cardinals, Alec Bohm broke a scoreless tie with a sacrifice fly in the ninth inning and Philadelphia won at St. Louis.
Gibson, tagged for four straight home runs by St. Louis in the first inning in his previous start, combined with a pair of relievers on a two-hitter.
The Phillies have won three in a row and five of their last six.
Gibson gave up two hits and walked none in seven innings.
A week earlier in Philadelphia, Gibson allowed consecutive home runs by Nolan Arenado, Nolan Gorman, Juan Yepez and Dylan Carlson. It was the first time in major league history a team homered four straight times in the first inning.
BRAVES 4, NATIONALS 3: Austin Riley homered off Patrick Corbin, Kyle Wright pitched seven-plus innings to win his 10th game, and Atlanta held on for a win at home.
The defending World Series champions moved a season-high 16 games over .500 and improved to 28-8 since June 1. They began the day 2 1/2 games behind the New York Mets in the NL East.
DIAMONDBACKS 9, ROCKIES 2: Madison Bumgarner pitched six effective innings, Josh Rojas had three RBI, and Arizona won at home.
Bumgarner (5-8) gave up Kris Bryant’s third homer in two games in the first inning but was sharp after that. He allowed two runs on six hits and struck out five to pass Catfish Hunter (84th) and Dan Haren (83rd) on baseball’s all-time strikeout list with 2,014.
PIRATES 4, BREWERS 3: Ben Gamel hit a two-run homer to cap a four-run seventh inning and Pittsburgh rallied for a win at Milwaukee.
Pittsburgh was held to one hit through six innings by Brewers starter Brandon Woodruff before erasing a three-run deficit in the seventh.
METS 5, MARLINS 4: Tomás Nido hit a tying double with two outs in the 10th inning and scored the winning run on a throwing error by reliever Tanner Scott, and New York rallied to beat visiting Miami.
Pete Alonso homered and Francisco Lindor lined a two-run shot for the NL East leaders, who overcame injuries to right fielder Starling Marte and catcher James McCann in the middle innings.
REDS 5, RAYS 4: Kyle Farmer scored the tying run on a wild pitch and Nick Senzel hit a game-ending single as Cincinnati rallied in the 10th inning for another walk-off win, beating visiting Tampa Bay.
A day after scoring the winning run on a 10th-inning balk, the Reds posted their fourth walk-off victory in their last eight games. They had none in their first 77 games.
Farmer started the Reds 10th on second base as the automatic runner. He took third on Matt Reynolds’ single, and Colin Poche (2-1) threw a wild pitch that made it 4-all. After Donovan Solano singled, Senzel won it.
NOTES
RANGERS: Mitch Garver will have season-ending surgery to repair a torn flexor tendon in his throwing arm and will miss the remainder of the season.
Garver, a catcher, has been limited to being a designated hitter and has been unable to catch or throw since early May because of the right forearm issue that was bothering him long before then.
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