All the Orioles needed to break their hitting slump was face a budding Cy Young Award contender in one of baseball’s best rotations. Baltimore entered Friday with an 8-4 record in May, but the club’s hitters had their pitchers to thank for that.

Gunnar Henderson’s fourth leadoff homer of the season sparked a five-run first inning that backed an effective pitching performance by John Means and carried the Baltimore Orioles past the Seattle Mariners 9-2.

Gunnar Henderson led off Baltimore's five-run first inning with a home run and the host Orioles went on to defeat the Seattle Mariners 9-2 in Friday night's series opener.

The Orioles welcome the first-place Seattle Mariners for a three-game weekend series starting Friday at 7:05 p.m. Friday's game is the first time these teams square off this season. And although

After batting leadoff in each of the first 40 games of the Orioles’ season, Gunnar Henderson slid down to the cleanup spot on Wednesday. Jordan Westburg moved into the No. 1 hole for the first time in his MLB career and promptly hit a leadoff home run vs.

The Orioles have taken down the Seattle Mariners in the opener of a three-game series. Gunnar Henderson led off the bottom of the first inning with a home run, the first of five runs that the O’s scored in the first.