
Adam Jones impressed Baltimore manager Buck Showalter more with his baserunning than his go-ahead home run in the eighth inning. Two innings before Jones put the Orioles ahead to stay in a 3-2 win over the Houston Astros on Thursday, he singled and stopped short to evade the tag and a double play on Chris Davis' grounder. Jones scored the tying run on a single by Steve Pearce, a ball that rolled out of the diving reach of both third baseman Luis Valbuena and shortstop Marwin Gonzalez.
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