O’s top Angels in 16; Wilkerson makes history with save

Jonathan Villar’s two-out, two-run home run in the top of the 16th inning gave Baltimore the lead, and center fielder Stevie Wilkerson pitched a perfect bottom half of the inning to become the first position player in major league history to record a save as the Orioles beat the Los Angeles Angels 10-8 Thursday night in Anaheim, Calif.The Orioles used 10 pitchers in the game, which lasted 6 hours, 19 minutes. Wilkerson, who played the first 15 innings of the game in center field, threw pitches ranging between 53 and 56 mph to get Brian Goodwin, Kole Calhoun and Albert Pujols in order to seal the win.The Angels also used 10 pitchers in the game, including Griffin Canning, who was scheduled to start Friday’s game but entered in the 15th inning and gave up five runs in two innings and took the loss.Both teams scored three runs in the 15th inning. After the Orioles got a two-run single from Jace Peterson and an RBI single from Hanser Alberto for an 8-5 lead, the Angels rallied in the bottom of the inning against Orioles lefty Tanner Scott.Scott gave up a leadoff single to Pujols, then after striking out Kevan Smith walked three in a row, the third forcing home a run to make it 8-6.Mike Trout followed with a liner into the left field corner, scoring two runs to tie the game. But David Fletcher, trying to score from first on the play, was thrown out at home. The Angels asked for a replay review, but the call was upheld. Scott (1-0) retired Shohei Ohtani for the final out of the inning, sending the game to the 16th.Canning (3-6) retired the first two batters in the 16th before Pedro Severino’s bloop single to left field, his fourth hit of the game. Canning fell behind in the count 2-0 to Villar, who hit an 89 mph slider into the right field seats for the game-winning homer.Calhoun was coming off a big series against the Dodgers, in which he went 6-for-9 with all six hits going for extra bases (four doubles, two homers). He came to the plate with two out and the bases loaded in the seventh to face Orioles lefty Paul Fry with the Angels trailing 2-1.Fry got too much of the plate on a slider that Calhoun hit over the head of Wilkerson in center field, scoring all three baserunners to put the Angels up 4-2.But the Orioles got a couple runs back in the top of the eighth, getting a sacrifice fly from Dwight Smith Jr. and an RBI double by Wilkerson to tie the game at 4-4.Both teams scored in the ninth inning on solo homers, the Orioles getting one from Trey Mancini for a 5-4 lead before Goodwin’s homer in the bottom of the inning tied the game and sent it into extra innings.Beckham slam ignites M’s to romp of TigersTim Beckham hit a grand slam as the Seattle Mariners won consecutive games for the first time in a month by defeating the visiting Detroit Tigers 10-2 on Thursday night.Kyle Seager also homered for the Mariners, who last won two in a row June 25-26 at Milwaukee.Left-hander Wade LeBlanc (6-3) pitched six innings for the win, allowing two runs (one earned) on four hits with one walk and four strikeouts. Right-hander Erik Swanson served as the opener for Seattle, throwing two scoreless innings with three strikeouts and a walk before handing off to LeBlanc.John Hicks homered for the Tigers, who lost their third in a row and are 2-11 since the All-Star break.Tigers right-hander Drew VerHagen (1-1), making his first start of the season, went four innings and allowed seven runs (six earned) on six hits. He walked four, struck out four and hit a batter.The Tigers opened the scoring in the third as Hicks, the first batter LeBlanc faced, hit an 0-1 changeup over the left-center field fence.The Mariners took the lead in the bottom of the inning. Tim Lopes, making his first major league start, led off with a walk and advanced to third on J.P. Crawford’s one-out single to right. Omar Narvaez walked on a 3-2 pitch to load the bases. Daniel Vogelbach then hit a potential double-play grounder to second baseman Niko Goodrum that was bobbled, tying the score and leaving the bases loaded. Beckham then hit an 0-2 pitch over the wall in left field, his 15th home run of the season, to give Seattle a 5-1 lead.The Mariners scored twice more in the fourth as Lopes was hit in the helmet leading off, stole second and scored on Crawford’s triple. Narvaez then hit a run-scoring, ground-rule double to right-center to make it 7-1.The Tigers got a run back in the fifth after loading the bases with no outs on a Goodrum single, Hicks walk and error on second baseman Lopes. Jeimer Candelario’s one-out single drove in Hicks before Miguel Cabrera grounded into an inning-ending double play.Seager greeted left-hander Blaine Hardy by hitting the first pitch in the bottom of the inning over the wall in right-center, his eighth, to make it 8-2.Vogelbach hit a two-run double in the eighth to cap the scoring.