Orioles’ Jackson Holliday, Pete Alonso homer in 7-4 victory over Tigers
BALTIMORE — There’s no place like home. Jackson Holliday made his Camden Yards season debut Friday and greeted Orioles fans with a go-ahead, two-run home run in the fourth inning to help lead Baltimore to a 7-4 win over the Detroit Tigers. Holliday, who reached base three times and scored twice, put Baltimore (22-29) ahead for good with his blast off former Oriole Jack Flaherty.
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BALTIMORE — There’s no place like home. Jackson Holliday made his Camden Yards season debut Friday and greeted Orioles fans with a go-ahead, two-run home run in the fourth inning to help lead Baltimore to a 7-4 win over the Detroit Tigers. Holliday, who reached base three times and scored twice, put Baltimore (22-29) ahead for good with his blast off former Oriole Jack Flaherty.
The ball landed just inside the left-field foul pole and traveled 337 feet, the shortest home run hit to left field at Camden Yards since the start of the Statcast era (2015) and tied for the ballpark’s third shortest to any direction. Statcast determined it still would’ve been a home run in 12 stadiums across MLB. Holliday, 22, returned from the injured list Monday during the Orioles’ road series against the Tampa Bay Rays and he went 0 for 4 across two games.
He started at second base Friday, batting ninth for just his second start of the season after he missed the first two months recovering from a fractured hamate bone in his right hand. His home run chased Flaherty from the game, and he left with six runs (three earned), eight hits, zero walks and seven strikeouts charged against him. Pete Alonso also launched his 10th homer of the season — that one good for 391 feet — to drive in three runs in the third, and Flaherty balked in a run one batter before Holliday in the fourth.