Ryan Mountcastle belted his fifth home run in seven games against the Oakland Athletics this season, Gunnar Henderson laced four extra-base hits and the Baltimore Orioles completed a three-game road demolition with a 12-1 romp Sunday afternoon.

Kyle Bradish remained unbeaten in August with six innings of two-hit ball, while Jorge Mateo connected on an inside-the-park home run for the Orioles, who completed a 6-3 run through Seattle, San Diego and Oakland.

Mountcastle had first- and third-inning singles in helping Baltimore take an early 4-0 lead, then launched a bomb to left field in the fourth, a three-run shot that blew the game open. The homer was his 17th of 2023.

Along with the five home runs, Mountcastle hit .345 with eight runs and 17 RBIs against the A’s this season.

Mateo’s homer, his seventh, came in the second, and Henderson added his second of the series, his 21st of the year, in the seventh.

Meanwhile, Bradish (8-6) retired the first 10 A’s in order before Zack Gelof singled to right with one out in the fourth. The only other hit Bradish allowed was an infield single by Nick Allen in the sixth.

The right-hander was pulled with a shutout after six, having struck out eight and walked one.

Oakland’s only run came when Brent Rooker greeted reliever Nick Vespi with his 20th homer of the year leading off the seventh.

A’s starter JP Sears (2-10) worked the first four innings, charged with seven runs on nine hits. He walked two and struck out four.

Mountcastle, who has reached base a major-league-high 26 games in a row, finished 3-for-5 with two runs and three RBIs for the Orioles, who outscored the A’s 28-7 in the series. Henderson went 4-for-5 with two doubles and a triple to complement his home run. He scored three runs and drove in a pair.

Adley Rutschman joined Henderson with three runs, while Austin Hays and Ramon Urias matched Henderson with two RBIs apiece for Baltimore. Mateo, Rutschman, Urias and Jordan Westburg each had two hits as part of a 17-hit attack.

Gelof had two of Oakland’s four hits with a pair of singles.

–Field Level Media

Andrew Vaughn homered among his three hits, Lenyn Sosa went deep in a seven-run eighth inning and the Chicago White Sox rallied to beat the Colorado Rockies 10-5 in Denver on Sunday.

Andrew Benintendi also had three hits, Zach Remillard had two hits and Aaron Bummer (4-2) got the win in relief for Chicago, which snapped a three-game skid and denied Colorado a three-game sweep.

Charlie Blackmon homered and tripled and Michael Toglia and Harold Castro also had two hits for Colorado.

Chris Flexen allowed two runs (one earned) in six innings for the Rockies, who led 5-3 after seven before Chicago rallied off reliever Matt Koch (2-1). Benintendi singled, Luis Robert Jr. walked and Vaughn singled to load the bases.

Yoan Moncada hit a two-run double to tie it and chase Koch, who gave way to Justin Bruihl. With one out he intentionally walked Yasmani Grandal, then Oscar Colas made it 7-5 with a two-run double and Sosa hit a three-run homer off Justin Lawrence to cap the inning.

The White Sox took a 2-0 lead on Vaughn’s 16th homer in the second and a throwing error by catcher Austin Wynns in the third.

Blackmon hit his seventh home run of the year off starter Dylan Cease in the bottom of the third, and Colorado tied it in the fourth on Toglia’s RBI single.

The Rockies took the lead in the fifth. Blackmon led off with a line drive into the right field corner and hustled for a triple. Ezequiel Tovar singled to left and was thrown out trying to stretch it to a double.

Ryan McMahon singled, Nolan Jones walked and both moved up on a wild pitch. Castro drove both home with a single to make it 5-2 and end Cease’s day.

Cease allowed five runs on eight hits and struck out six in 4 2/3 innings.

Chicago got a run back in the seventh on Remillard’s RBI double.

White Sox shortstop Elvis Andrus was ejected in the top of the sixth inning by home plate umpire Clint Vondrak for yelling from the dugout.

–Field Level Media

The Brewers handed ace Max Scherzer his first loss with the Texas Rangers as Milwaukee won 6-2 on Sunday to sweep the three-game series between division-leading teams in Arlington, Texas.

Scherzer was 3-0 with 1.80 ERA in his first three Rangers starts since waiving his no-trade clause to join Texas from the New York Mets for top Rangers prospect Luisangel Acuna before the trade deadline.

But this time, Scherzer was done, trailing 3-1, after allowing back-to-back doubles from Tyrone Taylor and Christian Yelich with two outs in the fourth.

Scherzer left after 99 pitches — including 42 in the third — through only 3 2/3 innings. Much of that was due to several foul balls by a patient Brewers offense, as Scherzer walked three and hit a batter in the third.

Scherzer (12-5) hit Willy Adames with the bases loaded to force in Taylor with a run and then walked Rowdy Tellez to bring in Yelich for a 2-0 Brewers lead.

The Rangers cut that lead in half in the bottom of the third when Corey Seager blasted a 436-foot homer, his 23rd of the year, to dead center off Brewers right-hander Adrian Houser.

Milwaukee added some insurance against Rangers closer Will Smith in the top of the eighth when Victor Caratini and Brice Turang scored on Taylor’s stand-up triple into the right-field corner. Carlos Santana then delivered an RBI single up the middle to score Taylor for a five-run lead.

Scherzer gave up just three hits but three earned runs, as he walked four against four strikeouts. On the plus side, Scherzer passed Phil Niekro to move into 11th on the all-time strikeouts list by whiffing Turang to open the third for career strikeout No. 3,343.

Milwaukee’s Houser (5-4) scattered six hits over five innings with one walk and seven strikeouts.

The Rangers pushed across the game’s last run on a groundout from Leody Taveras, scoring Ezequiel Duran in the ninth. Devin Williams recorded the final out to notch his 30th save of the year.

It was the Brewers’ second series sweep of the month and seventh of the season. The Rangers are 4-6 over their last 10 games while Milwaukee has gone 7-3.

–Field Level Media

Kyle Hendricks allowed one run while pitching into the seventh, and Seiya Suzuki and Miguel Amaya each homered, then the Chicago Cubs held on to beat the visiting Kansas City Royals 4-3 on Sunday.

Kansas City wasted no time getting to Hendricks (5-6) in the opening inning. Bobby Witt Jr., who has 44 hits in his last 26 games, singled, stole second and scored on Michael Massey’s hit.

Hendricks, however, settled down to yield just three more hits and walked only one, while striking out three, in lasting 6 1/3 innings.

Down 4-1, the Royals didn’t go down quietly in the ninth. Maikel Garcia’s run-scoring single and Drew Waters’ RBI groundout got them within a run with the tying run on second. However, Adbert Alzolay (18 saves) induced a game-ending groundout from Dairon Blanco, and Chicago won for the 13th time in its last 18 home contests.

That early Royals lead didn’t last long as Chicago scored twice in its half of the first against veteran starter Jordan Lyles (3-14). Nico Hoerner singled and scored when Ian Happ lined a hit and ended up on third base after the ball was booted by center fielder Kyle Isbel. Cody Bellinger followed with a sacrifice fly for a 2-1 Cubs edge.

Suzuki extended the Chicago lead in the fifth with a solo homer, his 12th of the season, well into the left-field bleachers. Rookie catcher Amaya added more insurance when he went deep off Lyles in the eighth for his fourth home run of 2023.

Lyles recorded his third complete game of the season on Sunday, with only two of the four runs earned. The right-hander yielded five hits, a walk and fanned three, but those two homers increased his season total allowed to 30.

Massey and Isbel each had two hits for the Royals, who won the opener of this three-game set, then lost the final two in falling to 17-46 on the road this season.

–Field Level Media