Gunnar Henderson had four hits, including a home run, and the Baltimore Orioles beat the Nationals 7-3 in Washington on Sunday to avoid the three-game sweep.

Henderson had a solo homer, double and two singles, and Coby Mayo and Colton Cowser also homered for Baltimore, which had lost three of four and scored three runs or less in eight of its past nine games.

Anthony Nunez (2-0) worked 1 1/3 scoreless innings in relief for the win.

Jacob Young homered for the Nationals, who were looking for their first home series sweep of the season. James Wood had two hits and a walk.

Henderson, who came in 2-for-20 over his past five games, hit his 10th homer of the season in the first to give the Orioles a 1-0 lead.

Samuel Basallo singled leading off the second and Miles Mikolas replaced opener Richard Lovelady one out later. Mayo capped a nine-pitch at-bat against Mikolas with a two-run shot to make it 3-0.

Lovelady (2-2) was charged with two runs on two hits over 1 1/3 innings.

Young homered in the bottom half to pull the Nationals within 3-1.

In the third, Taylor Ward walked, raced to third on a single by Henderson and scored on Pete Alonso’s sacrifice fly.

Leody Taveras doubled to start the fourth and Cowser hit his first homer of the season to push the lead to 6-1.

The Nationals loaded the bases on a single and two walks with no outs in the fourth. Daylen Lile scored on a Keibert Ruiz sacrifice fly and Wood singled to load the bases with two outs. Nunez, usually a late-inning reliever, replaced starter Brandon Young and struck out Luis Garcia Jr. to end the inning.

Washington pulled within 6-3 in the seventh. Wood singled and went to third on a two-out single by Brady House. CJ Abrams smacked a grounder that deflected off Alonso’s glove at first and rolled across the infield as Wood scored.

Henderson singled home Jeremiah Jackson to make it 7-3 in the ninth.

–Field Level Media

Jake Burger produced a pair of extra-base hits, including a two-run double that ignited a five-run seventh inning, and Nathan Eovaldi twirled seven shutout innings as the visiting Texas Rangers averted a three-game series sweep with an 8-0 victory over the Houston Astros on Sunday.

Burger was the linchpin in the series finale for a flagging Texas offense that totaled one run in the first two games of the series. He finished 2-for-4 with a home run, the double and four RBIs.

Astros right-hander Peter Lambert (2-4) matched zeroes with Eovaldi (5-4) through four innings before Burger swung momentum in the Rangers’ favor with one out in the top of the fifth.

Alejandro Osuna produced an infield single, the first hit Lambert allowed before Burger followed by drilling a 2-1 fastball the opposite way for a two-run homer that snapped a scoreless deadlock. Burger drove his eighth homer this season 356 feet to right field.

Lambert reclaimed control when he retired the next five batters. But Joc Pederson walked to lead off the seventh before Ezequiel Duran (double) and Osuna (hit by pitch) chased Lambert. Burger greeted Astros reliever Cody Bolton with a double to left that doubled the lead to 4-0.

Kyle Higashioka added a single that plated Osuna and Burger. Two batters later, Brandon Nimmo doubled off the scoreboard in left to score Higashioka, who capped the scoring with a homer in the ninth.

Lambert allowed five runs on three hits and two walks with six strikeouts in six-plus innings.

Eovaldi improved to 4-2 with a 2.54 ERA across seven starts in his hometown. He allowed five hits and two walks with a season-high-tying eight strikeouts. He threw 94 pitches, 64 for strikes.

Eovaldi induced an inning-ending double play from Brice Matthews in the third inning, and he stranded runners on the corners when he got Braden Shewmake to fly out to left in the fourth. The Astros fashioned a threat in the seventh when Cam Smith followed a Shewmake double with a walk, but Eovaldi responded with a pair of groundball outs to conclude his stellar outing.

–Field Level Media

Austin Riley and Mike Yastrzemski each hit home runs to lead the Atlanta Braves to an 8-1 victory over the visiting Boston Red Sox on Sunday afternoon.

Atlanta scored in four of the first five innings and cruised to the series-clinching victory, as Grant Holmes pitched six innings, while Reynaldo Lopez and Tyler Kinley combined to worked three innings in relief.

Holmes (3-1) scattered five hits, walked one and struck out four. Lopez followed with two scoreless innings.

Drake Baldwin also drove in two runs for the Braves, who logged eight hits to nine for the Red Sox.

Nick Sogard brought in Boston’s lone run with a ninth-inning double. Jarren Duran went 2-for-5 with a double for the Red Sox, while starter Brayan Bello allowed seven runs on eight hits across five innings.

Atlanta worked a 30-pitch first inning from Bello, while getting a three-run homer from Riley to left-center field.

Four Braves hitters reached base before Bello recorded the first out of the second. Jorge Mateo doubled, Yastrzemski singled and Jose Azocar walked to load the bases. Drake Baldwin walked in a run and Matt Olson brought home a run on a ground out for 5-0 lead.

Holmes stranded baserunners in five of his six innings, including a two-on, one-out jam in the fourth after Willson Contreras doubled and Ceddanne Rafaela walked.

Yastrzemski launched a leadoff homer into the right-field corner in the fourth and Dominic Smith had an RBI single in the fifth.

Back-to-back walks off reliever Red Sox Ryan Watson led to a Baldwin sacrifice fly, extending the Atlanta lead to 8-0 in the eighth.

The Braves were one out away from their fifth shutout of the season, but Connor Wong singled and scored on Sogard’s double into the right-field corner. Sogard was recalled from Triple-A Worcester on Saturday to take the place of injured infielder Trevor Story.

The game entered a 33-minute rain delay in the middle of the sixth inning. Red Sox catcher Carlos Narvaez did not return after the delay after he was diagnosed with finger pain. Wong came in as his replacement.

–Field Level Media