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BALTIMORE -- Rick Porcello and the Boston Red Sox appear poised to extend their late-season charge deep into October.Porcello pitched a four-hitter for his major league-high 21st victory, David Ortiz and Mookie Betts hit two-run homers and Boston beat the Baltimore Orioles 5-2 on Monday night to pad its lead in the AL East.Coming off a four-game sweep of the Yankees, the Red Sox extended their surge in the opener of an important four-game series for both clubs. Boston has won 10 of 13 and stands atop the division by a season-high four games.Its never over until its over, but were definitely going to try to increase the gap between us and them, Porcello said.Adam Jones homered and Mark Trumbo picked up his 102nd RBI for the second-place Orioles, who started the day with a one-game lead over Toronto for the top AL wild card.Weve got three more here against (the Red Sox), Baltimores Manny Machado said. Well just put it on a track where we need to be.Bostons goal over the next three days will be to put away the Orioles for good.Were going to try, Ortiz said.Porcello (21-4) struck out seven and walked none in his third complete game of the year. Five days earlier against Baltimore, the right-hander gave up one run in eight innings but took the loss.In this one, he threw only 89 pitches -- 65 in the strike zone.When its his day on the mound, he sets the tone for us, manager John Farrell said. Did once again.Porcello has allowed three runs or fewer in 11 straight starts and is sure to receive strong consideration for the AL Cy Young Award after going 9-15 last year.All of us are honored to be mentioned for those awards, he said. But Ive been saying it all year, our focus is winning and what we want to accomplish as a team.Playing his final regular-season series in Baltimore, the 40-year-old Ortiz connected against rookie Dylan Bundy (9-6) with a man on in the fifth for a 5-1 lead. It was his 35th home run of the season and the 53rd of his career against the Orioles.When he finally walks away from the game, Ortiz will certainly miss taking his cuts at Camden Yards.Yeah, man, its just super nice. I like it, he said, especially when its warm like it is.Betts put Boston up 2-0 with his 31st homer in the third. It was his eighth home run in seven games at Camden Yards -- most in a season by a Red Sox in a visiting ballpark since Jimmie Foxx hit eight in St. Louis in 1939.Porcello retired the first 11 batters before hitting Machado with a pitch in the fourth. Trumbo followed with an RBI double.The Red Sox responded with a three-run fifth. Dustin Pedroia snapped an 0-for-12 skid with a run-scoring single before Ortiz launched a 1-1 pitch over the 25-foot scoreboard in right field.Jones homered in the eighth, his 28th.TRAINERS ROOMRed Sox: RHP Steven Wright (shoulder) has started a throwing program at the teams spring training facility in Fort Myers, Florida, but Farrell did not give an estimated date for his return. Wright (13-6, 3.33 ERA) last pitched on Aug. 31. . Farrell said OF Andrew Benintendi has been cleared to play in back-to-back games. He returned from a left knee sprain last Tuesday.Orioles: OF Steve Pearce will have surgery to repair flexor tendons in his right forearm in New York on Wednesday and is expected to be out 4-6 months. Baltimore placed Pearce on the 60-day DL on Sunday. . 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TUKWILA, Wash. -- Jordan Morris arrived in Seattle last winter with so much hype that meeting the lofty expectations was going to be difficult.Thats why its not simple to define Morris rookie season that included flashes of brilliance, stretches when he disappeared on the field and ultimately helping the floundering Sounders go from the bottom of the Western Conference to again finding themselves in the MLS playoffs.The Sounders rise to an eighth straight playoff appearance could come to an abrupt end Thursday night against Sporting Kansas City in the knockout round of the MLS playoffs. Seattle lost both of its matches against Kansas City this season, losing 1-0 in the season opener at home before a 3-0 loss on the road in July that proved to be the final match before Sigi Schmid was let go as head coach.I think this is a different group. Its definitely different than the game in July, Seattle interim coach Brian Schmetzer said.Whether Seattle can get past Kansas City may depend on how well Morris plays.Morris heads into his first postseason as the team leader with 12 goals and a role that has evolved throughout the season.When he signed in February, Morris was going to work in concert with the duo of Clint Dempsey and Obafemi Martins at the top of Seattles attack.Before the first match of the season, that plan changed after Martins left the Sounders for an offer in China . That put even more expectations on Morris to make up for Martins absence offensively and those hopes weighed heavily on Morris during a scoreless first month of the season.At the start of the year it was tough, he said. A lot of expectations and when I wasnt scoring those first few games people were giving mee a lot of stick.dddddddddddd I read too much into it at the beginning of the year and it definitely affected me. But after that I decided to not look into any of that stuff and just focus on what I could do to help the team. I think that helped. I didnt read Twitter anymore or all that stuff. I let that go.What helped turn Morris was an early-season conversation with Schmid. Schmid told Morris -- who turned 22 on Wednesday -- that it didnt look like he was having fun. And truthfully, he wasnt. He was hearing the criticism that he wasnt worthy of the hype.He was like `you need to have fun. It needs to be the right balance of working hard and having fun, Morris said. I think that conversation was good. It kind of changed how I thought about things and to go out there and have more fun after that.Its helped that Morris has been counted on to be more of a factor in the latter half of his rookie season than anyone anticipated. Dempseys season suddenly ended in late August due to an irregular heartbeat. Thats put more of the offensive responsibility on Morris to control the game at the top of Seattles formation.Morris has played at least 89 minutes in 10 of the past 11 games and while hes without a goal since Sept. 25, Morris back-heel assist last Sunday against Real Salt Lake gave Seattle the exact start it needed in a must-win game.(Were) a determined team, strong team defensively, good goalkeeping, very good midfield play. Jordan, hes a good player, Schmetzer said. We will cause teams problems because were a team, because the team believes they can win. ' ' '