Justin Masterson has another difficult outing and the surging Orioles win their first road game for new manager Buck Showalter.
View full sizeIndians centerfielder Michael Brantley runs out of room as Felix Pie's 3-run homer sails over the center-field wall at Progressive Field on Tuesday night. Pie's blast over Justin Masterson erased a 6-4 Indians lead and gave Baltimore the lead to stay.CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Buck Showalter's Baltimore Orioles took their act on the road Tuesday night -- and kept on winning.
The Orioles cracked four homers and scored all their runs after the third inning in a 14-8 victory over the Indians at Progressive Field.
Paid attendance: 13,541.
The Orioles (39-74) improved to 7-1 under Showalter, who moved from the ESPN Baseball Tonight studios early last week. They played the first seven games under him at Camden Yards.
Orioles right-hander Jake Arrieta (4-3, 5.29 ERA) earned the victory despite giving up five earned runs on six hits in six innings.
The Indians (47-66) have lost three in a row.
Each Baltimore homer came against a different pitcher: Felix Pie (Justin Masterson), Corey Patterson (Tony Sipp), Matt Wieters (Frank Herrmann) and Luke Scott (Hector Ambriz).
The Wieters blast was part of a four-batter stretch to open the eighth in which the Orioles hit for the cycle off Herrmann. Pie led off with a double. After Wieters went deep, Patterson tripled and Cesar Izturis singled.
Scott, a former Indians farmhand, leads Baltimore with 21 homers.
Trailing, 1-0, through three, Baltimore scored four in the fourth. The uprising was set up when Tribe third baseman Luis Valbuena booted what could have been a double play. Instead, the Orioles put runners on first and second with none out. Scott ripped an RBI double to left-center. Adam Jones followed with an RBI grounder. Later in the inning, Wieters and Izturis had RBI singles.
Asdrubal Cabrera made a terrific defensive play in the fourth. With Scott on third and one out, Pie hit a grounder that bounced off Masterson's foot and toward the hole at short. Cabrera, forced to put on the brakes, slipped to the ground. From a seated position, Cabrera grabbed the ball with his right hand, checked third and threw out Pie.
The Indians answered with five in their half of the fourth. Trevor Crowe had an RBI double, Valbuena an RBI grounder, Michael Brantley an RBI single and Shin-Soo Choo a two-run double. On Choo's hit into the right-field corner, Baltimore relay man Brian Roberts cut down Cabrera at home.
Pie's two-out, three-run homer in the fifth gave the Orioles a 7-6 lead.
Masterson was relieved by Sipp to begin the sixth. Masterson (4-11, 5.47 ERA) gave up seven runs -- four earned -- on six hits. Once again, left-handed batters hurt him.
Patterson turned on a Sipp fastball and homered to right in the sixth.
Baltimore crafted a six-run eighth against Herrmann and Ambriz.
Brantley hit a two-run homer in the ninth. He finished 2-for-4 with three RBI.
Finally:
*Valbuena hit several balls hard. He was robbed in the early innings by right fielder Nick Markakis.
*The Orioles improved to 15-40 on the road.
*Baltimore's 6-9 batters combined to go 8-for-18 with three homers, nine RBI and seven runs.
*The runs allowed by Cleveland were a season-high.
*The Indians notched five extra-base hits (four doubles, one homer). They have at least one extra-base hit in 62 straight games, the longest such streak in the majors this season.