Suárez allows 3 home runs as Orioles lose to White Sox, 8-1

BALTIMORE—For the first two games of their series with the Chicago White Sox, the Orioles outscored the woeful White Sox, 22-3, and extended their losing streak to 12 games.

On Wednesday night, the White Sox won for just the fourth time since July 10^th, beating the Orioles 8-1 before 17,843 at Camden Yards.

The Orioles (81-60) had their three-game winning streak broken.

Albert Suárez (7-5) had a difficult night, allowing six runs on eight hits in 4 1/3 innings. He gave up three home runs, equaling a career high.

Nicky Lopez hit his first home run of the season on Suárez’s second pitch in the first inning, and Gunnar Henderson tied it with a leadoff home run against Jonathan Cannon in the bottom of the first.

It was Henderson’s 35^th home run, setting a team record for most home runs by an Orioles shortstop, surpassing Cal Ripken Jr. (1991) and Miguel Tejada (2004).

It was his 10^th leadoff home run this season, second only to Brady Anderson, who hit 12 in 1996.

That was the Orioles’ only run.

Chicago (32-109) scored three runs in the fourth on Andrew Vaughn’s 18^th home run and Dominic Fletcher’s two-run homer to take a 4-1 lead. Luis Robert Jr.’s RBI double and Lenyn Sosa’s sacrifice fly in the fifth extended the lead to 6-1.

Cionel Pérez allowed two ninth inning runs. The White Sox had 15 hits.

Cannon (3-9) allowed one run on five hits in 5 2/3 innings.

The Orioles won the first six games of the season against Chicago, had just two hits in 3 1/3 innings against Fraser Ellard, Gus Varland and Justin Anderson.