Oakland is still on and has 12 wins in a row

Laureano home runs in the Athletics win.

Lyou Oakland Athletics posted their 12th straight win, their best streak in nearly two decades, after beating the Orioles 3-1 on Friday night. from Baltimore.

Oakland’s streak is the club’s most prominent since it had a franchise-record 20 wins in 2002. This is the Athletics’ third-longest winning streak since moving to Oakland in 1968.

It is also the best run in the majors since Houston won 12 straight games from June 6-18, 2018.

The dominican Ramón Laureano hit a home run and Cole Irvin won back-to-back starts, something he hadn’t done in nearly two years. The Athletics improved to 13-1 since losing their first six games of the season.

Baltimore has lost seven of its last eight home games.

Irvin (2-2) had won straight starts just one time before. It was in the first two starts of his career, in May 2019, with Philadelphia.

After covering six scoreless innings Saturday against Detroit, he canceled the Orioles for five innings. But in the sixth, Baltimore made four singles, capped by an RBI from Pedro Severino, to end Irvin’s night.

Laureano put an end to the work of Puerto Rican Jorge López (1-3) with a solo homer that opened the fifth act.

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