Orioles rally from six runs down, beat Diamondbacks 9-7 at Camden Yards

For one inning at Camden Yards, the Orioles turned a flat night into a full-throated surge, erasing a six-run hole and beating the Arizona Diamondbacks 9-7 behind Jeremiah Jackson’s power and Pete Alonso’s go-ahead homer. Baltimore trailed 7-1 in the sixth before scoring the final eight runs, a rally that gave the club its sixth win in seven games and lifted it to 9-7.

The turning point came after Arizona had built its lead with home runs from Nolan Arenado and Ketel Marte. Taylor Rashi was the pitcher on the mound when Jackson drove a hanging slider into the left-field seats for a grand slam, bringing roughly 10,000 fans at Camden Yards back into the game. Jackson later added another homer, finishing the night with his first career multi-homer game and supplying the kind of individual burst that can change the feel of an early-season home date in Baltimore.

Baltimore kept pressing in the seventh. Jonathan Loáisiga hit Taylor Ward with a pitch, and Alonso followed with the swing that put the Orioles ahead for good. Jackson then added his second homer to make it 9-7, turning a deficit that had looked daunting into one of the club’s most dramatic wins so far this season. The Diamondbacks, in the opener of their third and final series on a nine-game East Coast swing, could not get the bullpen help they needed to shut the door.

Dean Kremer’s return to the rotation gave the Orioles another important layer to the night. Recalled from Triple-A Norfolk before the game, Kremer started after the club optioned Cade Povich to Norfolk. He allowed three home runs but only two earned runs over five innings, struck out nine and did not issue a walk in his first start of the season after beginning 2026 in the minors.

The game also carried a strange subplot. Orioles manager Craig Albernaz was struck in the face by a 70.6 mph foul liner off Jackson’s bat in the fifth inning, then was escorted down the dugout steps by Taylor Ward and team personnel before being evaluated on-site by team medical staff. Arizona still had its own power numbers, with Arenado and Marte each homering twice, but Baltimore’s comeback and the energy inside Camden Yards left the larger message clear: this Orioles team still has enough fight to turn a bad night into a statement.