O’s can’t get any momentum going
Team strikes out 13 times, collects six hits as Bundy turns in uneven showing
BOSTON – Now that the Orioles put their club-record 13-game road losing streak in the past, they were hoping to start some winning momentum Saturday night in Boston.
Instead, the Orioles — despite matching the Red Sox with six hits apiece — struck out 13 times in a 6-3 loss on a rain-soaked night at Fenway Park.
With the loss, the Orioles (14-31) dropped to 4-18 on the road this season.
Orioles right-hander Dylan Bundy (2-6) had an uneven start, falling victim to the long ball again by allowing three homers. In a three-run Red Sox fifth inning, Bundy allowed back-to-back homers to Mookie Betts and Andrew Benintendi to snap a 1-1 tie.
Bundy has allowed 12 homers in his past five starts after yielding just one in his first TV: Radio: five starts on the season, forcing him to be more efficient with his pitches to get through six innings.
The back-breaker was the two-run blast he allowed to Betts in the fifth, leaving a fastball up in a 2-1 count.
Bundy immediately grimaced as he watched Betts’ major league-leading 15th homer of the season land over the Green Monster.
Bundy labored early, needing 29 pitches to get out of a scoreless first inning after issuing a pair of walks.
He didn’t allow a run until the fourth, when Rafael Devers homered with two outs.
The Orioles failed to break through against Red Sox right-hander Rick Porcello, who was coming off his worst two outings of the season, allowing five runs in back-toback starts.
They loaded the bases against Porcello (6-1) with one out in the third, but scored just one run when Jonathan Schoop hit a sacrifice fly and Chris Davis struck out.
Davis struck out four times Saturday and has strikeouts in each of his last six plate appearances.
Trailing 4-1, designated hitter Pedro Álvarez pulled the Orioles within a run with a two-run homer in the sixth, hitting an opposite-field blast off the top of the high left-field wall and over for his eighth homer of the season.
He trails only Manny Machado’s 14 for the team lead.
Red Sox pitchers ended the game by retiring 11 straight batters after Álvarez’s homer, with five by strikeout.
Hard-throwing rookie lefty reliever Tanner Scott entered the game in the seventh, but started his outing with costly back-toback walks to the Nos. 8 and 9 hitters — Sandy León on five pitches and Jackie Bradley Jr. on four.
Scott retired Betts, but then allowed a two-run single to Benintendi that scored both runners and give the Red Sox (31-15) a 6-3 lead.