Boston wins rain-shortened game, sweeps two-game series

Orioles right-hander Dylan Bundy was eventually going to have a rough night. It happened tonight against the highest-scoring team in the majors.

Bundy allowed career highs with nine hits and five runs over 4 1/3 innings as Boston beat the Orioles 8-1 at Camden Yards. The game was shortened to six innings, called after a rain delay of 1 hour, 17 minutes.

The Red Sox sweep the two-game series as the Orioles fall into third place, two games back of Toronto and one back of Boston in the American League East.

Bundy had allowed just three runs in 18 2/3 innings over his previous three starts, and just 10 hits and a batting average against of .125 his previous four starts. But Boston hit two homers off him tonight as he walked two and fanned two, throwing 89 pitches. He falls to 6-4 with an ERA of 3.36. The Red Sox went 9-for-22 against him tonight.

Boston took a 1-0 lead in the second. Jackie Bradley Jr. was hit by a pitch with one out. He advanced to second on Brock Holt's single and scored on a single by Travis Shaw, whose hit ended a 1-for-21 stretch. O's left fielder Hyun Soo Kim made a diving catch with the bases loaded to end that frame at 1-0.

Struggling O's right fielder Chris Davis blasted a Eutaw Street homer down the right field line in the second to tie it at 1-1. Davis hit No. 25 on a first-pitch changeup from David Price. It was the 86th Eutaw Street homer in Camden Yards history and 38th by the Orioles. It was the ninth of his career by Davis, the most by any player.

Davis, who is second in the majors with 184 homers since 2012, has hit 25 or more homers for five consecutive seasons.

On the second out of the third inning, the Orioles got a scare when Bundy fell on the mound and looked to have twisted his right ankle while trying to field a grounder up the middle. He stayed in the game, but the next four batters reached and Bradley homered to move Boston ahead.

But the 1-1 tie didn't hold as Bradley's two-run homer to center in the third made it 3-1. He drilled No. 20, which went 412 feet, to break the tie. It scored Mookie Betts, who had walked with two outs and no one on base.

In the fifth, Sandy Leon's two-run shot to right-center made it 5-1. He smoked a Bundy changeup 443 feet. Brock Holt followed with a double and Tyler Wilson replaced Bundy. Boston added three runs in the sixth off Wilson. Bradley doubled in two more for a four-RBI night.

The Orioles fall to 66-53 overall, 39-19 at home and to 26-21 against the AL East. The Houston Astros come to town Thursday night to begin a four-game series. Right-hander Kevin Gausman (3-10, 4.04 ERA) pitches against right-hander Joe Musgrave (1-0, 1.47 ERA).