Alonso Goes 3-for-3 With Two Bombs, BAL Rolls TEX 10-5

Pete Alonso was untouchable Sunday, going 3-for-3 with 2 home runs, 4 RBI, and 3 runs scored as Baltimore dismantled Texas 10-5. Four different Orioles went deep, and the offense never really let Texas breathe.

Baltimore came out swinging from the first pitch. In the opening inning, Beavers reached on an infield single to score Alonso, then Taveras doubled to right to score Holliday, and just like that it was 2-0 before Texas could settle in. The second inning was worse for the Rangers — Cowser crushed a 441-foot shot to center, and then Alonso followed with a 393-foot homer to left that scored Henderson and pushed the lead to 5-0. Jordan Montgomery lasted just 4.0 innings, allowing 6 hits and 3 earned runs, and the damage was done well before he left.

Texas got its best moment — and the game's biggest win-probability swing — in the third. Nimmo launched a 434-foot three-run homer to center, scoring Langford and Duran, cutting the deficit to 5-3 and swinging Texas's home win probability from 11% to 28%. That's the moment the game had a pulse again. But Baltimore answered immediately. Alonso stepped up in the fourth and hit his second homer of the night, a 404-foot shot to left-center that scored Henderson and made it 7-3. That, for all practical purposes, was the ballgame. The story of the night was Alonso refusing to let Texas find any foothold — every time the Rangers showed a sign of life, he personally extinguished it.

The sixth inning added insult when O'Neill went deep 425 feet to center, scoring Holliday and pushing Baltimore to 9-3. Texas managed a cosmetic ninth — Lopez tripled to center to score Cauley, and Duran grounded out to score Lopez — but the final was 10-5, and it wasn't that close. On the pitching side, Baltimore's Yaramil Hiraldo was sharp in his 2.0 innings, allowing just 1 hit and 0 earned runs with 3 strikeouts, though Cade Povich gave back 3 earned runs over 3.0 innings to keep Texas within theoretical range. Cole Winn's 2.0 innings of relief were messy — 3 walks against 3 strikeouts — and the Rangers' bullpen looks like it spent the night trying to contain a flood with a paper cup. Baltimore's offense was relentless, balanced, and frankly dominant.