O’s hand Royals 5th straight loss

BALTIMORE — The Orioles’ latest comeback victory featured an intriguing subplot involving a rookie who made the most of his second chance.

Mark Trumbo and Matt Wieters hit solo homers in the seventh inning to back a sparkling pitching performance by Mike Wright, and the Orioles beat Kansas City 4-1 Monday night to extend the Royals’ losing streak to five games.

Manny Machado also homered for the Orioles, who have won five of six — all in come-from-behind fashion.

Wright (3-3) allowed one run and five hits over seven innings, striking out four and walking two. Just five days earlier, the right-hander gave up four home runs in 2 2/3 innings against Boston and was optioned to the minor leagues less than 24 hours later. But he was recalled the next day when reliever Darren O’Day was placed on the disabled list.

The 6-foot-6 Wright was inserted back into the rotation for this game. Given a “doover” — as manager Buck Showalter labeled it — he shut down the defending World Series champions over seven gritty innings.

“He came out here with a vengeance,” Machado said.

Wright said: “When you get sent down and recalled the next day, I mean, you’ve got to come out and perform. So I definitely had a little more focus and, like he said, a vengeance.”

Wright and Kansas City left-hander Danny Duffy were locked in a scoreless duel until the Royals pushed across an unearned run in the seventh.

Trumbo led off the bottom half with his 19th home run, and Wieters connected with one out to chase Duffy (1-1). Adam Jones capped the uprising with an RBI double.