BALTIMORE (AP) — Ramón Laureano came off the bench and hit two home runs, and the Baltimore Orioles went deep five times in their 9-5 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Saturday.
Cedric Mullins and Gunnar Henderson led off the first with back-to-back home runs off Hunter Greene (2-2), who lasted only three innings and allowed five runs. Jordan Westburg also homered for Baltimore, snapping an 0-for-30 draught with a solo shot in the seventh.
Orioles starter Brandon Young yielded three runs in four-plus innings in his big league debut, and Seranthony Domínguez (2-0) got the win in relief. Félix Bautista came on with two on and got the final three outs for his second save — with Laureano making a leaping catch in left field to end it.
Young allowed seven hits and a walk among his first 10 batters, but a pair of Cincinnati outs on the bases helped him avoid excessive damage. Gavin Lux put the Reds up 1-0 with an RBI single in the first, and after the homers by Mullins and Henderson, Jake Fraley went deep to lead off the second, tying the game at 2.
TJ Friedl had four hits and a walk, including an RBI double in the second that put the Reds up 3-2. Young did not allow a hit after that.
Greene permitted six hits and two walks and also hit two batters. Heston Kjerstad took a fastball at 99.5 mph around the right elbow in the first. Laureano replaced him in the outfield after the second. X-rays on Kjerstad were negative.
Laureano's two-run drive in the third made it 5-3. It was 5-4 before Laureano and Westburg hit consecutive homers in the seventh. Laureano's bid for a third home run fell a few feet short in the eighth when Friedl made the catch in front of the wall in center.
Former Oriole Austin Hays homered in the ninth for Cincinnati.
The Reds left the bases loaded in the fifth and seventh. They had men on first and third with one out in the sixth, but Matt McLain hit into a 5-4-3 double play.
Greene allowed three homers for the first time since Sept. 26, 2023, against Cleveland. ... Laureano became the fifth player in Orioles history to hit two home runs off the bench, and the first since Trey Mancini on June 7, 2017, against Pittsburgh.
Charlie Morton (0-4) starts the series finale for Baltimore on Sunday. Carson Spiers was listed as Cincinnati's starter, but then pitched four innings in relief Saturday.
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Baltimore Orioles starting pitcher Brandon Young delivers during the first inning of a baseball game against the Cincinnati Reds, making his major league debut, Saturday, April 19, 2025, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Alyssa Howell)
Cincinnati Reds starting pitcher Hunter Greene throws during the first inning of a baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles, Saturday, April 19, 2025, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Alyssa Howell)
Baltimore Orioles' Gunnar Henderson, left, high fives teammate Adley Rutschman, right, after hitting a home run in the first inning of a baseball game against the Cincinnati Reds, Saturday, April 19, 2025, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Alyssa Howell)
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia launched a second major drone and missile bombardment of Ukraine in four days, officials said Tuesday, aiming again at the power grid and apparently snubbing U.S.-led peace efforts as the war approaches the four-year mark.
Russia fired almost 300 drones, 18 ballistic missiles and seven cruise missiles at eight regions overnight, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on social media.
One strike in the northeastern Kharkiv region killed four people at a mail depot, and several hundred thousand households were without power in the Kyiv region, Zelenskyy said. The daytime temperature in the capital was -12 C (around 10 F). The streets were covered with ice, and the city rumbled with the noise from generators.
Four days earlier, Russia also sent hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles in a large-scale overnight attack and, for only the second time in the war, it used a powerful new hypersonic missile that struck western Ukraine in what appeared to be a clear warning to Kyiv’s NATO allies that it won’t back down.
On Monday, the United States accused Russia of a “ dangerous and inexplicable escalation ” of the fighting, when the Trump administration is trying to advance peace negotiations.
Tammy Bruce, the U.S. deputy ambassador to the United Nations, told an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council that Washington deplores “the staggering number of casualties” in the conflict and condemns Russia’s intensifying attacks on energy and other infrastructure.
Russia has sought to deny Ukrainian civilians heat and running water in the freezing winter months over the course of the war, hoping to wear down public resistance to Moscow’s full-scale invasion, which began on Feb. 24, 2022. Ukrainian officials describe the strategy as “weaponizing winter.”
In Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, the Russian attack also wounded 10 people, local authorities said.
In the southern city of Odesa, six people were wounded in the attack, said Oleh Kiper, the head of the regional military administration. The strikes damaged energy infrastructure, a hospital, a kindergarten, an educational facility and a number of residential buildings, he said.
Zelenskyy said that Ukraine is counting on quicker deliveries of agreed upon air defense systems from the U.S. and Europe, as well as new pledges of aid, to counter Russia’s latest onslaught.
Meanwhile, Russian air defenses shot down 11 Ukrainian drones overnight, Russia’s Ministry of Defense said Tuesday. Seven were reportedly destroyed over Russia’s Rostov region, where Gov. Yuri Slyusar confirmed an attack on the coastal city of Taganrog, about 40 kilometers (about 24 miles) east of the Ukrainian border, in Kyiv's latest long-range attack on Russian war-related facilities.
Ukraine’s military said domestically-produced drones hit a drone manufacturing facility in Taganrog. The Atlant Aero plant carries out design, manufacturing and testing of Molniya drones and components for Orion unmanned aerial vehicles, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Explosions and a fire were reported at the site, with damage to production buildings confirmed, the General Staff said.
It wasn't possible to independently verify the reports.
Katie Marie Davies contributed to this report from Manchester, England.
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In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, emergency services personnel work to extinguish a fire following a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, emergency services personnel work to extinguish a fire following a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, emergency services personnel work to extinguish a fire following a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, emergency services personnel work to extinguish a fire following a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, emergency services personnel work to extinguish a fire following a Russian attack in Kyiv region, Ukraine, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
