The Sports Xchange
May 6, 2017
BALTIMORE-- Trey Mancini and Manny Machado both homered, and Dylan Bundy gave Baltimore another solid start as the Orioles scored a 6-5 victory over the Chicago White Sox on Saturday night.
Mancini hit a two-run homer and added an RBI double as part of a 2-for-3 night. Machado (2-for-4) belted a solo homer as the Orioles (19-10) took an early lead and never trailed en route to a third straight victory.
Bundy (5-1) retired 10 of the first 11 batters he faced before giving up two runs in the fifth and a Cody Asche solo homer in the sixth. The right-hander allowed three runs on six hits over six innings and left with a 6-3 lead.
Jose Abreu hit a two-run homer in the eighth off Mychal Givens to make it 6-5.
Darren O'Day retired the side in order in the ninth as the Orioles are rotating closers with Zach Britton returning to the disabled list. O'Day earned his second save this season.
Chicago starter Dylan Covey (0-3) allowed all six runs, on 10 hits in four-plus innings and struggling the entire time.
The Orioles took a quick 3-0 lead, batting around with five hits in the first inning, after a 43-minute rain delay at the start of the game.
Covey balked in a run with the bases loaded, and Mark Trumbo made it 2-0 with an infield single followed by a Mancini RBI double.
The Orioles made it 4-0 when Machado lined a solo homer to left-center field with two outs in the second.
The White Sox (15-14) cut the lead to 4-2 in the fifth thanks to a sacrifice fly from Melky Cabrera followed by a Leury Garcia RBI single.
But the Orioles answered in the bottom of the fifth when Mancini hit a two-run homer that ended Covey's night and gave Baltimore a 6-2 lead.
NOTES: The Orioles placed LHP Zach Britton (left forearm strain) back on the disabled list (retroactive to May 5). He had an MRI exam, which turned out pretty much the same as before, and now will see a doctor in Los Angeles on Monday. Baltimore also placed RHP Gabriel Ynoa (sore hamstring) on the disabled list and recalled RHP Alec Asher and RHP Logan Verrett from Triple-A Norfolk. ... 3B Todd Frazier returned for the White Sox after missing the last two games with back tightness. He went 0-for-4 and made a diving catch in the third inning.