San Diego Padres at Baltimore Orioles

Gunnar Henderson entered Friday on a 14-game homerless streak. That also meant the Orioles shortstop’s career home run total was stuck at 99. On Friday night, Henderson finally hit No. 100. Henderson went deep during the fourth inning of Baltimore’s series-opening 7-3 win over San Diego at Camden Yards, blasting a solo shot to the right-field flag court that extended the O’s lead to 7-2. It was Henderson’s first long ball since he homered twice during an 11-2 win over the Rays on May 27. Did Henderson realize he had been sitting on 99 over the past two-plus weeks? “I had an idea, but I never obviously looked it up to get a hard, ‘All right, I’m at 99,’” Henderson said. “I had a pretty good idea. But yeah, never really fully guaranteed myself that I knew I was at 99.” It may have been a bit of a wait of late, but Henderson reached this milestone at a blistering pace, given he’s not even 25 yet. At 24 years and 348 days old, Henderson became the fourth-youngest player in Orioles history to hit 100 home runs with the team. That put him behind only Manny Machado (24 years, 55 days) -- who started at third base for the Padres -- Eddie Murray (24, 177) and Boog Powell (24, 264). There are only five O’s players who have gotten to 100 for the club before turning 25 -- those four as well as Cal Ripken Jr. (24, 356). Henderson’s milestone homer came in his 567th career game. The only three players to debut with Baltimore and reach 100 home runs in a fewer number of contests were Anthony Santander (526), Trey Mancini (531) and Powell (564). “I feel like it's just a cool achievement. The game of baseball, obviously, it's cool to get to that number,” Henderson said. “But hopefully, a lot more coming.”