Orioles set team record of 21 straight games with home run on Jordan Westburg blast vs. Astros

HOUSTON — The home runs just keep on coming.

Jordan Westburg got the Orioles on the board Saturday with a second-inning solo home run against Houston Astros starter Ronel Blanco. Aside from being his first blast in his home state of Texas, Westburg also helped make some team history with the 380-foot shot into the Crawford Boxes at Minute Maid Park.

The homer extended the Orioles’ streak of consecutive games with at least one home run to 21, setting a franchise record.

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— Baltimore Orioles (@Orioles) June 22, 2024

Baltimore tied the record with four home runs in their 14-11 loss Friday night, matching its previous best set from July 17 to Aug. 9, 1998. Five of the players on the Orioles’ 26-man active roster had yet to be born when that record was set.

The Orioles will need to keep the streak alive for the rest of the month — and then some — if they hope to catch the 2019 New York Yankees, who hold the overall MLB record of 31 games in a row with a homer.

The Orioles entered play Saturday with 123 homers, the most in the majors and 10 more than the second-place Yankees. They are the only team with two players who have hit 20-plus home runs (Gunnar Henderson, 24, and Anthony Santander, 20) and one of just two clubs with five players in double digits: Henderson, Santander, Adley Rutschman (14), Westburg (12) and Ryan Mountcastle (10).

After they wrap up their series in Houston on Sunday, the Orioles will return home to host the American League Central-leading Cleveland Guardians and the defending World Series champion Texas Rangers for a seven-game homestand. They hit the road again after that to take on the AL West-leading Seattle Mariners. Baltimore could tie the Yankees’ major league record July 3 at T-Mobile Park and break it July 4. 

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