HOUSTON (Interstat) — Brandon Young pitched seven strong innings and Coby Mayo homered as the Baltimore Orioles defeated the Houston Astros 5-2 on Sunday afternoon at Daikin Park, completing a three-game sweep. Young allowed one earned run on five hits with seven strikeouts to improve to 8-2. Grant Wolfram earned his first save with a scoreless ninth. Baltimore took a 2-0 lead in the third on Gunnar Henderson’s RBI single, but Houston answered in the bottom half on Yordan Alvarez’s RBI double. The Orioles added two more in the fifth on Leody Taveras’ two-run single and one in the sixth. Jose Altuve homered for Houston in the eighth. Mayo hit a solo home run earlier. Baltimore outhit Houston 6-7. The Orioles improved to 49-51, while the Astros fell to 47-54. The game lasted 2:58 before a crowd of 28,936. Hunter Brown took the loss after allowing four earned runs in 4 2/3 innings.